Foreign Policy in Focus

The capture of CIA sources in Beirut represents a coup for Hezbollah.

Is detente with Burma just around the corner?

Israeli war hawks and the Americans who enable them are refining their justification for attacking Iran.

Deposed Tunisian President Zine al Abedine Ben Ali left a legacy of repression, torture, and death.

A new book on Pakistan looks at the thicket of problems in which the United States has become enmeshed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu throws in with Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on legislation targeting dissident NGO’s.

A new collection of source documents shows that torture is nothing new in American history.

In effect, Medal of Honor Dakota Meyers was blackballed by the defense industry for his ethics.

Was the NATO attack that killed 25 Pakistani soldiers an accident or an attempt to torpedo peace talks?

Is the notoriously powerful military junta of Burma really loosening its grip?

China is emerging as the leading economic force in Burma, and the Burmese are starting to get uncomfortable.

Israel’s 1981 attack on Iraq’s Osirak reactor may have actually accelerated Iraq’s nuclear-weapons program.

China’s nuclear tunnels are exponentially more alarming than Iran’s underground uranium enrichment facilities.

Is a superpower confrontation over the Falkland islands a real possibility?

A disagreement is ongoing about what exactly should and shouldn’t be included in the nuclear-weapons budget.

By clinging to a paternalistic attitude and an antiquated Washington Consensus, the United States has opened up space for a broad Chinese role in Africa.

The politics and socioeconomics of chocolate and why it is still a guilty pleasure.

Turkey and Syria are no longer BFFs.

Defending itself is not the only motivation for Iran’s retaliation if Israel mounts an airstrike against it.

Journalism is in crisis and it must be reinvented for its own good and for the good of society as a whole.