United Nations

The Fall of Homs

The rebels may have retreated, but the revolution goes on.

BY MICHAEL WEISS | MARCH 1, 2012

Brazil's New Swagger

South America's emerging superpower is coming into its own. But with great power comes great responsibility.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Winning Ugly in Venezuela

How Hugo Chávez is painting his opponent as a gay, Zionist Nazi out to destroy the country. 

BY PETER WILSON | FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The Trojan Paradox

If religious conservatives want to put a stop to abortions, there's no better tool than making contraception a lot more available. And there's a world of good it'll do.

BY CHARLES KENNY | FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Obiang's Booby Prize

In France, UNESCO may finally reject the African dictator's vanity prize; in the United States, his high-spending son fights to keep feds from seizing a Malibu mansion.

BY KEN SILVERSTEIN | FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Don't Count on a Syria Intervention

In the end, Americans just aren't interested in getting involved in promoting democracy overseas.

BY SCOTT CLEMENT | FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The League of Extraordinarily Bureaucratic Gentlemen

Can DC Comic’s new comic book series make the U.N. look cool -- or at least effective?

BY COLUM LYNCH | JANUARY 26, 2012

Internationally Supercharged

The U.N. has a long history of comic heroes and villians.

BY KEDAR PAVGI | JANUARY 26, 2012

The World According to Ron Paul

Republicans are freaked out about what a libertarian isolationist in the White House would do to American power -- but not all Democrats are.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | DECEMBER 23, 2011

The LWOT: U.N. tightens sanctions on Eritrea

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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | DECEMBER 6, 2011

A Friend in Need

Can disaster aid actually win hearts and minds?

BY CHARLES KENNY | OCTOBER 31, 2011

Up in Smoke

Did the idea of a legal war die along with Muammar al-Qaddafi?

BY SCOTT HORTON | OCTOBER 25, 2011

Did Qaddafi's End Justify the Means?

How Libya changed the face of humanitarian intervention -- an FP roundtable.

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Follow the Money

A simple reform created for stopping terrorist financiers could dramatically strengthen international sanctions, and cut off the flow of funds to some of the world’s worst regimes.

BY STUART LEVEY, CHRISTY CLARK | OCTOBER 3, 2011

Where Do We Go from Here?

Five things that Palestine could do to push forward the quest for statehood.

BY HUSSEIN IBISH | SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

When They Were Kings

The United Nations has long been a playground for bad boy dictators. But there are a few notables who won't be making the trek to New York for the festivities and powwows this week.

BY COLUM LYNCH | SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Punitive Measures

The coming Palestinian statehood push at the United Nations is a train wreck. But with the U.S. Congress promising punishment for this effrontery, it's not just Palestinians who will come away grievously injured.

BY JAMES TRAUB | SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Humpty Dumpty Palestine

Even if the United Nations grants Palestine statehood this September, it's far from looking -- or acting -- like a real, functioning state.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Train Wreck in Turtle Bay

Palestinian leaders are headed for a dangerous confrontation at the U.N. that will only leave everyone worse off. Can anyone stop this runaway train?

BY ZIAD J. ASALI | SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Humanitarian Inquisition

Does success in Libya prove that the "responsibility to protect" works, or has it opened a Pandora's box of shaky precedent?

BY DAVID BOSCO | SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The Cowboy Abroad

We know plenty about what Rick Perry, the GOP's newest presidential front-runner, thinks of America. But what about the rest of the world?

BY ERICA GRIEDER | AUGUST 24, 2011

Two Plus Two Equals Five

What numbers can we trust? A second look at the death toll from some of the world's worst disasters.

BY PHILIP WALKER | AUGUST 17, 2011

The Black Hawk Down Effect

We all know what went wrong the last time the international community tried to end a crisis in Somalia. But we've forgotten what went right.

BY JOHN L. HIRSCH | AUGUST 12, 2011

The Palestinians' Imaginary State

A majority of the world's countries are gearing up to recognize a Palestinian state in September. But does Palestine really qualify?

BY STEVEN J. ROSEN | AUGUST 3, 2011

Interview: Rajiv Shah

The USAID administrator on the epic food crisis in the Horn of Africa, dealing with al Shabab, and why Somalia's famine is going to get worse before it gets better.

INTERVIEW BY ROBERT ZELIGER | JULY 28, 2011

Famine Is a Crime

Civilization has defeated mass starvation. So why are so many Somalis dying of hunger?

BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 25, 2011

Cambodia's Kangaroo Court

Why isn't the U.N. tribunal to prosecute genocidal Khmer Rouge war criminals going after more bad guys?

BY MIKE ECKEL | JULY 20, 2011

Cambodia's Moment of Truth

Thirty-two years after the fall of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodia finally confronts its horrific past.

BY PHILIP WALKER | JULY 20, 2011

Bashir's Choice

The brutal means that the Sudanese president has used to keep his country together have instead blown it apart in the most chaotic way possible.

BY JAMES TRAUB | JULY 8, 2011

From Khartoum to Juba

Images of Sudan and its people on the eve of the country's division.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY TIM MCKULKA | JULY 7, 2011