Recently added articles from Foreign Policy in Focus:
Pelosi the hawk.
Apr 27, 2009; ... Reports by international human rights groups and from within Israel in recent weeks have revealed the massive scale of war-crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law, committed by Israeli forces during their three-week offensive against the Gaza Strip earlier this year ....
Iraq policy outlook: 2009.
Mar 13, 2009; ... In Iraq, 2008 carried over much of the beginnings of security improvements that began in late 2007. The decrease in violence, at least relative to the devastation of 2006-2007 is widely seen as enabling President Barack Obama to have the political space needed to call for the drawdown of ...
Afghanistan policy outlook: 2009.
Mar 12, 2009; ... Largely overshadowed by the high death tolls and the large U.S. presence in Iraq, much of the U.S. public forgot about the war in Afghanistan. Now, after eight years of war, what was all too commonly referred to as "the good war" has grabbed the attention of the public once more. ...
Africa policy outlook 2009.
Jan 27, 2009; ... Overview The outpouring of emotion across Africa when President Barack Obama was sworn in had as much to do with his heritage as with the possibility that he might reverse some of the Bush administration's disastrous policies. President George W. Bush trumpeted Africa as a ...
Beyond the drug war.(drug control policies)
Nov 25, 2008; ... When Bolivian President Evo Morales recently made his first visit ever to Washington, he gave a rousing speech before hundreds at American University, addressed the Organization of American States (OAS), and met with leaders of both political parties on Capitol Hill. Strikingly absent from ...
Engaging Pyongyang on human rights.
Nov 20, 2008; ... In the evolving U.S. policy toward North Korea, human rights considerations and national security concerns have competed for precedence. During President George W. Bush's first term, when a more confrontational stance predominated, human rights issues had greater visibility in Washington ....
The United States and Bolivia.
Sep 18, 2008; ... The alleged support by the United States of wealthy landowners, business leaders, and their organizations tied to the violent uprising in eastern Bolivia has led U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg's expulsion from La Paz and the South American government's demands that the United States stop ...
Extraordinary rendition, extraordinary mistake.(United States policy on torture and antiterrorism measures)
Aug 29, 2008; ... Mamdouh Habib, an Australian citizen, was living in Sydney with his wife and four children when he took a trip alone to Pakistan to find a home for his family. When Habib boarded a bus for the Islamabad airport to return home, Pakistani police seized him and took him to a police station, ...
Clearing the hurdles.(working conditions in the sportswear industry)
Aug 20, 2008; ... The 2008 Beijing Olympics represents a golden opportunity for the brand-conscious sportswear industry to associate its products with the cherished Olympic brand. For a costly, but manageable sponsorship or licensing fee, a sportswear company can infuse its athletic shoes and clothes with ...
U.S. role in Georgia crisis.
Aug 14, 2008; ... The international condemnation of Russian aggression against Georgia--and the concomitant assaults by Abkhazians and South Ossetians against ethnic Georgians within their territories--is in large part appropriate. But the self-righteous posturing coming out of Washington should be tempered ...
The new walls of Baghdad.(new security walls in Iraq)
Apr 21, 2008; ... The new "surge" strategy in Iraq, led by General David Petreaus, has been heavily marketed as an example of the U.S. military's application of the "lessons of history" from previous counterinsurgencies to Iraq, foremost among them the need to win the population over from insurgents through ...
Food safety on the butcher's block.
Apr 18, 2008; ... On April 11, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) released a report that found that of the national efforts to improve U.S. food safety, "none of the targets were reached in 2007." According to the CDC, 76 million Americans--one in four--come down with food poisoning every year. Among the ...
Korean bases of concern.
Apr 02, 2008; ... Last month the New York Philharmonic grabbed the world's attention by performing Dvorak's New World Symphony in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. The Philharmonic may well have chosen Dvorak's piece as an overture for a new world of peace. With negotiations over security issues in ...
Global cooperation: the candidates speak.
Mar 26, 2008; ... When George W. Bush first campaigned for the presidency, his foreign policy plans hinged on building a stronger economic and political relationship with Latin America, especially Mexico, and reducing U.S. involvement in small-scale military engagements in general, and "nation building" in ...
NATO at a crossroads.(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Mar 21, 2008; ... NATO stands at a crossroads: the 26-member alliance is simultaneously engaged in the most difficult military mission it has ever undertaken--its first ever ground war--while also undergoing pressure to transform itself in an uncertain world. In particular, NATO's International Security ...
Resisting the empire.
Mar 20, 2008; ... Victories are within sight for people in a growing number of nations where communities that host U.S. foreign military bases have long fought to get rid of them. Ecuador's decision not to renew the U.S. lease for the forward operating base at Manta is the culmination of just one ...
The war at home.
Mar 19, 2008; ... This is an excerpt from testimony before a House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Health hearing held February 28, 2008, regarding the Iraq War's mental health impacts of Iraq War on the families of Guard/Reserve veterans. I am the author of "When the War Came Home: The Inside ...
Iraq's "hidden" conflict.
Mar 18, 2008; ... While the majority of Iraqis know that the current Sunni-Shiites tension did not exist before 2003, no one can deny that after five years of U.S. occupation, sectarian tension is now a reality. Sectarianism is another disaster that was brought to Iraq by the war and occupation of Iraq. ...
Rule, not reconciliation.
Mar 17, 2008; ... As we mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, rhetoric around the "success" of the so-called surge continues. Presidential hopefuls, along with members of the Bush administration, continue to tout "progress," citing fewer U.S. casualties and moves amongst ...
Guantanamo: the bigger picture.(Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba)
Mar 16, 2008; ... The U.S. base at Guantanamo has been called many things. The "gulag of our time" (Amnesty International General Secretary Irene Khan, May 2005). "The key strategic intelligence platform in the war on terror" (Charles Stimson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs, ...