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The Foreign Policy Essay: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy—Better Than It Looks
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The Foreign Policy Essay: ISIS’s Rejection of Al Qaeda—The End of an Era?
Editor’s Note: Cooperation among terrorist groups is dangerous, making them far more flexible and lethal in their operations. Yet such cooperation is rare, and when it occurs it can be fraught with prob... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Drivers of Terrorist Innovation—Al Qaeda and the Case of 9/11
Editor’s Note: Terrorist groups typically rely on tried and true tactics such as shootings, bombings, and of course suicide attacks. These and a handful of other methods represent the vast majority of te... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: The (Many) Hurdles to U.S. Stabilization Operations
Editor’s Note: The United States has repeatedly intervened to stabilize conflicts and build state capacity in the developing world. Most attention focuses on the desirability of military intervention an... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Frederic Wehrey on "The Roots--and Blowback--of the New Sectarianism"
Examples of religious strife are numerous in the Middle East and elsewhere. Yet more frequently, religious communities have lived side-by-side, if not always arm-in-arm. In the Middle East today, howev... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Charles Lister on "The anti-Jihadist Revolt in Syria"
The revolt against the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (greater Syria), usually referred to by its acronym ISIS, is the latest dramatic turn in the Syrian civil war. In the last few weeks, a range of r... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: "Syria's Other Foreign Fighters"
The Syria conflict hasn’t really stayed in Syria. The trickle of Sunni jihadists traveling to Syria to fight quickly became a flood, with their numbers rapidly surpassing those in past wars, the anti-Sov... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: "2013 – The Year We Lost Iraq?"
Violence in Iraq in 2013 was worse than at any time since 2008 – when Iraq was still in the throes of its all-out civil war that had led to over 100,000 deaths. And Iraq’s problems are getting worse, not... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: C. Christine Fair on "Lashkar-e-Taiba: Pakistan’s Domesticated Terrorists"
Lashkar-e-Tayiba (LeT), which operates under the name Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD), is both an important and misunderstood terrorist group. LeT grabbed world attention in 2008, when its operatives attacked hotel... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Elizabeth Dickinson on "Financing Extremism in Syria"
The civil war in Syria has confounded U.S. -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Oriana Skylar Mastro on "China’s ADIZ – A Successful Test of U.S. Resolve?"
China’s declaration of an Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea on November 23 confounded many observers, including veteran China-watchers. The move alarmed China’s neighbors and w... -
The Foreign Policy Essay: Cheng Li and Ryan McElveen on "NSA Revelations Have Irreparably Hurt U.S. Corporations in China"
Lawfare readers have followed and discussed the Snowden revelations with a mixture of dread and excitement. Our focus, understandably, is on the impact of the leaks on the intelligence community and on U...
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