Foreign Policy Journal

Israel Vying for War: Attacking Iran Will Not Repeat History

If history ever repeats itself, it does so only when we fail to learn its important lessons. Israel might be prepared to take such chances, but why should the rest of the world?

Turkey’s Foreign Policy: Zero Problems with Neighbors Revisited

We can only hope that Turkey stays the Davutoglu course, pursuing every opening that enables positive mutual relations among countries and using its diplomatic stature to encourage peaceful conflict resolution wherever possible.

Will Iran Be Attacked?

Washington has made tremendous preparations for a military assault on Iran.

African Babies As Guinea Pigs? Malaria, Bill Gate$, Big Drug$ and Big Buck$

The really nasty thing about all this is the fact that, once again, Big Drug$ tests new drugs on African babies before any such permission is granted to do so on American babies.

Don’t Ask. Lebanese Schools Won’t Tell!

Why Did Palestinian Refugees Come to Lebanon?

How to Make Russia Democratic?

Without a broad coalition, effective pragmatism and collaboration with liberals in the ancien regime, the "White Revolution" will end as miserably as earlier Russian democratization attempts

The January Jobs Are Statistical Artifacts

This good news is a mirage. It is due to faulty seasonal adjustments and to the BLS birth/death model.

Ironies of Israeli military threats and Western economic sanctions against Iran

Over the past several weeks, Iran’s nuclear program has occupied a central place in the reports of mainstream Western media and demonization of Iran has reached new levels.

Please tell me again … What is the war in Afghanistan about?

The only "necessity" that drew the United States to Afghanistan was the desire to establish a military presence in this land that is next door to the Caspian Sea region of Central Asia

The Problem With Iran Not Getting a Nuclear Bomb

Being "the only nuclear power in the Middle East" is a great card for Israel to have in its hand. Is USrael willing to go to war to hold on to that card?