Discussions
Author Interviews
A onetime high-ranking Syrian Army officer on the state of the revolt in Syria.
As part of Foreign Affairs' The Iran Debate: To Strike or Not to Strike, Georgetown Professor Colin H. Kahl took questions submitted to the conversation from Twitter.
Once considered a scourge just on the affluent West, as the developing world grows wealthier and more sedentary, NCDs now loom as a serious public health concern in emerging markets as well. A conversation with UN official Ala Alwan.
Roundtables
The executive director of the 9/11 Commission argues that American defenses against terrorism have been improved, but he says politics and bureaucracy have foiled several vital reforms.
The U.S. mission in Afghanistan suffers from a lack of common objectives among U.S. agencies, argue Randy George and Dante Paradiso. What the war needs is a single commander to unite civilian and military efforts, they write. Not so, replies James Dobbins: Washington should be loath to move away from its tradition of civilian control of the armed forces.
Michael Bröning, Tony Badran, and Mara E. Karlin and Andrew J. Tabler on the increasingly brutal crackdown in Syria, the durability of the Assad regime and what, if anything, the United States can do to bring the crisis to a peaceful end.
Letters
News & Events
The U.S. permanent representative to NATO sits down with Foreign Affairs' Gideon Rose and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' Rachel Bronson.
Gideon Rose, the editor of Foreign Affairs, sits down with "The Takeaway" to discuss how al Qaeda has changed in the year since Osama bin Laden's death.
The May/June 2012 issue of Foreign Affairs is now online.
