International Relations
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
Blood Law
Does it matter that the Red Cross now says Syria is technically in a state of "civil war"?
BY DAVID RIEFF | JULY 17, 2012
July in Focus
The events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis as the Soviet military buildup in Cuba gathered momentum exactly half a century ago.
BY RACHEL DOBBS | JULY 17, 2012
Not Quite the Holy Grail
The changing global picture of foreign direct investment.
BY PETER PASSELL | JULY 13, 2012
Talking a Great Game
So far, Washington's pivot to Asia has included a lot of work on security and trade. Democracy, not so much.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 11, 2012
Moscow's Marines Head for Syria
The Russians have dispatched a naval task force to Syria. As if the place wasn't enough of a mess already.
BY MARK KATZ | JULY 10, 2012
Dereliction of Duty
A new U.N. report has highlighted Rwanda's responsibility for continuing conflict in the Congo. Washington's inaction is an outrage.
BY JEFFREY TAYLER | JULY 10, 2012
Latin America's Paraguayan Hangover
Some Latin American leaders have peculiar ideas about what constitutes an assault on democratic principles.
BY MAC MARGOLIS | JULY 9, 2012
Arafatuous
Al Jazeera's new investigation into the not-so-mysterious death of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat is little more than baseless speculation.
BY HUSSEIN IBISH | JULY 5, 2012
Fortress America
Playing the new Cold War board game is a trip back to the 1980s. So why is the theme of an America being invaded still so popular?
BY MICHAEL PECK | JULY 3, 2012
Unipolar Disorder
Why are American voters so all over the place when it comes to foreign policy?
INTERVIEW BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JULY 3, 2012
Reach Out to Morsy
Egypt's new president may be no moderate, but he deserves a chance to prove he's no enemy.
BY YOSSI BEILIN | JULY 2, 2012
The Court of Last Resort
Will the ICC's next decade see the court expand the stop-start gains of its first 10 years?
BY RICHARD DICKER | JUNE 29, 2012
Battle Rial
To end Iran's nuclear program, it's time for America to step up its economic warfare.
BY MARK DUBOWITZ | JUNE 28, 2012
U.S. admits droning four Americans (but just one deliberately)
BY J. DANA STUSTER
Charts: What inequality looks like around the world
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Wait, there are riots in Sweden?
BY ELIAS GROLL
What is the U.S. really doing in Syria?
What we know so far about the brutal attack in London
BY ELIAS GROLL
The newspaper article that has shaken up Ugandan politics
BY JACKEE BATANDA
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