Foreign Policy in Focus

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.

Iraq’s Kurds may at last have their own state. But is it the one they wanted?

From nuclear weapons to unicorns.

George Orwell understood that ignoring obvious horrors for expediency’s sake is a roadblock to justice.

Jeremy Scahill’s ‘Dirty Wars’ conveys the sinister, unaccountable, and deadly power concentrated in the halls of Washington that now threatens the planet.

Although he could face life in prison for a crime of conscience, Manning must feel at least some relief that his pre-trial confinement has come to an end.

Slovenia has achieved the most economic success among East-Central European states transitioning from communism, Bulgaria the least.