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.
Bush’s ambassador to Zimbabwe believed freedom would ring there.
WikiLeaks documents to show U.S. support for Kurd group classified as terrorists.
Spying on the United Nations is one tradition that the State Department should let die out.
American assessments of foreign leaders make up the juiciest parts of the latest WikiLeaks document dump.
The WikiLeaks documents will not exactly do wonders for Yemen’s regional relationships.
Engagement with an Ahmadinejad-led Iran is a lose-lose proposition to the Arab Middle East.
Turkey fears American military action more than Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Immigation is, in a sense, a compliment to a country, which, in turn, needs to learn how to repay it.
Suspicion has been cast on Kurdish-dominated security forces offering sanctuary to Iraqi Christians.
Does President Obama have enough political capital to lead the Middle-East peace process?
Invading Nicaragua for its transgressions against Costa Rica is a little, uh, premature.
It wasn’t long before microlending was corrupted by usury.
Concern for its burgeoning elderly population may explain China’s monetary policies better than competition with the West.
Thailand extradites Viktor Bout to the United States.
Bout has more to tell the United States than it wants to hear.
But road blocks toward a functioning government in Iraq are still being thrown up by Sunni politicians.
Using violence to thwart genocide may just add fuel to the fire.
A new U.S. law requires that companies doing business in the Congo and adjoining countries disclose the provenance of the minerals transacted efforts taken to ensure armed groups don’t profit.
Mac McClelland, author of the new book ‘For Us Surrender is Out of the Question,’ talks about why the media is missing a major story in Burma.
At stake in El Salvador’s movement to ban mining is the question of whether private interests can trump national sovereignty.