Foreign Policy in Focus

The experience of this election observer highlights the deficit of quality in Mexican democracy.

The United States is leading the way to another corporate-friendly free-trade agreement, and it’s bringing its NAFTA partners along for the ride.

Mexico has strict gun control laws. Who knew?

Here’s a way to reduce the military budget without threatening national security.

It’s as if there’s a zero sum relationship between the accuracy of targeting and those targeted.

Activists should expand the boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign that targets Israel to include Morocco

Tunisia’s Salafists are the brown shirts of the Tunisian Arab Spring.

Nowhereisland proves that it doesn’t take fancy technology or big-name consultants to figure out what most people want.

A new documentary portrays the least famous and least successful of the Arab revolts.

China and the United States compete for influence in the Persian Gulf, but they also have overlapping interests in the region.

As usual, Al Qaeda makes a mockery of Islam.

Iran Parliament plays to cheap seats by calling for Strait to be blocked in response to sanctions.

Defectors are leaking from the Assad regime as if it were a sieve.

North’s Korea’s gulag revealed in its all its horror and immensity.

Kaganga John acts locally to promote sustainable development in his Ugandan village, but he thinks globally.

Why are the organizers of the World Conservation Congress holding their meeting near the construction of a military base in South Korea that is destroying the environment?

Kadima and Likud part ways over the military draft in Israel.

Condoleezza Rice may be more interested in becoming Mitt Romney’s running mate than previously thought.

Libya’s first democratic election went comparatively smoothly. But it’s what comes next that poses the greater challenge.

States acquire WMD both for national security and to ensure that the ruling regime survives.