Category Archives: Foreign Policy

Shane Bauer, released along with two of his fellow hikers after two years in prison in Iran, had a list of people he wished to thank. President Obama? Secretary of State Hillary Clinton? No: “Hugo Chávez, Sean Penn, Noam Chomsky … Continue reading →

While much focus is fixed on the victors in the Libya conflict, it’s worth taking a closer look at the losers.

The stars seemed to align for the Qaddafi regime’s ouster from Tripoli. Is this how it ought to have gone down in Iraq? Or is it perhaps too soon to draw such lessons from this still fluid situation?

U.S soldiers are increasingly documenting their own experiences of combat on film, and, as Bing West observes, their testimony amounts to a bracing critique of counterinsurgency.

After years of escalating tension, does Turkey’s recent hostility toward Israel signal the onset of a Cold War? If so, the United States can no longer count on both countries as allies.

James Kirchick: “Adham had never picked up a gun before, never mind fired one. But all that changed on August 20, when the tall, lanky, 26-year-old Tripoli resident was handed a weapon and a grenade to fight against the 42-year … Continue reading →

The Alawis, hoping to maintain their tenuous grip on power in Syria, may be the ones to cash in Bashar al-Assad’s chips for him.

Meet Saif Qaddafi, author of a doctoral thesis on “The Role of Civil Society in the Democratization of Global Governance Institutions” and now subject to an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

As the conflict in Libya slogs on, one can reasonably wonder, “has there ever been a truly successful, truly humanitarian humanitarian intervention?”