Foreign Policy in Focus

The former East Germany’s Stasi used similar justifications as the U.S. for total surveillance.

Foreigners and non-white Americans have been under surveillance for decades.

Obama’s decision to arm the Syrian rebels will likely escalate the conflict and torpedo any possibility for a political solution.

Are zombies the key to peace between Israel and Palestine?

With a million people demonstrating in the streets of Brazil, everyone’s scrambling to understand how a 20-cent bus fare hike turned into a social revolt.

They had been on the State Department’s watch list, but were further downgraded in this years’s Trafficking in Persons report.

China’s about-face on HFCs at the Sunnylands summit is a really big deal.

Drug policy reforms in Latin America will come from below.

The Supreme Court overturned a mandate that certain organizations receiving HIV/AIDS funding state their opposition to prostitution.

Let’s resist the temptation to intervene in Syria. This time, let’s say ‘lesson learned.’

Is it just a propaganda tool that affords the U.S. cover under which to continue its role as global policeman?

Many ethnic Serbs fled — or were expelled from — Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo during those conflicts of the 1990s.

The carbon trade doesn’t just fail to address climate change. In countries like Honduras, it funnels cash to notorious human rights abusers and threatens vital resources.

Republicans oppose U.S. cooperation with Russia on NATO missile defense.

Iran’s June 14 presidential election results, announced the day after voting was held, were nothing less than a political earthquake.

The root of the sexual assault crisis plaguing the military lies in militarism itself.

Iran has to be the only country where one nuclear negotiator defeated another for the presidency.

Is reflexive resistance to intervention in Syria the right reaction by progressives?

What you need to know if you’re voting in the Iran presidential election — or viewing it from afar.

As they go to the polls, ordinary Iranians understand that one of the most salient facts of life in Iran–the international sanctions regime–will not be on the ballot.