Foreign Policy in Focus

To Bush Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, the invasion of Iraq wasn’t war as much as an advanced form of saber-rattling.

North Korea has announced that it’s withdrawing its workforce 53,000 workers from the Kaesong Industrial Complex, jointly held with South Korean.

An elite group of developed countries appears to be on the brink of instigating yet another corporate handout and big bank giveaway–this time in the name of fighting climate change.

Maisara Abu Hamdiyeh is the second Palestinian prisoner in as many months to have died in Israeli custody.

Welcome, Beyonce and Jay-Z, to the club of those anathematized and cursed by the McCarthyist embargo supporters.

The nineties were challenging years in Bulgaria for trade unions affiliated with the political opposition.

Football fan clubs have played an unexpectedly powerful political role in Egypt’s revolutionary path.

Emphasis, as always, added.

How Slobodan Milosevic quietly stoked sectarian bloodshed even as he wrapped himself in the Yugoslavian flag.

What if the North Koreans grew desperate enough to attempt to conquer only the portions of South Korea closest to them — which are also the most valuable?

The slaughter in the DRC is intricately linked to electronic components carried by millions of people in the United States and Europe.

The cultural and religious assault Islamic extremists are mounting in Tunisia recalls the Taliban’s demolition of the Buddhas of Bamiyan.

What the North Korean leadership is hoping to achieve by its belligerence is anyone’s guess, but the aggressive U.S. response has only escalated tensions.

Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, arraigned by the International Criminal Court, had the temerity to request his release until the start of the trial.

Leading a rebel group may be the best way to be taken seriously in a country with weak political and civil institutions.

While the Arms Trade Treaty doesn’t do anything to affect American gun owners, it’s so weak that it doesn’t seem to affect anybody at all.

From the perspectives of trade unions, the reforms in Bulgaria over the last 20 years have been disastrous.

If lies have delivered us to this place, then only the truth will begin our journey back.

The U.S. flooded Afghanistan with military and aid funds, while expediently skipping any process of oversight, and so turned Operation Enduring Freedom into Operation Enduring Corruption.

Corporate contractors not only receive money from the federal government, but help dictate policy.