Foreign Policy in Focus

Is barring Mitt Romney from the presidency a good enough reason to pass on voting for a dream ticket?

The Cuban missile crisis was started by imperial jockeying and resolved by genuine diplomacy.

A team of experts recommend ways to rebalance our national security budget.

Romney’s handling of the Benghazi episode capitalizes on a foundational myth of U.S. politics: that the world is America’s to lose.

How about investing in an energy future that will not bring real terror to millions around the world?

Life has improved for a great number of Venezuelans over the last decade.

Mortally threatened by climate change, Kiribati’s future will be determined by one airport runway.

How effortlessly drones have insinuated themselves into our national narrative.

These days, membership in the European Union comes with no guarantees.

The European Union has turned out to be not that different from the American neoliberal economic model.

When on the run, there’s such a thing as flying too far under the radar.

The locals in one Turkish border province take a dim view of the anti-Assad fighters making their home there.

The growing U.S. military presence in Asia could backfire, giving birth to what it ostensibly seeks to prevent.

McGovern’s 1972 White House run was the last time presidential politics would be so open or so democratic.

Campaigns mounted to ask the candidates questions about human rights abuses and atrocities in places like Darfur, the Sudans, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo were ignored.

A new group of opposition Alawites is complicating the increasingly sectarian character of Syria’s civil war.

The six-way marriage (of Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia) lasted for more than four decades before it fell apart in the least amicable way possible.

Nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation require action on two fronts: the local and policy.

Neither Obama nor Romney is being honest when it comes to U.S. trade with China.

The most disturbing aspect of the final presidential debate was the similarity between the two candidates on many basic foreign policy issues.