International Relations
The Dream Team
Barack Obama's election triumph is only days old, but already the buzz has shifted from the horserace to the coming shakeups among his top aides and cabinet secretaries. To help the president out, we asked seven top thinkers to select the brain trust that Obama should have at his side as he retools his foreign policy for a second term.
NOVEMBER 8, 2012
Nightmare Squared
Longing for the days of Kim Jong Il? Maybe it's time to transfer your affections to the delusional dictator of Equatorial Guinea.
BY PEDRO PIZANO | NOVEMBER 6, 2012
The Transatlantic Test
Europe is facing an existential crisis, and it's time the United States recognized it.
BY HEATHER A. CONLEY | NOVEMBER 5, 2012
The Angry Pacific
Why the United States is not ready for conflict in Asia.
BY MICHAEL J. MAZARR | NOVEMBER 2, 2012
The Amphibian
How Barack Obama learned to cover his right flank -- and his left.
BY JAMES TRAUB | OCTOBER 26, 2012
Georgia Versus the Forces of Chaos
In the wake of this month’s watershed election in Georgia, a new prime minister and an incumbent president are figuring out how to keep their personal enmity from breaking into open warfare.
BY MOLLY CORSO | OCTOBER 26, 2012
Why Is Qatar Mucking Around in Gaza?
Doha's meddling in Palestinian affairs is much more about Iran than it is about Israel.
BY DAVID B. ROBERTS | OCTOBER 25, 2012
Can't We All Just Not Get Along?
Why a decade of war hasn't provoked a real debate about America's role in the world.
BY JOHN A. GANS JR. | OCTOBER 24, 2012
The Spymaster
Eleven questions for Israel's legendary Efraim Halevy.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | OCTOBER 24, 2012
Caught in the Crossfire
If the United States wants to save Lebanon, it should get off the sidelines and help topple Bashar al-Assad's bloody dictatorship.
BY FIRAS MAKSAD | OCTOBER 22, 2012
What Else Is On?
Why the foreign policy debate just can't get at the real differences between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | OCTOBER 22, 2012
The Man Who Brought the Black Flag to Timbuktu
A new Islamist strongman has taken the stage in North Africa. His rising power is giving him a lot of bad ideas.
BY WILLIAM LLOYD-GEORGE | OCTOBER 22, 2012
The Pivot to Economics
The State Department is hard at work integrating economics into U.S. foreign policy.
BY HEIDI CREBO-REDIKER | OCTOBER 19, 2012
Swiss Cheese
The EU's "strong" sanctions on Iran are full of holes, but might they be enough to prevent the U.S. going to war?
BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | OCTOBER 18, 2012
The Ground Truth from Benghazi
The politicians in Washington are beating each other up over the Benghazi consulate attack. But they don't seem to be paying much attention to the evidence from the scene of the crime.
BY CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN | OCTOBER 16, 2012
To Leave or Not to Leave
President Hugo Chávez’s victory in the presidential election has some Venezuelans wondering whether it's time to leave.
BY DANIEL LANSBERG-RODRIGUEZ | OCTOBER 16, 2012
A Revolutionary Foreign Policy
The Muslim Brotherhood's political party promises to transform Egypt's place in the world.
BY AMR DARRAG | OCTOBER 16, 2012
Writing’s on the Wall for Argentina
Cristina de Kirchner has brought her country to the brink of the abyss.
BY DANIEL ALTMAN | OCTOBER 15, 2012
The New Sheriff in Town
At an outpost on the Turkish-Syrian border, rebel fighters are the law.
BY SARAH A. TOPOL | OCTOBER 12, 2012
Of Myths and Missiles
What Les Gelb gets wrong about the Cuban missile crisis.
BY STEPHEN SESTANOVICH | OCTOBER 12, 2012
Is Iraq an Iranian Proxy?
Inquiring minds want to know.
BY SAFA AL-SHEIKH, EMMA SKY | OCTOBER 11, 2012
The Sanctions Conundrum
Some say the sanctions against Tehran are working. But wasn't the Iranian economy already a basket case?
BY PETER PASSELL | OCTOBER 9, 2012
The Currency of Power
Want to understand America's place in the world? Write economics back into the plan.
BY ROBERT ZOELLICK | NOVEMBER 2012
Declinist Pundits
America may not actually be declining, but those predicting it are ascending.
BY JOSEPH S. NYE | NOVEMBER 2012
The Myth That Screwed Up 50 Years of U.S. Foreign Policy
It's time to set the record straight about John F. Kennedy's handling of the Cuban missile crisis.
BY LESLIE H. GELB | NOVEMBER 2012
Better Late than Never
How naive self-confidence led Barack Obama astray, before prudence brought him back.
BY JAMES TRAUB | OCTOBER 5, 2012
No Exit
For the first time in many years, Venezuela’s presidential election is raising the possibility of an electoral defeat for Hugo Chávez. But if he loses, does that mean he’ll go?
BY DANIEL LANSBERG-RODRIGUEZ | OCTOBER 4, 2012
An Idealist on Death Row
Why the desperate fate of a little-known Sudanese human rights activists poses some fundamental questions about what it means to be human.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | OCTOBER 3, 2012
The Case for Humility
Why Israel and the United States should keep their disagreements to themselves.
BY DAVID MAKOVSKY | OCTOBER 2, 2012
The indispensable nation's indispensable weapon
BY JAMES TRAUB
Why Obama hasn't exactly won the war on homegrown terrorism
BY JANE HARMAN
Did Turkey just become a little more like Texas?
BY MARYA HANNUN
Was the killing of a British soldier in London actually an act of terrorism?
BY H.A. HELLYER
WikiLeaks hits back at documentary with 'annotated transcript'
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Mystery solved: John Kerry really ate turkey shwarma
BY MARYA HANNUN
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