Foreign Policy in Focus

Bradley Manning Has Done More for U.S. Security than SEAL Team 6

The British government’s offer to pay reparations to colonial-era torture victims in Kenya dispels the notion that British colonialism was any better than the rest.

Tales of ostensibly noble efforts to avert catastrophic human suffering have sanitized the complicity of U.S. policy.

War with Iran could cost you your job.

A poem: To all the men and women who sing change change change Mee-ahn mar–we never heard of you before.

Its personnel may be depressed, but at least they’re not launching nuclear weapons.

This week’s summit between the presidents of the U.S. and China is being welcomed as a virtually unprecedented opportunity for each side.

Something is dreadfully wrong with Hungary–and it could spread to the rest of Europe.

The broad-based protests against Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan reflect deep-seated resentments over the Islamist leader’s increasingly authoritarian governing style.

Sierra Leone may be slowly transcending its ethnic-based politics, but poverty remains an omnipresent threat to its development and democracy.

As is the case with most divorces, the “children” — Czechs and Slovaks — were not consulted.

Turks are feeling steamrollered by Prime Minister Erdogan’s development projects.

For the first time in history, the $70-billion global arms trade will be regulated by international law.

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.