Foreign Policy in Focus

As in: come home to roost.

When President Zine Ben Ali was deposed, a new era of modern Tunisian history — one filled with hope and frustration — unfolded.

At the very least least, Chuck Hagel knows war intimately.

Although almost certain to win reelection, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has been overshadowed by a charismatic new far-right leader.

One longs for the heyday of ancient Timbuktu, when African scholars pored studiously over learned manuscripts in quiet libraries.

Bulgaria naively embarked upon a ready-made Western model of change: neoliberalism.

The debates surrounding Obama’s cabinet nominations offer a welcome opportunity for the public–and the administration–to review the failing U.S. policy toward Iran.

By refusing to make any firm commitments at the Doha summit to deliver money over the next decade, industrialized countries are effectively relegating the GCF to irrelevance.

Current U.S. gun control legislation neglects the opportunity to reduce the flow of arms over the Mexican border.

Washington should recognize that Latin America is experimenting with new political and economic models to reduce the region’s traditional poverty and inequality.

How will Washington and Latin American capitals respond to the Falklands referendum?

Risk Monitor’s Stefan Popov is trying to change the image of Bulgaria as the Wild East frontier of the European Union.

The co-director of the Institute’s Foreign Policy In Focus project discussed the African conflict on the PBS NewsHour.

The coverage of the Damini case has sparked a lively debate about how the Western media portrays rape culture abroad.

Iran’s leaders are the first to admit that Western sanctions have had a devastating impact on the country, but they’re confident they can ride out the storm.

Nuclear weapons and voter ignorance are a lethal mix.

Afghans who have sacrificed their homes and futures to the U.S. occupation deserve the chance to make a new life abroad.

Syrian President Assad has demonstrated no interest in winning over his people.

No one seems to see the slightest contradiction in an administration that calls for legal limits on advanced weaponry in the U.S., yet is working assiduously to remove barriers to the sale of advanced weaponry overseas.

Lebanon is being pulled closer yet to Syria’s civil war.