Libya matters to the United States not for its oil or intrinsic importance, but because it has been a key part of the rapidly evolving transformation of the Arab world. For Arab protestors and regimes ...

AS THE U.S. prepares to attack Syria, a familiar conversation is taking place. President Barack Obama is making the case for U.S. strikes. Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham are going ...

The U.S.' involvement in the turmoil sweeping the Arab world was undertaken with great reluctance, despite what President Obama's speech--given nine days after the event--might lead one to believe.

“The idea that we’re able to deal with the rights of women around the world by military force is not rational.” This single sentence from President Biden’s ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos on ...

We are seeing today in Yemen a demonstration of how easily a supposedly limited U.S. involvement in an armed conflict becomes less limited, and how such involvement creates new enemies of the United ...

Can International Criminal Court (ICC) interventions in ongoing conflicts help curtail war crimes and civilian abuses that are being actively perpetrated? The court has increasingly intervened in such ...

Our former associate editor Matt Welch drops some depressing foreign policy prognostication from his current gig at the Los Angeles Times. Worth reading and thinking about in full, but here are some ...

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