Caribbean

The Chinese Are Coming!

Beijing is building schools and stadiums in the Caribbean. Washington should avoid the temptation to overreact. 

NGOs: The New Missionaries

What NGO workers embroiled in scandal in Cairo could have learned from the trials of early 20th-century Cuban missionaries.

Ostracism Madness

Isolating Iran serves no American national interest. It's a knee-jerk, ape-on-a-treadmill response that benefits no one.

Washington's Foreign-Policy Hypochondria

Why the U.S. has become the meddling Aunt Myrtle of the international community.

Tripoli Today, Havana Tomorrow?

Castro may have survived the 1989 revolution wave. He is unlikely to make it a second time.

Five Political Corpses in 2011

The impending deaths of these five autocrats will have global repercussions. 

In Search of a Defensible Detention Policy

The problem of dealing with terrorist detainees keeps getting murkier and muddier. Ideas, anyone?

Corrupting Counterterrorism

A list of terrorism sponsors? Or just a salient indicator of official U.S. opprobrium?

Violence in Mexico, Communism’s a Flop, and Other Startling Discoveries

If Fidel Castro can finally come to grips with Communism's demise, maybe there's hope for American policy makers.

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May 26, 2012