Foreign Policy in Focus

Haiti badly needs to provide for its own security, but it should avoid reconstituting its coup-prone army.

Actually, it’s those who use the Holocaust to their own ends that they oppose.

The history of human rights is not just about Jimmy Carter and Vaclav Havel.

Since the uprising, Egypt’s ruling class has regrouped.

If we truly believe in the value of democracy, the value of freedom, and the power of the people’s voice, we will support Egypt and its new president on their journey toward a free and democratic society.

U.S. security agencies are increasingly interested in the potential for conflict over water. But Washington continues to fundamentally misunderstand the root of the problem.

The Turkish F-4 that Syria shot down was testing Syria’s radar.

What would U.S. policy toward Iran look like if free of pressure from Israel and its supporters?

How far should the state go to improve the world?

Israel’s nukes beg to be balanced.

The media acts as if the development of nuclear weapons were a fait accompli on the part of Iran.

At this point, President Assad is beginning to seem self-destructive.

The Union of South American Nations is speaking out against the ousting of President Fernando Lugo.

Qatar’s foreign policy is ambitious, creative, and rife with ambiguity.

In an attempt to improve the security of its citizens.

And what is the relationship of transnational organized crime to state power?

Momentum is building for drug law reform in Latin America.

The C.I.A. is evaluating Syrian rebels to see which groups qualify for arms aid.

Can a new book help shake the world’s indifference to North Korea’s prison camps?

Attacks from Iraq’s Sunni militant groups are unlikely to provoke Shia reprisals. But what the violence can do is increase the chances that Iraqis will lose complete faith in their political leaders.