Foreign Policy in Focus

The crisis of people-trafficking and sexual exploitation in Northeast Asia is not a nationalist issue; it is a gender issue.

Were the Syrian rebels to win, how different would their rule be from Assad’s?

The charade of “generous offers” to the Palestinians.

With endless foreign aid, the US has undercut mechanisms of democratic accountability in Afghanistan and should not be surprised at the results.

A year ago, the European Court of Human Rights mandated that Slovenia pay compensation to the 25,000 people stripped of residency in the wake of the country’s independence.

After 40 years of exile and too many broken hearts, it’s long past time we let the Chagossians go home.

To beef up the U.S. military presence in Africa to provide security for oil and natural-gas sources, the U.S. needed to either amplify the terrorist threat to the region or fabricate one.

At least he doesn’t enjoy taking out terrorists like Bush did.

There is no reason to continue the bloodshed in Afghanistan, which all the parties recognize will not alter the final outcome a whit.

To President Obama, drones are the answer to his foreign-policy prayers.

From mission creep to missileers asleep at the wheel.

Central Europe has become an Apartheid region where Roma and non-Roma inhabit increasingly separate and decidedly unequal worlds.

Why start another body count in a Middle East conflict with no direct relationship to U.S. security?

For many the decomposition of Yugoslavia into its constituent republics in the early 1990s was anything but smooth.

Hope and history are sisters: one looks forward and one looks back, and they make the world spacious enough to move through freely.

A resolution to that end may be just sound and fury.

The rise of Japan’s reactionary right suggests that the country has yet to come to terms with its actions in World War II.

From austerity to Al Nusra.

Guatemala’s genocide trial has lifted the curtain on the country’s bloody past.

Why did the United States feel the need to admit Baltic and Eastern Europeans who at times exceeded the Nazis in brutality?