Foreign Policy in Focus

Foreign Policy in Focus is a “Think Tank Without Walls” connecting the research and action of more than 600 scholars, advocates, and activists seeking to make the United States a more responsible global partner. It is a project of the Institute for Policy Studies. FPIF publishes timely commentaries on U.S. foreign policy, sharp analyses of global issues, and on-the-ground dispatches from around the world. We also are interested in pieces that explore the intersection of foreign policy and culture, and on dispatches from social movements involved in foreign policy.

Iran

Trump put the US on a War footing Iran: Biden must Reverse that Immediately

By Manon Dark | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The current controversy over Iran’s nuclear program is one of Trump’s lingering foreign policy legacies that has proved particularly difficult for President Joe Biden to resolve. The U.S. withdrawal in May 2018 from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or the Iran nuclear […]

Far Right

Republican Leaders are de Facto Justifying Fascist Violence: Don’t let them off the Hook

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Fascism is not just about violence. It’s also about politics.

Democratic Party

The Left must Seize the Initiative: Biden’s Centrist Instincts could be Disastrous

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By Walden Bello | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Donald Trump embarked on an unorthodox course in economic policy that combined tax cuts for the rich with a protectionist trade policy that was ostensibly aimed at saving the U.S. industrial base and preventing the export of American jobs. The question is not whether […]

Israel/ Palestine

Trump Moves to Involve U.S. Businesses and Academics in the Occupation of Palestine

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By Edward Hunt | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – In a little-noticed move before the U.S. presidential election, the Trump administration bestowed another major gift upon Israel’s right-wing government, lifting restrictions on U.S. funding of joint U.S.-Israeli research projects in illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine. For the past several decades, U.S. businesses and […]

US Foreign Policy

U.S. War Crimes in Yemen: Stop Looking the Other Way

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By Andrea Prasow | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The longstanding involvement of the United States in the conflict in Yemen is facing renewed scrutiny. On September 16, State Department officials testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about whether the State Department misled Congress — and the American people — by circumventing […]

Israel/ Palestine

Why the Israel-UAE Deal Isn’t About Peace at All

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By Phyllis Bennis | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – In some ways, the U.S.-brokered plan for mutual recognition between Israel and the United Arab Emirates is big news. For more than a quarter of a century, only two Middle Eastern countries — Egypt and Jordan — had officially recognized Israel. None of the […]

Militarization

How the Police and the Pentagon Are Bringing Our Wars Home

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By William J. Barber and Phyllis Bennis Originally published in Inside Sources. ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – Uniformed U.S. soldiers occupied the center of the city, where an armored personnel carrier was stationed at a major intersection. Was it Kabul or Atlanta? A U.S. military helicopter hovered over crowds of unarmed civilians, its down-drafts […]

Epidemics

Business as Usual won’t Survive the Pandemic: The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism

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By Walden Bello | – The morning will come When the world is mine. Tomorrow belongs to me! From Cabaret (Foreign Policy in Focus) – In response to the cataclysm occasioned by the coronavirus, three lines of thinking are emerging. One is that the emergency necessitates extraordinary measures, but the basic structure of production and […]

Epidemics

How the Corporate Food System Is Making the Coronavirus Crisis Worse

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By Walden Bello | – ( Foreign Policy in Focus) – The global food system has been very much front and center in the COVID-19 story. Everyone, of course, is aware that hunger is closely tracking the virus as its wreaks havoc in both the global North and global South. Indeed, one can say that, […]