International Relations
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
Georgia's Electoral Showdown
Emotions are running high as Georgians vote in a watershed parliamentary election.
BY JAMES KIRCHICK | OCTOBER 1, 2012
A New Model for Foreign Aid
How the Millennium Challenge Corporation is changing how America helps the world's poor.
BY DANIEL W. YOHANNES | SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
The Problem with Patriotism
The dispute over islands in the East China Sea is stirring up nationalist passions in the region. That doesn't bode well for the future of democracy.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
It's Time to Act in Syria
Yes, it's true: Military involvement in Syria has its risks. But the costs of non-intervention are growing by the day.
BY MARK N. KATZ | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
The Gang That Can't Shoot Straight
The Syrian National Council has failed to galvanize international support for the rebellion -- and it has only itself to blame.
BY MALIK AL-ABDEH | SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
Learning Europe's Lessons in Africa
Why five East African countries are trying to follow in the European Union's footsteps -- minus the common currency.
BY BLAIR GLENCORSE AND CHARLES LANDOW | SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
Tensions in September
BY RACHEL DOBBS | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
The Time for Action
The Obama administration has backed itself into a corner in Syria, a crisis with few good options. But the endgame is clear, at least, and the time to get involved has come.
BY JAMES TRAUB | AUGUST 31, 2012
Pretty Vacant
After three empty days in Tampa, the Republican Party seems out of ideas on how to run America's foreign policy.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | AUGUST 31, 2012
Sound and Sensible
Mitt Romney’s foreign policy would echo the best of America’s bipartisan traditions. But the desperate Obama caricature of it is just a sad indication of how much the president has failed.
BY PETER D. FEAVER | AUGUST 30, 2012
A Dangerous Mind
Mitt Romney’s foreign policy isn’t an afterthought, it’s a frightening return to a bullying neoconservative ideology -- and Americans should be worried.
BY BRUCE W. JENTLESON, CHARLES A. KUPCHAN | AUGUST 30, 2012
August Heats Up
Follow the events of August 1962, as Cold War tensions continue to unfold in the run-up to the Cuban missile crisis.
BY RACHEL DOBBS | AUGUST 2, 2012
The Angry Lightweight
What's worse than not having a coherent foreign policy? Mouthing off about it.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JULY 31, 2012
The End of the Affair
Four years after Barack Obama's landmark Berlin speech, the transatlantic alliance is fading fast. What went wrong?
BY MARK LEONARD | JULY 24, 2012
Word Is Bond
Has President Obama kept Candidate Obama's campaign promises?
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JULY 23, 2012
The Bully from Brazil
South America's superpower is shoving its weight around across the continent -- and the natives aren't exactly thrilled.
BY JEAN FRIEDMAN-RUDOVSKY | JULY 20, 2012
"The Elite Isn't Going to Lose Control"
Middle East scholar Joshua Stacher explains why democratization in Egypt is only skin deep.
BY PAUL STAROBIN | JULY 19, 2012
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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