The Good American?
Supporters of Ron Paul carry a banner during the New Hampshire Republican Debate While Arabs throughout the MENA region are taking to the streets to demand control over their own destinies, Texas...
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“The Not-So-Great Game” John Feffer Foreign Policy in Focus February 2012 The Great Game of the 19th century involved the British, French, Chinese, Ottoman, and Russian empires. It was centered around...
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is struggling to present a coherent foreign policy Few presidential candidates in recent American politics have articulated as few of words on foreign...
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Canadian Foreign Minister John BairdIt is not too often that I find myself nodding in agreement with the rhetoric being spouted by Iran’s Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi. But on Monday, when Salehi...
View ArticleThe Final Face Off
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama at the first presidential debate in Denver With just over two weeks until the US presidential election on 6 November, the two candidates faced off in a televised debate one...
View ArticleDifference in Degree, but not in Kind
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney shake hands after the final presidential debate.The final debate between America’s two presidential rivals made one thing painfully clear: US foreign policy under President...
View ArticleHillary’s Uncertain Legacy
Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers her farewell address in the lobby of the State Department on February 1, 2013 in Washington, DC. SOURCE: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesHillary...
View ArticleAn Enduring Stalemate
World powers and Iran’s representatives sit at a table during talks on Iran’s nuclear programme in the Kazakh city of Almaty on February 26, 2013. Source: STANISLAV FILIPPOV/AFP/Getty Images This week,...
View ArticleUnder the Weight of Censorship
The daily newspaper Al-Ahram is sold in Tahrir Square on March 4 2011 in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Source: Kim Badawi/Getty Images “When are they going to fire you?” Hani Shukrallah was asked by his...
View ArticleThree Against One
Illustration showing leaders of the Continental Congress, from left to right, John Adams, Robert Morris, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson, from a drawing by Augustus Tholey, 1894. Interim...
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