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 ...
Torture and the bomb.
Oct 21, 2009; ... When the United States adopted torture as a weapon in its "war on terror," it was a turn to methods that shock the conscience, and when discovered, officials and their media surrogates went to great lengths to gain public acquiescence for their policies. It was not the first time the ...
Cities can save the Earth.
May 12, 2009; ... The climate crisis won't be solved by changing light bulbs and inflating your tires more, planting a tree and driving a little less. It's going to require a truly fundamental shift in how we build our cities and live in them. The key to changing our cities involves the car. Cars ...
Learning to love the European Union.
May 14, 2009; ... Most Europeans today can travel from Athens to Helsinki without a visa or changing currency, thanks to membership in the European Union (EU). In the current throes of the global economic crisis, the Euro zone is an enviable shelter to weather the storm. But 50 years after its creation, the ...