Ian Williams is a senior analyst whose work has written for newspapers and magazines around the world such as the Australian, The Independent, New York Observer, The Financial Times and The Guardian.
Ian Williams

Ian Williams is a senior analyst whose work has written for newspapers and magazines around the world such as the Australian, The Independent, New York Observer, The Financial Times and The Guardian.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon is under attack. The critics are missing his many achievements.
The Obama administration must take this report on atrocities committed during the Gaza War very seriously.
Serbia, not NATO, was responsible for the human rights violations in Kosovo.
Almost all of the proposals to reform the UN are worse than the situation they purport to remedy.
The United States is often, but not always, wrong, and its enemies are sometimes, but not always, right.
The UN secretary general has taken a forceful position on the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
The UN secretary general has taken a forceful position on the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
We asked FPIF’s senior analysts to weigh in on the future course of American foreign policy: maintenance of empire or its rejection?
Obama should act now to change the U.S.-Israel relationship while Gaza is still burning and before it’s time to campaign for reelection.
It’s time for the UN to step up to the plate and help resolve the conflict.
Was the United States too hasty in recognizing the new state of Kosovo? Ian Williams and Stephen Zunes have different takes.
Kosovo has declared its independence from Serbia. But there are still a few obstacles in the path of statehood.
The United States should not abandon Taiwan at its time of need, argues Ian William.
Ban Ki Moon’s first six months as UN Secretary General have registered on the low decibel end of the scale.
China wants Taiwan, Taiwan wants independence, and Ian Williams wants you to know why Taipei has a more compelling argument than Beijing.
Ian Williams explains why rum is the true global spirit, with its warm beating heart in the Caribbean.
The glass of UN reform is more than half full, despite the best efforts of the United States and John Bolton.
The meeting between the UN, the Coalition, and the Iraqi Governing Council on 19 January suggests that the harsh realities of an election year in the U.S. may be making elections more feasible in Iraq.
On the face of it, Tony Blair had an almost Clintonesque week as he walked away from two separate train wrecks seemingly unhurt.
The International Court of Justice??s advisory opinion on the legal consequences of the Israeli Wall in the Occupied Territories is a triumphant vindication of the Palestinian decision to get their case heard there, and of their long term strategy of underlining and restating their legal rights.