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  • Bush's Euro-skeptics

    In France they call him "an idiot." In Germany they call him a "big bully." Forget China -- Europe could turn out to be President Bush's biggest foreign policy problem yet.
    By Steve Kettmann April 6, 2001

  • Washington sobers up on sanctions

    The Bush administration plans to abandon 10 years of failed Iraqi policy and instead hit Saddam where it will hurt him most: His cash-lined pockets.
    By Fiona Morgan February 28, 2001

  • Colin Powell rolls up his sleeves

    On his trip to the Middle East next week, Bush's secretary of state will face an escalating conflict that he never intended to mediate.
    By Ben Barber February 16, 2001

  • Dictator downturn

    It just isn't as easy being a tyrant as it used to be.
    By Laura Rozen February 3, 2001

  • Clinton grows a spine

    The president surprises his critics by, at the last possible moment, signing on to the treaty for an International Criminal Court.
    By Lawrence Weschler January 5, 2001

  • The fraud of American "peacemaking"

    Clinton is just the latest U.S. leader whose one-sided support for Israel has doomed the region to bloodshed.
    By Michael Adams January 4, 2001

  • Clock running out on Clinton's Mideast legacy

    Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat makes a last-minute trip to Washington to clarify a Clinton-proposed peace deal with Israel.
    By Flore de Préneuf January 3, 2001

  • Peacekeeping's pitfalls

    Growing tensions along the border between Kosovo and southern Serbia could mark the first challenge for President-elect Bush's foreign policy team.
    By Laura Rozen December 22, 2000

  • The earth literally shakes as Mexico's new president takes charge

    Boasting a radical plan to open the border and expand trade with the U.S., Vicente Fox takes office and sets the tone for a new North American order.
    By Scarlet Pruitt December 2, 2000

  • Florida voters in Israel look on in amazement

    As their absentee ballots float through the airmail ether, American Jews abroad are thrilled at how significant their votes might be.
    By Flore de Préneuf November 13, 2000

  • An eerie campaign silence

    Bush and Gore should tell us where they stand on the ugly $1.3 billion drug war offensive in Colombia that the next president will have to face.
    By Arianna Huffington September 1, 2000

  • Panama wants to stay out of the drug war

    Fearful of walking in the footsteps of Thailand during the Vietnam War, officials in Panama want to stay out of the U.S. offensive in Colombia.
    By Mark Schapiro August 30, 2000

  • Clash of the featherweights

    George W. Bush and Al Gore both support contradictory policies on China and Cuba. Neither can explain why.
    By Joe Conason May 9, 2000

  • Congo needs help, not Western posturing

    A feud between Richard Holbrooke and Madeleine Albright shadows what will likely be useless U.N. aid to war-torn Central Africa.
    By David Rieff May 8, 2000

  • What did we learn from Vietnam? Part 2

    Author Todd Gitlin, filmmaker Freida Lee Mock and journalist Andrew Lam on the lasting effects of the war.
    By Fiona Morgan April 25, 2000

  • Pat Buchanan courts the Teamsters

    Looking for union support, the "reformed" xenophobe bashes the World Bank and vows to appoint James Hoffa to a cabinet post.
    By Alicia Montgomery April 13, 2000

  • Why Elian should stay in the U.S.

    Growing up as "state property" in the Soviet Union convinced me that freedom is as crucial as a father's love.
    By Cathy Young March 24, 2000

  • Bush's secret weapon

    Condoleezza Rice discusses her candidate's strong foreign policy convictions, but it's clear she's the brains of the operation.
    By Steve Kettmann March 20, 2000

  • War in Yugoslavia

    The Balkans crisis through Salon's lens.
    By no byline February 22, 2000

  • Who killed Arkan?

    The rise and fall of Zeljko Raznatovic symbolizes how corrupt and morally bankrupt Serbia has become under Slobodan Milosevic.
    By Laura Rozen January 17, 2000

  • Elián González and the future of Cuba

    As Havana waits for Castro's demise, even his enemies are appalled by the way Miami's Cuban exiles have used the motherless boy for their own political ends.
    By Cynthia Durcanin January 15, 2000

  • Indiana Dan vs. Dr. Evil

    The congressman trying to prevent Elian Gonzalez's return to Cuba, Rep. Dan Burton, gets more campaign funding from Florida's Cuban exile community than from his own folks back home in Hoosierland.
    By Daryl Lindsey January 13, 2000

  • The bloody truth about Kosovo

    No amount of whitewashing can cover up the mess the Clinton administration has on its hands in Yugoslavia.
    By Arianna Huffington December 14, 1999

  • Take-home test

    Gov. Bush says he has been reading a biography of former Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Here's a reading comprehension exam for the GOP front-runner.
    By David Corn December 13, 1999

  • A quiz that matters

    Foreign-policy experts come up with the real questions George W. Bush should answer.
    By Douglas McGray December 13, 1999
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