Foreign Policy in Focus

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.

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?