United States Foreign Policy

An Open Letter to Our Brother, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United States Foreign Policy, Haiti Earthquake, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Haiti Exile, Aristide Exile, Aristide Cuba, Aristide Haiti, World News

In the strongest terms, we urge the United States government to cease its opposition to your return.

Read Post

Crisis Diplomacy In Egypt

Wolfgang Danspeckgruber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crisis Management, Cairo, Barack Obama, Frank Wisner, Egypt, Crisis, Hosni Mubarak, Diplomacy, United States Foreign Policy, Crisis Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, World News

My career-long investigation into the best practices of crisis diplomacy has consistently led me to a singular and understated fact -- perception forms reality.

Read Post

What To Do About Egypt? Try 'Let My People Go!'

Dr. David Liepert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Islam, Declaration of Independence, Human Rights, Egypt Protests, Unintended Consequences, United States Foreign Policy, Religion News

When faced with humankind's diversity, our nations have consistently tried to suppress or coerce the "other", and manipulated world events for our own benefit, and look what it's got us.

Read Post

Democratization in the Arab World: Extraordinary or Dangerous?

Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arab World, Protests-in-Egypt, Cairo, Mohsin Mohi Ud Din, Middle East, Egypt, United States Foreign Policy, Democracy, Egypt Protests, Egypt Government, Egypt Riots, Egypt Democracy, Egypt News, Hosni Mubarak, Fulbright, Barack Obama, World News

Successful democracy is attainable when equality is high or assets are mobile. Egypt has neither.

Read Post

A Way Forward for Nuclear Arms Control

Jonathan Pearl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear Disarmament, Reagan, Russia, Congress, American Exceptionalism, ABM Treaty, Ronald Reagan, Trust-but-Verify, 2010 Elections, Disarmament, George W. Bush, Lame Duck Session, Obama Administration, U.S., Iran, Obama National Security, Nuclear, New Start Treaty, Russia Nuclear Arms, Nuclear War, Intelligence, Nuclear-Reductions, George H.W. Bush, National Security, North Korea Nuclear Program, Washington, Elections 2010, United States Foreign Policy, Start Treaty, Cheating, Verification, Nuclear Proliferation, Nuclear Arsenal, Rose Gottemoeller, Nuclear Arms, United States, Abm-Treaty, Arms Control, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, u.s. Foreign Policy, Bush Administration, Senate, Nuclear Weapons, Midterm Elections, Nuclear Arms Control, 2010 Midterm Elections, Moscow, North Korea, Politics News

Even if New START is ratified before the Democrats' Senate majority significantly shrinks, it will not help advance nonproliferation advocates' long-term goals unless a lost consensus on arms control fundamentals is rebuilt first.

Read Post

Change We Can Believe in

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United States Foreign Policy, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, President Obama, World News

Obama has invested enormous political capital to advance Middle East peace, yet has little to show for it. Significant changes are needed if there is to remain any hope for reaching a breakthrough in the coming year.

Read Post

False Dawn in Iraq

James Denselow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United States Foreign Policy, Iraq War, Iraq, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Politics News

As US combat units pulled back into Kuwait today, a single soldiers was spotted shouting "we won, we won." Yet all is not what it seems.

Read Post

eDiplomacy Ushers In a New Culture of Collaboration at State

The Morningside Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Security, Communication, Ict, Culture, Policy Making in the Digital Age: Video, United States Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, Leadership & Management, Organizations & Institutions, Media & Communications, Technology News

How do you balance, for example, letting employees build their personal brands on Twitter and Facebook with the sharing of professional expertise?

Read Post

Obama's Nobel Lecture: Speaking Truth From Power?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Obama's Nobel Lecture, Karl Rove, President Hamid Karzai, Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, International Monetary Fund, Afghan War, President Barack Obama, United Nations, Nobel Committee, Afghan Security Forces, Obama's Nobel Speech, Desertion Rate of Afghan Security Forces, Imf, Afghan Occupation, Nobel Peace Prize, Soviet Union, Cold War, Vietnam, Vietnam War, United States Foreign Policy, Oslo Norway, Afghanistan, Politics News

Obama's Nobel lecture might have showed us that the US has reached a turning point: either the national security monster we've created is going to eat us alive by bankrupting the country or we're going to have to shift course.

Read Post

Bad Math in Afghanistan: Deaths vs. Compensation

Sarah Holewinski | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civilian Deaths, General Mcchrystal, Australia, Afghanistan, Nato, United States Foreign Policy, Civilian Casualties, Afghan Civilians, US Troops Afghanistan, Canada, Afghanistan War, World News

Nobody's manning the calculator at NATO. War never delivers clean numbers, but no matter how you look at these, something doesn't add up.

Read Post

Don't Forget Bosnia

Diana Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United States Foreign Relations, Bosnia and Herzegovina, United States Foreign Policy, Obama Foreign Relations, Obama Bosnia and Herzegovina, Obama Foreign Policy, United States Bosnia and Herzegovina, World News

I would like to remind our American friends that the burden of leadership extends to decisions about peace. I have four words for President Obama and the American people: Please, don't forget Bosnia.

Read Post

U.S. Withdraws Forces From Iraq, Prepares To Spend Near $1 Billion Hiring Private Guards

washingtonpost.com | Walter Pincus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Military, U.S. Military, United States Foreign Interests, Iraq, United States Foreign Policy, War in Iraq, Private Guards in Iraq, World News

As the United States withdraws its combat forces from Iraq, the government is hiring more private guards to protect U.S. installations at a cost that ...

Read Whole Story

State Department Still Paying Blackwater More Than $400M -- Despite Public Break With Company

nytimes.com | MARK LANDLER and MARK MAZZETTI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: U.S. Military, Blackwater, Afghanistan, Private Secruity Companies, United States Foreign Policy, Terror Tactics, Xe, Iraq, War in Iraq, State Department, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Despite publicly breaking with an American private security company in Iraq, the State Department continues to award the company, former...

Read Whole Story

Clinton: "Irreversible Denuclearization" Only Option For North Korea

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nuclear War, Secretary of State, Denuclearlization, North Korea, United States Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, World News

PHUKET, Thailand - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says "irreversible denuclearization" is the only viable option for North Korea. Att...

Read Whole Story

Cantor: We Need A "Judeo-Christian" Foreign Policy In The Middle East

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christians United for Israel, Cantor, Middle East, United States Foreign Policy, Rep. Eric Cantor, Israel, Eric Cantor, Foreign Policy, Politics News

This afternoon, at the annual Christians United For Israel conference, House minority whip and rumored presidential hopeful Eric Cantor discussed his ...

Read Whole Story

Sons of the Mau Mau

Frankie Martin | Posted 05.25.2011

Kenya must tackle the roots of its election chaos. These include poverty, tribalism, and the failure of the country to live up to the vision of its first president, Jomo Kenyatta.

Read Post

Don't Let Afghanistan Become Obama's Vietnam

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Iraq War, Karzai Obama, Fareed Zakaria, Afghanistan Surge, Iraq Surge, Barack Obama, US Troops in Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, White House, Russ Feingold, Foreign Affairs, George W. Bush, Economic Crisis, Congress, Joe Biden, Mainstream Media, Nato, Stephen Tanner, Richard Holbrooke, United States Foreign Policy, Washington Post, Newsweek, Media Failure, Obama's Vietnam, Obama 17000 Troops Afghanistan, World News

Although the president's goals for the region are commendable, he must carefully examine the larger strategy or Afghanistan might devolve into a hauntingly familiar quagmire.

Read Post

Congressional Support for Israel's War on Gaza Shows Bipartisan Hostility toward International Law

Stephen Zunes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Hamas Gaza, Democratic Congress, Human Rights, Gaza Strip, Gaza, Nancy Pelosi, United States Foreign Policy, Palestine, Israel, Congress, Hamas, Israel Gaza Operation, Politics News

Last month's decision by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, backed by an overwhelming majority of her Democratic colleagues, to go on record in support of Is...

Read Post

How Deeply is the U.S. involved in the Afghan Drug Trade?

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pakistan Uprising, Central Intelligence Agency, Drug War, NATO Troops, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghan War, Caspian Sea, United Nations Security Council, NATO Petraeus, Admiral Mike Mullen, Musharaff and Pakistan State of Emergency, Karzai Afghanistan, NATO Taliban, Mullen Military Politics, Russia Georgia War, Pakistan State of Emergency, Pakistan Democracy, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Afghanistan War, Drug Policy 2008, NATO Afghanistan, Communist Party, Pakistan Opposition, United States Foreign Policy, Admiral Mullen Open Letter, Petraeus and NATO Command, Mike Mullen and Guantanamo, Politics News

Special for the Huffington Post By Eric Margolis October 15, 2008 Afghanistan is in a `downward spiral,' the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of S...

Read Post