Arming the Middle East
To contain Iran, the administration is on the verge of upping the arms ante in the Middle East, and the Dems are giving it a pass.
Nonviolent Action and Pro-Democracy Struggles
The United States is not behind the democratic revolutions against dictators. Popular movements are.
The Future of Peacekeeping
UN peacekeeping operations are increasing in size and complexity. Why aren’t they getting the financial and political support they need?
The Day After
Where will the Bali roadmap take us?
Revisiting Intelligence Reform
Congress and the next president must take U.S. intelligence agencies away from the Pentagon and put them under civilian control.
Efficacy, Wind-Blowing, and the Favored Villain
A response to Daniel Millenson: The divestment movement from Sudan still makes clear “the failures in our intellectual culture”
The Surgeon Fails in Iraq
It’s time to put the scalpel away and go home.
FPIF In the News
Foreign Policy In Focus The Lehrer News Hour (November 13) and National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation (November 19) talked with FPIF columnist Zia Mian about Pakistan and nuclear weapons.
The Esther Strategy
Faith-based activists should take their inspiration from the story of Esther and pursue an inside-outside strategy to secure the wellbeing of the vulnerable.
The Theology of American Empire
Ira Chernus writes that Americans crave a foreign policy based on moral conviction. Neoconservatives have offered one version. The left must provide a different one.
Divestment: Solution or Diversion?
The divestment movement from Sudan makes clear “indication of the failures in our intellectual culture”
Art as Jujitsu
War grabs the headlines, and anti-war art grabs our attention. They do so with some of the same tools: guns, bombs, and body counts.
The Taiwan of Europe
According to the compromise proposal of UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari, the international community was to grant “supervised independence” to Kosovo, the largely Albanian enclave in southern Serbia.
AFRICOM: Wrong for Liberia, Disastrous for Africa
The United States wants to set up a new command structure in Africa. Columnist Emira Woods and Ezekiel Pajibo explain why Liberia and Africa should just say no.
Zoellicks World Bank Coronation
Umpire, this game is fixed! Zoellick is poised to replace Wolfowitz in the World Banks latest one-horse-race.