Foreign Policy in Focus

To the West, Syria is a tale of two tales.

If NAFTA is any indication, the TPPA will open up the islands of the South Pacific to tremendous exploitation.

U.S. sanctions on Iran are causing a rift in its relationship with India.

Supreme Leader Khameini and Iran’s Foreign Minister Salehi say all the right things about nuclear weapons.

Anne-Marie Slaughter, former Director of Policy Planning for the Obama administration, advises bypassing the U.N. Security Council and intervening in Syria.

Access to an Iranian military test facility wan’t explicitly denied to nuclear inspectors, just subject to bargaining.

When there’s war all the time, there’s no such thing as
after the war anymore.

A new book on Cuba is a thoughtful treatment of a topic that has usually generated more heat than light.

North Korea is executing a pivot of its own.

U.S. psychologists cast ethics aside when they forged relationships with the state to aid in torture.

The United Nations War Crimes Commission’s records documenting the birth of modern international criminal law have been neglected for nearly 70 years.

American officials believe that Iran would retaliate against the United States even if the U.S. doesn’t take part.

The international community should accept that a centralized state structure cannot be reconstituted within the borders of what used to be Somalia.

Will Ghana’s new oil industry provoke civil, economic, and environmental conflict?

We think we’re helping them. They think we’re out to destroy their way of life.

The soldiers who dumped copies of the Qur’an into an incinerator may as well have set fire to a religion.

The problem with hyping national security threats is that it nudges greater threats such as global warming off the public’s radar screen.

A new book on economic inequality puts environmental sustainability at the heart of global economics.

The sixth Summit of the Americas in Colombia could prove to be an awkward weekend for President Obama.

Politicians indulge in anti-Islamic sentiment with near impunity.