Opinions about events beyond our borders.

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• Arming Abbas Washington's latest dumb plan to pump up Palestinian security forces.
  Eric Umansky Dec. 22, 2006
  
• European Union A New Year's resolution for Europe: Less carping, more helping.
  Anne Applebaum Dec. 19, 2006
  
• Who Deserves Democracy? In the Palestinian territories, hypocrisy is the best policy.
  Shmuel Rosner Dec. 18, 2006
  
• Holocaust Denial Is No Joke The Iranian Holocaust conference is sordid and cynical, but we must take it seriously.
  Anne Applebaum Dec. 12, 2006
  
• The Secret Life of Mario Scaramella What a bit player in the case of the radioactive Russian tells us about Berlusconi's Italy.
  Alexander Stille Dec. 11, 2006
  
• Bring on the Afghan Study Group Defeat in Afghanistan could be even more harmful than failure in Iraq.
  Frederick Kempe Dec. 7, 2006
  
• This Is What We've Been Waiting For? The false premise of the Iraq Study Group Report.
  Shmuel Rosner Dec. 6, 2006
  
• While We Weren't Looking We shouldn't be surprised by Alexander Litvinenko's murder.
  Anne Applebaum Dec. 5, 2006
  
• They Know You Know They're Winning Hezbollah has the ultimate weapons in the fight over Lebanon: confidence and patience.
  Shmuel Rosner Dec. 4, 2006
  
• Freedom From Fear Trumps the Freedom To Vote Why it's so hard to establish democracy in countries like Russia and Iraq.
  Ian Bremmer Nov. 22, 2006
  
• How Will History Judge Us? Why it's easier to generate interest in Darfur than Pyongyang.
  Anne Applebaum Nov. 21, 2006
  
• An Imperfect Spy East German spymaster Markus Wolf's empty "achievements."
  Anne Applebaum Nov. 14, 2006
  
• Saddam's True Crime The trial was a mess because the U.S. occupation of Iraq is a mess.
  Anne Applebaum Nov. 7, 2006
  
• Do As We Say—If You Dare The West is no better at promoting democracy today than it was in 1956.
  Anne Applebaum Oct. 31, 2006
  
• Multicultural Manners Removing a full-face veil at work is simply a matter of politeness.
  Anne Applebaum Oct. 24, 2006
  
• Blame China Beijing could bring North Korea into line tomorrow—if it really wanted to.
  Anne Applebaum Oct. 17, 2006
  
• Seoul Shrugs Why South Korea won't abandon its sunshine policy, even after the North's nuke test.
  Soyoung Ho Oct. 16, 2006
  
• Responding to Pyongyang With an Eye Toward Tehran OK, so the axis of evil exists. Let's use it.
  Michael A. Levi Oct. 12, 2006
  
• Anna Politkovskaya, 1958-2006 Russia's best-known journalist, murdered in Moscow.
  Anne Applebaum Oct. 9, 2006
  
• A Storm in an Orchestra Pit Germany is still in denial about the reality of modern terrorism.
  Anne Applebaum Oct. 3, 2006
  
• Lula's Silver Lining The good news about Brazil's problems.
  Ian Bremmer Sept. 29, 2006
  
• Truth and Consequences What we can learn from the Hungarian PM's disastrous slip-up.
  Anne Applebaum Sept. 26, 2006
  
• How First-World Garbage Makes Africans Sick And what Washington can do to clean up its act.
  Jeremy Kahn Sept. 22, 2006
  
• The Resolution Solution What's behind Bush's new reliance on the United Nations?
  Shmuel Rosner Sept. 19, 2006
  
• A Sorry Situation It's time to stop apologizing and start defending freedom of speech.
  Anne Applebaum Sept. 19, 2006
  
• Hijacking the Pirate Menace Washington wraps its political ambitions in the Jolly Roger.
  Corey Pein Sept. 12, 2006
  
• How Syria Survives Bashar Assad may be stupid, but he has a very smart survival strategy.
  Shmuel Rosner Sept. 5, 2006
  
• Army for Hire Two new books on the global market for armed force.
  Nathan Hodge Aug. 31, 2006
  
• The Alternative Middle East Quartet Despite the cease-fire, the region is more volatile than ever.
  Ian Bremmer Aug. 16, 2006
  
• Limited Imagination Why the U.N.'s timid resolution misses the mark.
  Shmuel Rosner Aug. 14, 2006
  
• What's New About the London Terror Plot? Al-Qaida has tried this before.
  Daniel Benjamin Aug. 11, 2006
  
• The Samson Option Is Hezbollah on the verge of destroying Lebanon?
  Michael Young Aug. 7, 2006
  
• The Root-Cause War Palestinians may be the big winners of the Lebanon conflict.
  Shmuel Rosner Aug. 7, 2006
  
• The Man in Havana How has Fidel Castro stayed in power for so long?
  Ian Bremmer Aug. 2, 2006
  
• Castro's Cuba Slate's take on the island and its maximum leader.
  Aug. 2, 2006
  
• What Are They Fighting For? The Israeli military wanted a rapid victory; now they need an exit strategy.
  Shmuel Rosner July 31, 2006
  
• Proxy Power Understanding Iran's use of terrorism.
  Daniel Byman July 26, 2006
  
• Made in the USA Failed U.S. policies caused the mess in Lebanon.
  Daniel Benjamin July 26, 2006
  
• This Isn't World War III The war in Lebanon is a limited, local conflict.
  Shmuel Rosner July 21, 2006
  
• Middle East Meltdown Slate's coverage of the Israel-Lebanon-Gaza crisis.
  July 19, 2006
  
• Strange Bedfellows What's behind the enduring alliance between Syria and Iran?
  Daniel Byman July 19, 2006
  
• Is "Arab Democracy" Worth All This Chaos? Washington forgot an important component—stability.
  Shmuel Rosner July 17, 2006
  
• Neighborly Love Are China and Russia getting too friendly?
  Ian Bremmer July 12, 2006
  
• No Man's Land Gaza is a time bomb primed to explode again and again.
  Shmuel Rosner July 3, 2006
  
• What Turks Are Watching A new wave of anti-American pop culture.
  Richard Morgan June 13, 2006
  
• Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Slate on Iraq's chief terrorist.
  June 8, 2006
  
• Fences What America can learn from Israel's West Bank security barrier.
  Shmuel Rosner June 6, 2006
  
• Migrant Power Mexican workers are finding their voice in the States. Will they be heard in their homeland?
  Eliza Barclay May 30, 2006
  
• The Talking Cure On Darfur, Bush has won support from all sides. But will that make Sudan a safer place?
  Shmuel Rosner May 9, 2006
  
• Cousins in Arms What Lebanon's civil war might tell us about Iraq.
  Michael Young April 11, 2006
  
• Weak President, Strong Protectionists Another way Iraq hurts the U.S. economy.
  Ian Bremmer April 10, 2006
  
• Ciao, Berlusconi! Capisce, Pelosi? What U.S. Democrats can learn from the Italian election.
  Zach Messitte April 5, 2006
  
• Into Thin Air What happened to a Pakistani journalist who exposed a U.S. missile strike?
  Eliza Griswold March 30, 2006
  
• Israel's Big Bang Tuesday's election changed everything.
  Shmuel Rosner March 29, 2006
  
• Promises, Promises Is Olmert's pledge of West Bank disengagement a bold move or just politics as usual?
  Shmuel Rosner March 24, 2006
  
• How To Be Ignored Depressing lessons in realpolitik from the Western Sahara.
  Carne Ross March 21, 2006
  
• Fantasy Ireland Everybody benefits from a united island.
  Ron DePasquale March 16, 2006
  
• How NATO Got Its Groove Back And why Washington won't like it.
  Peter Savodnik March 15, 2006
  
• China's Underpopulation Crisis India has one, too.
  Ian Bremmer March 7, 2006
  
• Nation Creation Kosovo's rocky road to independence.
  Carne Ross March 2, 2006
  
• The Curse of the Venetian Pickpockets A citizen crime patrol is protecting tourists and delighting police.
  Benjamin Sutherland Feb. 20, 2006
  
• Is Burma the Next Iran? A new gas discovery could pay for the nuclear technology they crave.
  Ian Bremmer Feb. 15, 2006
  
• Feeling the Heat? Everybody talks about the "pressure" Iran is under—but the strain is on the other side.
  Shmuel Rosner Feb. 7, 2006
  
• Liberation Mythology The historical roots of Fatah's defeat.
  Michael Young Feb. 3, 2006
  
• How To Civilize Hamas Will Wednesday's winners be too busy fixing potholes to wage jihad?
  Scott MacMillan Jan. 27, 2006
  
• You Asked for Democracy What Hamas' election victory means for the peace process.
  Shmuel Rosner Jan. 26, 2006
  
• Our Status Quo Foreign Policy Managing conflict doesn't mean avoiding crises.
  Ian Bremmer Jan. 23, 2006
  
• Still Splitsville Israeli-Palestinian disengagement, post Sharon.
  Tamara Cofman Wittes Jan. 13, 2006
  
• What Comes Next The Israeli political establishment's first reactions to Ariel Sharon's debilitating stroke.
  Shmuel Rosner Jan. 5, 2006
  
• A Woman's Place Is in the Presidential Mansion What's behind the rise of female politicians in Latin America?
  Alexandra Starr Jan. 4, 2006