Over the last two years, Camp Lemmonier has been transformed into a Predator drone base for fighting terrorism by the U.S. military.

White House counterterrorism adviser John O. Brennan is compiling a "playbook" that will lay out the administration's procedures for the targeted killings that have come to define its fight against al-Qaeda and its affiliates.

Education must become a central focus to ensure a stable and prosperous U.S. in the future, write Margaret Spellings and Joel Klein. Klein lead the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force on U.S. Education Reform and National Security.

What do we really know about China's new leader?

The "fiscal cliff" facing the country recieved no mention during the four debates between presidential and vice presidential contenders for the 2012 election.

The post-war U.S. approach to strategy is rapidly becoming insolvent and unsustainable. If Washington continues to cling to its existing role on the premise that the international order depends upon it, the result will be increasing resistance, economic ruin, and strategic failure with consequences harming U.S. credibility, diplomacy, and military operations.

This report assesses regulations affecting domestic firms in 185 economies and ranks the economies in 10 areas of business regulation, such as starting a business, resolving insolvency and trading across borders.

For the past two years, the Obama administration has been developing a "disposition matrix," or tool for pursuing terrorists.

An increasing awareness of foreign policy matters among American voters has come to the fore in the 2012 election season, according to Politico.

The recent violence in Libya will be a major factor in the foreign policy-oriented debate between presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

Bloomberg argues that the recent spate of opinions suggesting that international comparisons cannot be made to the U.S. financial recovery are misguided.

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 Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic undertook a study of the impact that U.S. drone strikes have on civilian populations, as well as the difficulties in accurately tracking consequent civilian casualties.

According to a secret legal opinion for European Union finance ministers, a plan to create a single eurozone banking supervisor is illegal.

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.

In his new book, author David Quammen tracks the most deadly pandemics across the world.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is facing the question of finding a middle ground between confrontation and capitulation with Russia.

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

Sanctions historically work to subject a country's people, rather than its government, to poverty and undermine the populations welfare, as is ocurring in Iran right now.