Foreign Policy in Focus

Taking the diplomatic road on Iraq and Syria would let Sanders get back to the business he started in 2002 — making space between himself and Hillary Clinton on the Middle East.

The Obama administration’s final Pentagon budget calls for quadrupling spending on efforts to counter Russia.

Foreign policy is too important to leave to the “professionals.” Through art and culture, we can all work to make the world a better place.

Wrestling is the new ping pong when it comes to U.S.-Iranian relations.

East Asia is invisible to the average American — for better and worse.

Our foreign policy is aggressive, parochial, and hard-hearted. Unless voters finally demand differently, our next president will be the same.

While ISIS makes war on the world’s vast majority of “moderate Muslims,” hardliners in the West pretend they don’t exist.

A powerful new solo show on the Israel-Palestine conflict presents the sounds of one man wrestling.

Our wildly inflated fear of terrorism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Economists said the market would save the planet. It didn’t.

Washington is effectively subsidizing Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal — the fastest-growing in the world — even as the country drifts closer to China and Russia.

Obama’s made a lot of Faustian bargains over the last seven years. But given his likely successors, what we got over the last two terms may be as good as it gets.

Housing demolitions create an environment of constant anxiety for Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem, increasing the likelihood of violent retaliation.

The leaders of fossil fuel companies are personally incentivized to keep their firms on a path of climate destruction.

IPS’s Peter Certo joins Telesur for an in-depth look at U.S. foreign policy as it relates to ISIS, Saudis, Syria, and more.

There’s no grand, exciting solution to the war in Syria. It’s going to take an endless parade of meetings where people sit and talk. And talk. And talk.

Even as governments set climate targets, they’re working hard to expand the extractive global economy with measures that could deepen the climate crisis.

The Islamic State’s latest atrocities are a calculated effort to bring the war in Syria home to the countries participating in it.

Burma’s constitution awards a quarter of its parliament to the military. But that’s not Aung San Suu Kyi’s biggest problem by a long shot.

The only sensible solution to the Syrian crisis is a quantum one in which Bashar al-Assad is simultaneously there and not there.