Michael Busch, a Foreign Policy In Focus contributor, teaches international relations at the City College of New York and serves as research associate at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies. He is currently working on a doctorate in political science at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
The Foreign Policy in Focus Wikileaks authority interviews the Nation’s WikiLeaks authority, Greg Mitchell.
Over the years, Texaco, now owned by Chevron, dumped nearly 20 billion gallons of toxic sludge in the jungle.
Rewarding body count, during wartime or not, is a recipe for mass murder.
A tale of two helicopters.
Once Latin America’s safest city, Monterrey has become a central battlefield in Mexico’s war drug war.
However irrational, Gaddafi was capable of both prescience and irony regarding his region’s politics.
Washington seeks to beat Europe to the punch on the sale of jets to Bulgaria.
A lack of qualms about torture once helped recommend new Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman to the CIA.
His Excellency President Professor Doctor adds threatening to behead gays to his other human-rights violations.
Though nationalized, Venezuela’s oil still relies on foreign know-how.
Restrictions on comings and goings from Gaza may be threatening the financial stability of Hamas.
Norway divests itself of holdings in companies that violate humanitarian principles.
Bin Laden’s latest threat prompted the release of WikiLeaks cables on his rise.
Chinese premier Hu Jintao may not be as powerful as the world thinks.
The best and brightest attempt to leave the country.
Alvaro Colom keeps Hugo Chavez at arm’s length.
U.S. diplomats branch out into making Armenia’s roads safe.
The revolution will not be tweeted.
Political realities are forcing Iran’s President Ahmadinejad to abandon his hard-line public rhetoric in private.
Bulgaria’s perfunctory efforts to corral organized crime frustrate the European Commission.