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The Election 2012 Weekly Report: Drumbeats of August

Obama and Romney spar on Afghanistan At a surprise appearance at the daily White House press conference on Monday, President Barack Obama addressed a number of foreign-policy issues, notably Syria and Afghanistan. On Syria, the president seemed to rule...

Published Fri, Aug 24 2012 3:16 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Report

Morning Brief: No Evidence of Russian Drawdown as NATO Meets in Brussels

No Evidence of Russian Drawdown as NATO Meets in Brussels Top News: Despite reports that Russia had begun withdrawing its troops massed along the eastern border of Ukraine, which Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed with German Chancellor Angela...

Published Tue, Apr 01 2014 4:50 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Did Russia's Libya ambassador call Medvedev a traitor?

Russia's ruling tandem are playing down the importance of their brief public spat over Vladimir Putin's description of the international mission in Libya as a "crusade," and as Julia Ioffe points out , there was probably less to the...

Published Thu, Mar 24 2011 9:51 AM by FP Passport

World Bank: China can grow at 8% for 20 years

World Bank Chief Economist Justin Lin says China will be able to maintain is magic growth number of 8 percent over the next two decades and may eventually be double the size of the U.S. economy: The nation can continue to exploit a “latecomer” advantage...

Published Thu, Mar 24 2011 10:40 AM by FP Passport

Bunkered down with Uncle Curly

Today, Foreign Policy is lucky to play host to Ryan Calder's Benghazi diary . Calder, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has been blogging from Libya since he arrived there four days before the international...

Published Fri, Apr 08 2011 12:50 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Libya, Dispatch from the Revolution

Does the "Obama doctrine" apply to the Ivory Coast?

Not 30 minutes after Barack Obama had finished speaking last night, the pundits on CNN, the Tweetosphere, and the blogosphere, were abuzz with talk of a new "Obama doctrine" defined by the notion that the United States -- unlike some countries...

Published Tue, Mar 29 2011 8:13 AM by FP Passport

U.S. Airstrikes Hit Islamic State Fighters Near Erbil

Morning Brief: Pressure grows on Strauss-Kahn to resign

Pressure grows on Strauss-Kahn to resign Top news: Pressure is growing on the arrested Dominique Strauss-Kahn to step down, with top financial officials from several key countries calling for his resignation . “He is obviously not in a position to run...

Published Wed, May 18 2011 5:42 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Why Obama's sagging foreign-policy support isn't as bad as it seems

Polling this week suggests that Barack Obama is pulling ahead of Mitt Romney in key swing states and erasing the Republican candidate's advantage on the economy. But the results include one piece of bad news: According to an NBC News/ Wall Street...

Published Wed, Sep 19 2012 11:00 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama

Democratic platform swaps 'American exceptionalism' for 'indispensable nation'

Last week, the GOP made the first ever reference to " American exceptionalism " in a party platform, using the buzzy term as the title for the document's foreign-policy section and defining the concept as the "conviction that our country...

Published Tue, Sep 04 2012 3:38 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Election Poster 2, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama

Alicia Silverstone writes to Putin, demands vegan meals for *** Riot defendant

Via, frequent FP contributor Shaun Walker on Twitter, I see that the PETA UK site is hosting a letter from Alicia Silverstone to Russian President Vladimir Putin, which addresses the real priority in the *** Riot trial. The Clueless star writes : Dear...

Published Wed, Aug 15 2012 7:22 AM by FP Passport

Panetta to staff: "A promise has been kept"

Here's CIA director and Defense Secretary nominee Leon Panetta's message to CIA staff this morning: Today, we have rid the world of the most infamous terrorist of our time. A US strike team stormed a compound in Abottabad, Pakistan and killed...

Published Mon, May 02 2011 8:43 AM by FP Passport

Paul Ryan's been through all Bernard Lewis's books

Impressive! Q: What do you read? Ryan: I go there. I read. I mean I’m a big Bernard Lewis fan. I’ve read all of Bernard Lewis’ books, and I read a lot of his books on this topic are. I formed the Middle East Caucus in early 2000s. On Ways and Means, which...

Published Wed, Aug 15 2012 10:20 AM by FP Passport

Domodedovo bombing: It's not about airport security

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says he's troubled by the security lapses that led to yesterday's Moscow airport bombing: “What occurred shows that there were violations in providing security,” Mr. Medvedev said in comments released by the Kremlin...

Published Tue, Jan 25 2011 8:26 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Russia

Prestowitz: How American is Jeff Immelt?

After Larry Summers announced last fall that he would be stepping down as President Obama's chief economic adviser, I publicly called on the president to appoint GE Chairman Jeff Immelt as Larry's successor. So you might think I would be thrilled...

Published Mon, Jan 24 2011 3:40 PM by FP Passport