Earlier this week, as he prepared to leave for Asia, President Obama called the U.S. relationship with China a "strategic partnership." This new labe...
Having decided to eschew modernity, Pyongyang has rendered assessment of North Korea's political intentions an art best likened to divining the truth through an examination of scattered chicken bones.
I would have encouraged Cuba's foreign minister to say that the embargo was an anachronism of the Cold War, has not achieved the goals the US had for it, and harmed both Cuban and US interests.
In light of the Honduran elections, Obama's representative decided that might be a good time to ridicule all the Latin American democracies.
Let's turn to Afghanistan. There is a weak and corrupt government, little to no standing armed forces, and parts of the country entirely controlled by the Taliban.
The deal to reinstate Honduran President Manuel Zelaya unraveled this week, leaving the U.S. as the only government in the western hemisphere willing to let the recent military coup there stand.
Joe Biden is turning out to be a very useful problem-solving tool for the president on the international stage.
What is the ideal role of the U.S. Government in connecting with rural, poor African communities? Does the U.S. Foreign Service have a responsibility to American citizens to know what is going on in the field?
Kind of sad when you see a Freshman US Senator get appointed and immediately hijacked by lobbying groups who have deeply parochial interests that run against the nation's.
Reposted from Truthout. "The Iranian women's movement is not simply demanding equal rights alone. It is demanding a larger universal reality, which ...
Last week Tom Brokaw presented a human rights award to Gabriel Gonzalez. The thoughtful young man then flew home to Colombia, where he is charged with being a terrorist and faces seven years in prison.
I've always been puzzled by our efforts to leave a private legacy for our children while neglecting our public legacy, the character and quality of our commonwealth and its resources that we also leave to our children.
If you care about the people of the United States being engaged in our foreign policy, then you need to care what the faces of the people who represent our foreign policy look like.
The Obama team brokered the accord in Honduras, and got a commitment from the coup leaders. If they go back on it, how much will the Obama administration's word be worth on anything else?
While media attention in Iraq and Afghanistan focuses on car bombings and combat casualties, other disturbing events in the region are slipping through the news cycle almost unnoticed.
Achieving what Obama calls a "world without nuclear weapons" means more than just talking. It also means recognizing -- and implementing -- Washington's own NPT obligations to disarm.
The first U.S. government official to formally resign his post because of objections to America's course in Afghanistan makes a compelling case that America has lost its strategic sensibilities in this war.
Considering what he inherited, and the accomplishments he has made regarding America's image and extension of soft power abroad, Obama's first year cannot be said to have lacked audacity.
Those who thought Obama would end all war, wipe out global poverty, save the environment, and eradicate terrorism in one fell swoop will be sadly disappointed by this mere earthling's first year performance.
The next great political fight will be over a post-recession reduction in government spending in the name of narrowing the gap between government revenues and expenditures.
President Obama's new Sudan strategy lays out a path for the administration to follow, and provides a basis for the advocacy community to hold the administration accountable.
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