Foreign Policy in Focus

President Obama is trying to sell free trade agreements as win-win deals. The problem is that most people will only win dubious prizes.

Disarming Iran will entail much more than the threat of a military intervention.

New Haitian President Michael Martelly may be hitting the right notes, but Haitians have seen politicians break plenty of promises before.

The time may be at hand when Myanmar’s ethnic minorities can overwhelm the Myanmar army.

A growing number of people around the world believe that China will eventually surpass the United States as the world’s premier superpower, if it hasn’t already, according to the latest survey of 22 countries released here Thursday by the Pew Global Attitudes Project.

And here’s the saddest thing: the Bush administration’s most extreme ideas when it comes to Global War On Terror are now the humdrum norm of Obama administration policies — and hardly anyone thinks it’s worth a comment.

What makes Iran’s nuclear program controversial is Iran’s political identity as a state or who Iran is or what it stands for.

China is modernizing its navy, but is it really about to build a network of overseas bases?

Let’s hope that, unlike with Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors, bias against Fukushima refugees will be kept to a minimum.

What will we say when other governments follow our example by providing immunity from prosecution to torturers?

The United States is spending even more of its GDP on Afghanistan than did the Soviet Union.

Increase in defense spending a symptom, in part, of bad economy.

Flush with victory from the passage of the anti-BDS bill by the Knesset, Israel’s two main parties are pushing new bills to limit dissent and debate within Israel.

The U.S.-trained Iraqi commando corps — arguably one of the Iraq War’s few success stories — may be misused or dissolved when the U.S. leaves.

Award-winning journalist Jeremy Scahill discusses the growing use of mercenaries by the United States government.

The United States wants to negotiate with the Taliban from a position of strength. But reining in Afghan government corruption, not applying ever more military pressure, is the key to gaining a strong hand.

President Obama is reversing his earlier commitment to a new kind of trade relationship with the world by pushing three ill-conceived FTAs.

Will the British government take advantage of the News Corp. scandal to root out the corruption in the relationship between the media, politicians, and the police?

There is a sense that Italians are holding their breath.

You think the 1985 Pressler amendment — which banned most U.S. aid to Pakistan unless U.S. certified it had no nuclear weapons — made Pakistan mad?