Gareth Porter | Hong Kong | March 11 Asia Times - After Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in October 2005 called for an end to the state of Israel (as a geographical entity), Israeli leaders began stepping up talk of an "existential threat" to the country. Likud Party leader Binyamin Netanyahu, w...

Foreign Policy in Focus - Washington, February 13 "Multilateralism in Munich" By Hannes Artens Team Obama's debut on the world stage at last weekend's security conference in Munich was highly anticipated. With his pledge for a "new era of cooperation," Vice President Joe Biden struck the right note ...

I saw Bush for what he was before he got elected, I begged my US friends to vote for Gore, but they wanted the tax cuts Bush promised. Boy, how different would it have been if we had the Lock box Gore wanted for a rainy day and done a better job in Afganistan and not gone to war in Iraq. I wonder if...

By Hannes Artens With merely a month to go until the Obama administration will have to helm the West's more or less united front against Iranian nuclear enrichment a fierce struggle for posts, policies and priorities of/in the Obama team is raging behind the Washington scenes. Far from brought to a ...

This is a really interesting article in the Times about Georgia, the Ukraine and NATO. Well reported and worth a read. The real meat comes at the end of the article. It really is about the Germans and the Americans getting pissed off at each other about NATO membership for both countries. The German...

Sadly, I share George's pessimism about the future of Obama's foreign policy. He's surrounded himself with creatures of the establishment. No one on his team at this point hasn't been involved in the catastrophes of our foreign policy since the early nineties. Mogadishu, Kosovo, the failure of Bill ...

By Hannes Artens George Bush's gestures of transatlantic reconciliation are not always appreciated; here with a discontented German in 2006(Source: Der Standard) George Bush graces Europe with his presence one last time. With the world glued to the race for his succession, no one expected anything s...

I take a beating when I write about foreign policy. In the particular internet communities I move in, there are few voices that call me a "cut-and-run leftie." But there are plenty of neo-isolationists who label me a reckless fool for imagining any kind of positive American involvement abroad, and p...

Richard Haas writes a short explanation of everything that is wrong with American foreign policy in this month's Foreign Affairs. Needless to say, I have some real problems with some of his analysis. Haas writes: The twentieth century started out distinctly multipolar. But after almost 50 years, two...

Luke Harding | Dikhazurga | April 17 The Guardian - While Georgia hopes to join Nato, its rebel Abkhazia area is being wooed by Russia The bridge over the Ingur does not feel like a place at war. There is no gunfire, merely the noisy croaking of frogs. Down on the river bank, anglers with homemade w...