Foreign Policy in Focus

The Cardin-Lugar Amendment has the potential to reduce corruption in both resource-rich countries and powerful international corporations.

Democratic leaders have put the Israeli right wing ahead of both human rights and the party’s own membership.

Barack Obama is a smart guy. So why has he spent the last four years executing such a dumb foreign policy?

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s demand that a “clear red line” be set on Iran is ironic in light of Israel’s policy of strategic ambiguity toward its own nuclear weapons.

Elephant poaching may never end until affluent Chinese renounce their taste for ivory.

The U.S.-backed Afghan government of Hamid Karzai is stamping out local government, which only inflames the country’s insurgency.

It becomes more and more difficult to pretend that Israel doesn’t have a nuclear-weapons program and that Iran does.

Although the prospects for an independent state in Syrian Kurdistan remain dim, unprecedented Kurdish autonomy will likely result from the conflict

An attack on Iran would put International Atomic Energy inspectors at risk.

When it comes to foreign policy, significant transformation is as unlikely in Washington as it is in Pyongyang.

A new resolution casts such a wide net over anti-Semitism that it includes legitimate opposition to Israeli policies.

Unconditional U.S. support gave the Israelis the confidence that they could literally get away with murder, even if it involved a U.S. citizen.

A review of Gregory Johnsen’s “The Last Refuge: al-Qaeda and America’s War in Yemen.”

Peru is grappling with a host of issues stemming from its violent struggle against insurgent movements.

In the end, what are nuclear weapons, but war writ large?

A remarkable documentary offers a rare look at the women’s side of the mosque.

The main source of terrorism during the Algerian civil war was elements of the government itself.

A new book argues that there’s been nothing visionary about Barack Obama’s foreign policy.

The West insists on nuclear nonproliferation, but refuses to reciprocate with meaningful disarmament.

The bad dream unfolding in Mali is the consequence of the West’s scramble for resources in Africa, and the wages of sin from the recent Libyan war.