Foreign Policy in Focus

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

Could the charges on which former C.I.A. agent John Kiriakou are being jailed be any flimsier?

Reports of peak oil’s death have been greatly exaggerated.

Daniel Bucan is not your usual run-of-the-mill Euroskeptic. He’s a former diplomat whose last posting was in Strasbourg, at the Council of Europe.

Ignatio Ramonet makes predictions of the major upcoming elections, risks, and dangers of 2013 in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia.

It may be a launching pad to push much farther to end our wars, close military bases, and cut Pentagon funding.

Giving UN peacekeeping troops wider authority to use force in the Congo won’t solve the country’s instability.

Nick Turse’s new book uses personal portraits to reveal an often ignored commonality of U.S. wars.

Many of the same people from the Milosevic era have been returned to power.

Its capabilities are limited, but so is its mission.

A former missionary reflects on the possibility for peace on the Korean peninsula.

The powerful Israel lobby faces a dilemma over President Obama’s likely appointment of former Sen. Chuck Hagel to head the Pentagon.

Does conventional thinking that Afghanistan will revert to the Taliban upon U.S. and NATO withdrawal need to be reexamined?

In 2009, Bulgarian pessimism was worse than that of Iraqis and Afghans.

John Kerry may have bungled the lessons of Vietnam on Iraq, but when it comes to Cuba, he’s gotten the message.

A coherent, well-orchestrated plan for disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration of rebel forces and extremists must accompany any intervention in Mali.

President Obama’s selection of John Kerry as the next secretary of state sends the wrong signal to America’s allies and adversaries alike.

Vladimir Putin’s pledge to improve the Russian child welfare system parallels his intention to fill the void left by not renewing Nunn-Lugar.

Watch for more “smart power.”

Seventy-four percent of Yemenis live in rural areas, and the majority of those lack the same three things: electricity, clean water, and education.