TRIPping Up Least Developed Countries on Medicines, Green Tech, and Textbooks?
The World Trade Organization struggles for relevance in a world that embraces diversity.
In Bahrain, An Uprising Unabated
The United States needs to halt its assistance to Bahrain until the country implements promised democratic reforms.
Purifying America’s Textbooks of Ethnic Studies
If right wingers are going to purge “ethnic studies” from America’s textbooks, then they’ll have to purge history too.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (5/17)
From the decline in democracy to the rise in the price of peace.
Trouble on the Other Side of the Euphrates
Iraqi demonstrators are now taking matters into their own hands.
Despite Horrific Repression, the U.S. Should Stay Out of Syria
What can we do in Syria? Unfortunately, not much.
President Obama Tries to Pass Guantanamo Closure Buck to Congress
As the Guantanamo hunger strike widens, the president deflects blame.
In Tehran, All Eyes on North Korea
Developments on the Korean peninsula will almost certainly influence calculations made in Washington and Tehran.
Expand Nuclear Weapons Programs to Protect Missileers’ Tender Psyches
Nuclear missile officers jobs weigh heavy on them but not for the reasons you’d think.
Spirit of Boondoggle Departs Quashed Los Alamos Project, Finds New One to Possess
The construction of an expensive new plutonium pit facility has been abandoned. Will it be replaced a collection of smaller buildings?
Portugal Struggles to Meet Troika Conditions
In order to qualify for the next loan installment, Prime Minister Coelho must convince the European Union and the IMF that he can make draconian cuts.
Syria: Great Game or Just a Tug of War?
Too many states, large and small, see themselves as having a vested interest in Syria’s outcome.
Make Migrants, Not War in North Korea
North Korea policymakers must look beyond the nuclear issue to consider the human rights of the population.
Would Pakistan Respond to India’s Use of Conventional Weapons With Tactical Nukes?
Theoretically Pakistan is poised to respond to Indian military retaliation for a terrorist strike with tactical nukes.
Minot’s Launch Control Fail: Reason #532 Why Nuclear Deterrence Is a Fragile Foundation for Peace
To concerns about human error in nuclear launch control add moodiness.