Foreign Policy in Focus

The mainstream media was too willing to focus on spurious criticisms of Susan Rice from the right while ignoring legitimate criticisms from the left.

The author believes that Egyptians need to be patient and give democracy a chance to work.

A real commitment to security must place human life and public safety above all else–no matter which side of the border you’re on.

The U.S. has led a diplomatic push against Sri Lanka’s government, but that hasn’t stopped it from cultivating a military alliance with the troubled state.

The Obama administration is giving Rwanda President Kagame a pass on enabling violence in the Congo.

Activist Sonja Licht took no pleasure in correctly predicting the tragedy of Yugoslavia.

The U.S. is finally about to turn around a 13-year-long surge in Pentagon spending.

The United States chose an inopportune time to lift restrictions on Russia and normalize trade relations.

Even a conservative estimate of the true costs of garrisoning the globe comes to an annual total of about $170 billion–or maybe even more.

“There is no success in the Balkans without reconnecting everything except politics.”

For President Mahmoud Abbas, the vote was a last-ditch attempt to boost his increasingly diminished relevance.

The declared loser in the Ghana presidential election is not going gently into the electoral good night.

North Korea will not consider relinquishing its nuclear program without fundamental changes to the security dynamic in the region.

Federal prosecutors seek to remove justification for the existence of nuclear weapons from the trial of the Transform Now Plowshares Three.

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi may have inadvertently provided his critics with a temporary unifying device.

Sudan President Omar al-Bashir detains “elbow lickers” in “ghost houses.”

In fact, corporations not only manage them, but increasingly determine their agendas.

While well-intentioned, “Argo” falls into the common Hollywood trap of making Muslims into a monolithic Green Menace.

The citizens of Sierra Leone turned out in droves to vote, but they have failed to benefit from booming oil exploration and the mining industry.

Tunisians protested against massive youth unemployment and low wages.