Foreign Policy in Focus

Burma's President Thein Sein seems to think a veneer of democracy is enough to get sanctions lifted.

The Project for Government Oversight has written a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta reminding him that it's U.S. taxpayers who pay for nuclear weapons in Europe.

Iraq knows that Iran -- unlike America and other Western forces -- is there to stay.

Economic sanctions have not persuaded Iran to give up its nuclear program, so it's time to try something different.

The recent ICC indictment of four Kenyans represents a model for international involvement in conflict resolution in Africa.

How will the international community react if Syria's opposition movement comes down firmly in favor of foreign intervention?

Bahrain's Interior Ministry has hired the heavy-handed former police chief of Philadelphia and Miami.

Apple's march to market supremacy has been accomplished at tremendous cost to both American and Chinese workers.

The Israeli right's assault on democracy could remove the obstacles to an attack on Iran.

The United States is going ahead with an arms sale to Bahrain despite Congressional opposition and criticism from human rights observers.

New avenues for dialogue between the United States and Iran are needed to prevent minor confrontations from igniting a full-scale war.

My modestly priced new ebook covers the worsening health of U.S. foreign policy and the efforts to revive the patient.

The financial crisis and the Occupy movement have challenged Left-Right distinctions and prompted calls for an entirely new economic order.

TomDispatch tries to get us to see things from Iran's point of view.

The Arab revolts disrupted a dispiriting pattern in the Arab world, and these political and intellectual challenges continue to resonate.

The U.S. nuclear-weapons program is awash in nuclear-warhead triggers.