The economic climate and border security concerns have thrust the question of immigration reform into the spotlight in the 2012 presidential campaign.

Amid sluggish growth and high unemployment, the economy has emerged as the central issue of the 2012 presidential campaign, as the candidates debate the role of government in jumpstarting the economy and creating jobs.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney accuse China of currency manipulation and unfair trade practices and support an expanded U.S. presence in Asia, but Romney dismisses the president's efforts as inadequate.

The presidential candidates generally agree on support for democracy and human rights in Arab states, but have differed on several policy particulars, such as military intervention in Libya and Syria.

President Obama is generally supportive of the UN mission while raising questions about its effectiveness, but GOP candidate Mitt Romney is harshly critical of the organization.

Both presidential candidates have called for expanding U.S. energy production to create jobs, even as they disagree over the role of government subsidies and environmental regulation.

Iran's nuclear ambitions have tended to dominate discussions in the U.S. presidential campaigns over nuclear nonproliferation.

President Obama has expanded sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear ambitions while making attempts to engage with it, but Mitt Romney has criticized the engagement policy as weak.

Steven Weinberg, Garry Wills, and Jeffrey D. Sachs discuss difficulties and various aspects of the candidacies of President Obama and Mitt Romney in the 2012 Presidential election.

The imminent fiscal decision to be made between Election Day and Inauguration over the budget crisis could be a determining factor in the results of the coming election.

The 2012 Presidential election could boil down to one very important issue; coal, says Foreign Policy.

The second debate between President Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took place on October 16, 2012 at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY.This transcript was provided by Politico.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says, in Thursday night's debate, Vice President Biden worked to portray Paul Ryan as the candidate most in favor of continuing the unpopular fight in Afghanistan, a war that President Obama advanced and that the public no longer backs.

In this column, Julia E. Sweig argues that President Obama's foreign policy positions will make it difficult for Mitt Romney to define his agenda against Obama's in the run up to the election.

Edward Alden discusses the mixed views of U.S. voters on trade and the damaging effect criticism of Chinese trade practices on the campaign trail has on U.S. attempts to court Chinese investment.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says Mitt Romney's major foreign policy speech on Monday reflects a vision for America's role in the world that is both far more forward-leaning than the current administration has exercised and far less energetic than Bush's.

A recent Foreign Policy Initiative poll shows that voters find foreign policy a much more important issue than conventional wisdom would suggest.

The first debate between President Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney was held on October 3, 2012 in Denver,Colorado and was moderated by Jim Lehrer. This transcript was provided by Politico.

This campaign season, President Obama and Mitt Romney have remained focused on domestic issues in the "face of a gasping economy and long-term joblessness," argues Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. However, given pressing concerns raised by Afghanistan and the Middle East, among other foreign policy issues, the candidates will soon have to address international affairs issues.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney wrote this op-ed on the Middle East; it was published in the Wall Street Journal on September 30, 2012.