A panel of experts looks at the U.S. and NATO end game in Afghanistan.
A Focal Points Roundtable: Is the Taliban Losing?
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Bulgarians Wear Their Pessimism as a Badge
In a 2009 Gallup poll, Bulgaria ranked at the bottom of the world in their view of what life would be like for them five years hence.
Mali: After the Intervention
The international community must implement stabilization measures alongside political solutions, military intervention, and humanitarian aid.
Magnitsky Act and Dima Yakovlev Bill Revive Cold War
If it weren’t for punitive acts by the United States, Russia wouldn’t have banned adoptions by Americans.
How Will Obama’s Reconfigured National Security Team Approach the Middle East?
It will likely use a combination of hard and soft power utilizing diplomacy, coalition building, political pressure, and military power.
Is Israel Proof That an Armed Society Can Work?
Why don’t episodes like Newtown occur in another armed society, Israel?
Bulgaria’s Educated Among Those Most Likely to Discriminate Against Roma
The “Decade of Roma Inclusion” has run into resistance by, of all people, the educated of Bugaria.
2012 in 16 Stories
From drugs to drones, budgets to bases, and Syria to Sandy, FPIF continues to cover the human impacts of policy at home and abroad, always affording a special place to scholars and activists committed to changing it for the better. In that spirit, we’ve collected 16 of our biggest stories from 2012—those global vignettes that readers like you read, shared, and talked about the most.
Conn Hallinan’s 2012 “Are You Serious?” Awards
Each year Conn Hallinan’s blog Dispatches From the Edge awards news stories and newsmakers that fall under the category of “Are you serious?” Here are 2012’s winners. Conn Hallinan at the Foreign Policy in Focus blog Focal Points.
In Mexico, No Matter Which Party Holds the Reins, the People Lose
Part 2 of an interview with Drug War Mexico co-author Peter Watt.