U.S. Foreign Policy

The Art of Snore

Can't we get some better defense ideas for $1.75 billion a day?

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | JANUARY 2, 2013

Does the GOP Need a New Foreign Policy?

Can the Republican Party survive without coming to terms with the Bush-Cheney years? FP's Shadow Government team weighs in.

JANUARY 2, 2013

The Year in Intelligence

And the most important national security story you missed in 2012.

BY AMY ZEGART | JANUARY 2, 2013

Dear John

John Kerry can be a great secretary of state. Here's how.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | JANUARY 2, 2013

Midnight in Havana

Will the Cuban government fall in 2013?

BY YOANI SÁNCHEZ | JANUARY 2, 2013

Think Again: The Republican Party

The future of the GOP -- after the debacle.

BY DANIELLE PLETKA | JANUARY 2, 2013

We're All Declinist Pundits These Days; Recession-Proof

FP's "Who Won the Great Recession?" package elicits reflections on U.S.-China power dynamics and how to succeed in business during hard times.

JANUARY 2, 2013

Currency War

Debating Robert Zoellick's vision for reintegrating economics into U.S. foreign policy. 

JANUARY 2, 2013

The Year the Arab Spring Went Bad

Hopes for a democratic Middle East have faltered amid sectarian animosities and ideological divisions. Did it have to be this way?

BY F. GREGORY GAUSE, III | DECEMBER 31, 2012

The Year in Quotes

The 20 most puzzling, hypocritical, and revealing things said about U.S. foreign policy in 2012.

BY MICAH ZENKO | DECEMBER 28, 2012

Is It Over Yet?

Haunting photos of a year in the life of the war America is still fighting.

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Wanted: A Few Good Leaders

Fewer veterans are serving in high office in the United States. It's no coincidence that America is going off the rails.

BY PAUL V. KANE | DECEMBER 27, 2012

Feeling the Pain in Tehran

As sanctions bite, some of Iran's leaders are signaling a willingness to come back to the negotiating table.

BY NAZILA FATHI | DECEMBER 21, 2012

The Midlife Crisis of Bangladesh

Bangladeshis want a reckoning with their bloody past. But they can do it without partisanship?

BY JOSEPH ALLCHIN | DECEMBER 21, 2012

Exit the Conciliator

Will Iraq fall apart if its president dies?

BY PETER W. GALBRAITH | DECEMBER 21, 2012

A Network of Dictators

There's a fight brewing for the future of the Internet.

BY JAMES A. LEWIS | DECEMBER 21, 2012

Running Hills

Why senators shouldn't head the Pentagon or Foggy Bottom.

BY GORDON ADAMS | DECEMBER 20, 2012

Syria's Time Is Running Out

The country tears itself further apart with each passing day. This is the moment to do something about it.

BY FREDERIC HOF | DECEMBER 19, 2012

Untouchable

Why Hillary Clinton is the Teflon secretary.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | DECEMBER 18, 2012

'These Guys Are Thugs'

Opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei speaks exclusively to Foreign Policy on the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's political crisis.

Interview by DAVID KENNER | DECEMBER 18, 2012

Don't Blame Obama for Syria

What's happening in Syria is a tragedy. But John Hannah needs to recognize that the civil war was never ours to win or lose.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | DECEMBER 14, 2012

Hagel Unchained

Why do neocon Republicans hate Chuck Hagel so much? Because of what he would do as secretary of defense.

BY JACOB HEILBRUNN | DECEMBER 14, 2012

5 Reasons the Japanese Elections Matter

The results of Sunday's contest could rock the global economy and destabilize Asia. Maybe the world should pay attention?

BY MICHAEL CUCEK | DECEMBER 14, 2012

Secretaries of Safe

Obama’s likely national security picks are going to reinforce his innate caution -- for better and for worse.

BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 14, 2012

Chuck Hagel Wants to Be Dwight Eisenhower

We read the senator's 2008 book on defense so that you don't have to.

BY J. DANA STUSTER | DECEMBER 14, 2012

Did Russia Just Throw Assad Under the Bus?

Not really. Watch what the Kremlin does, not what it says.

BY ANDREW S. WEISS | DECEMBER 13, 2012

Known Unknowns

Why even bad predictions are good for America.

BY ROSA BROOKS | DECEMBER 13, 2012

Ripe for Rivalry

Has Asia's moment of reckoning finally arrived?

BY VICTOR D. CHA | DECEMBER 12, 2012

Patience Has Not Been a Virtue

Was the Obama administration to blame for North Korea's rocket launch?

BY DARYL G. KIMBALL | DECEMBER 12, 2012

Rocket Backstage

Behind the scenes of North Korea's nuclear deliberations.

BY ANDREA BERGER | DECEMBER 12, 2012