Foreign Policy

Obama took on Trump and other GOP presidential candidates but conspicuously sidestepped weaknesses in his own foreign policy legacy.

2015 Global Thinker Wai Wai Nu and Fortify Rights executive director Matthew Smith warn that democracy will mean little unless Muslims get a seat at the political table.

It's his final State of the Union.

The Wassenaar Arrangement aims to reduce the supply of spy software for authoritarian states.

Crude oil’s plunge would have been cause for celebration in years past. But falling prices today are hammering many of the states that enjoyed oil-fueled economic boom years.

Paradoxical as it may sound, Burma’s democratic transition cannot succeed without Beijing.

Long before Donald Trump’s demonizing of Muslims, the Founding Fathers debated whether Islam should be defended.

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The Russian leader has been stirring the pot from Crimea to Syria — but to what end?

A doctor on trial for comparing President Erodgan to Gollum is only the most visible example of Ankara's growing crackdown on freedom of expression.

President Obama likened the search for lone-wolf terrorists to finding mass shooters.

Pakistan may be winning the war against radicals on the battlefield, but it’s losing the war for hearts and minds.

With the small Central African country spiraling toward chaos, the AU may be about to make an unprecedented decision to force a peacekeeping mission.

Pakistanis hope that the army’s new chief of staff, Raheel Sharif, will crack down on militants and boost security. But can one man change a corrupt legal system and prejudiced security infrastructure?

Cold War-era deterrence theory won't cut it anymore.

After five years of discord, Ankara and Jerusalem are ready to mend ties, driven in no small part by Turkey’s desire to get access to Israeli natural gas.

Lawmakers took aim at the Obama administration Wednesday for failing to respond more aggressively to reports that Iran launched a second medium-range ballistic missile last month -- a potential violation of United Nations resolutions.

Croatia's president barely seemed to notice that her honoree's pants fell down during a photo-op.

Donald Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric has his opponents likening him to Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. Such comparisons may be misplaced.

Even during the darkest days of the Cold War, we didn’t act like this.