Opinions about events beyond our borders.

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• Keeping the Peace Traveling with the U.N. blue helmets in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
  Jessie Deeter Dec. 26, 2003
  
• Doom and Duma? Why the nationalists surged in the Russian election.
  Michael McFaul Dec. 16, 2003
  
• First Aid Bush should support private development assistance, not create another government bureaucracy.
  Kim Iskyan Dec. 16, 2003
  
• Murder by Media Why the Rwandan genocide tribunal went too far.
  Joel Simon Dec. 11, 2003
  
• The Case of the Misunderstood Memo The Feith "annex" highlights the Bush administration's misuse of intelligence material.
  Daniel Benjamin Dec. 9, 2003
  
• What Georgia Taught Us Washington must stop aiding Central Asia's dictators.
  Lutz Kleveman Dec. 3, 2003
  
• Prague Revisited The evidence of an Iraq/al-Qaida connection hasn't gone away.
  Edward Jay Epstein Nov. 18, 2003
  
• Putin's Next Power Play Jailing billionaires is just the beginning; he wants to be Russia's president-for-life.
  Kim Iskyan Nov. 4, 2003
  
• "The Company" Goes Corporate The CIA's new business model is the world of commerce.
  Ted Gup Nov. 4, 2003
  
• Rumsfeld's Folly How the war in Iraq undermined the war on terror.
  Daniel Benjamin Oct. 30, 2003
  
• The Language Lesson Americans can learn Arabic; they just need to be motivated.
  Lee Smith Oct. 23, 2003
  
• Flight School Israel's protesting pilots expose its divided vision of democracy.
  Bernard Avishai Oct. 17, 2003
  
• Playboy of the Eastern World Why you should care about Azerbaijan's presidential elections.
  Kim Iskyan Oct. 13, 2003
  
• Where Are the "Lost Girls"? 3,700 young Sudanese refugees made it to America. Why are only 89 of them female?
  Tara McKelvey Oct. 3, 2003
  
• Tolerating Putin's Evil Empire Why Bush is ignoring the latest Russian crackdown.
  Kim Iskyan Sept. 23, 2003
  
• Selling Off Siberia Why China should purchase the Russian Far East.
  Kim Iskyan July 28, 2003
  
• Did Mahmoud Abbas Finance the 1972 Munich Olympic Takeover? And if he did, does it make him a less trustworthy negotiator in 2003?
  Michael Young July 24, 2003
  
• Forget the Road Map A real deal for peace in the Middle East—once and for all.
  Samer Shehata June 5, 2003
  
• Lords Over Lebanon Syria's still in charge, but the U.S. presence in Iraq could change that.
  Michael Young May 8, 2003
  
• The Other Vietnam Syndrome What went wrong in Saigon, and how it could happen again in Iraq.
  Catharin Dalpino April 23, 2003
  
• Chinese Whispers Why has the Bush administration stopped fighting Beijing's human rights abuses?
  James Gibney April 21, 2003
  
• Iraq INC? Don't expect postwar miracles from the Iraqi National Congress.
  Gideon Rose April 9, 2003
  
• The Non-Jazeeras Watching the war on the other Arabic channels.
  Michael Young April 4, 2003
  
• The Battle for Beyara A year of training for 12 hours of fighting in northern Iraq.
  Elizabeth Rubin April 3, 2003
  
• The Bush Backlash In its dash to Baghdad, the administration left its own rear guard exposed.
  Gideon Rose April 1, 2003
  
• Unprecedented Logic Why slippery-slope arguments against invading Iraq don't hold water.
  Eugene Volokh March 18, 2003
  
• What "New Europe"? The Europeans are divided, but not over Iraq.
  Scott MacMillan Feb. 19, 2003
  
• Why Germany Isn't Convinced Joschka Fischer is wrong to resist the Iraq war. But he's not evil.
  Paul Berman Feb. 14, 2003
  
• Frozen Out The Kurds, Saddam, and Washington.
  Patrick Cockburn Jan. 17, 2003