Foreign Policy in Focus

Despite its triumphalism, the GDR museum in Berlin suggests that reunification remains an unfinished business.

Israel showed bad faith in rearresting a man exchanged for Gilad Shalit — and worse faith by holding him in administrative detention.

In fact, sequestration will not “gut” our military. Sequestration will take our military budget back to the level it was in 2007, when we were still fighting two wars.

Why then do we invest nothing at all at collecting, studying, assessing and exploiting peace-related intelligence?

The United States military is its own worst enemy, “witch” burning, healthcare overseas, and other assorted errata.

Americans were once able to wrestle, bit by bit, power and influence from the wealthy elite–and if they did it once, they can certainly do so again.

Same-sex marriage and adoption move forward in France.

While Washington publicly advocates for open dialogue and reform between Bahrain’s regime and the opposition, its policy has so far avoided exerting any real pressure on the kingdom to achieve these ends.

While the official narrative of the Obama administration is sceptical of arming militant groups in Syria, divisions within the administration leave the door open for any number of policies toward the country.

The assassination of a progressive Tunisian leader is the culmination of a full-blown socio-economic and cultural crisis that has been brewing in the country for the past two years.

Why are states allowed to implement nuclear energy without a sufficient emergency preparedness program?

In one region of the world – in this century at least – the sun never rose on US-choreographed torture.

There is no evidence that Israel’s attack on Syria was designed to, as claimed, prevent the transfer of anti-aircraft missiles to Hezbollah.

The Washington Post, along with other news outlets, had by “an informal arrangement” agreed two years ago to suppress news of a secret Saudi drone base – at the request of the Obama administration.

Make no mistake: the Obama administration’s “pivot to Asia” is all about containing China.

The U.S. government may be legally obligated to defend Japan.

Who would you believe: JSOC operatives past and present or the U.S. government?

As pope, an African could provoke a subtle but important change in global attitudes toward Africa and focus more attention on a rising continent rich with promise and challenges alike.

Both Israel and the United States seek to quash expectations that the visit will jump-start the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

As he enters his second term, Barack Obama must confront the role of ‘strategic patience’ as a central driver of our current crisis in Korea.