Foreign Policy in Focus

Mitt Romney is playing the same cynical game as Benjamin Netanyahu.

Five foreign policy questions the candidates won’t have to answer but should.

The United States should take a lesson from Africa in dealing with its AIDS epidemic.

With the U.S. roping South Korea into its cold war with China, one South Korean peace activist says it’s time for peace on the Korean peninsula.

The concept of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has gained general acceptance more quickly than anticipated.

Beneath the bluster, Romney’s foreign policy isn’t so different from Obama’s. It’s just worse.

The West suddenly seems less concerned with democracy in the DRC than it professed to be last year.

The West may not use nuclear weapons on Iran, but attacking its nuclear enrichment facilities will have a similar effect.

A new book offers a look at the Obama administration’s China policy from the inside.

The Obama administration took a red pen to Bibi’s red line.

A recently discovered U.S. army report puts lie to the Pentagon’s denials that it exposed soldiers and civilians to Agent Orange on Okinawa.

“He insisted that I couldn’t understand Bulgaria until I’d listened to the Balkan blues.”

There are plenty of legitimate criticisms of the Obama record on foreign policy. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have made none of them.

The wisdom and advisability of “pivoting” in order to economically, militarily and politically isolate your main banker is a head scratcher.

Here’s a proposal for putting the environment smack at the center of security, beginning with Asia.

Research has shown that one of the main reasons Americans don’t like politics is conflict between candidates and in Congress.

Belgrade is gritty — in both senses of the word.

The U.S. use of drones in Pakistan is not only illegitimate, but less precise than advertised.

French anti-nuclear activists are hunger-striking their way onto the political agenda.

Holding the director of “Innocence of Muslims,” however objectionable a film, responsible for murder doesn’t pass the legal smell test.