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.

Though Americans fear a decline in the country's global influence, Stephen M. Walt argues that this may be an unnecessary fear.

Randall Stross follows one of the summer 2011 start-ups considered by Y Combinator for the summer 2011 batch of investments from tryout to "Demo Day," to see what it takes.

The national survey on Foreign Policy Matters in 2012 discusses the views of the American public on the United States and its role in foreign policy.

If a solution to the looming fiscal cliff in the U.S. continues to be stymied by partisanship, another dip back into recession is inevitable.

A clean revolution could enhance U.S. energy security and create a stronger economy, yet arguments for it are unlikely to find their way into the presidential campaign, argues John Elkington.

GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has asserted that Russia is America's "No. 1 geopolitical foe;" a claim that has been heavily criticized, but may still be true.

Syria's civil war, at its core a sectarian conflict, is viewed through the eyes of a fearful Alawite minority.

Reuters details the negotiations that led from ECB President Mario Draghi's late-July speech to his recent announcement that the ECB stood ready to buy "unlimited" amounts of bonds by the most troubled euro members.

The dissolution of the euro zone is inevitable according to British economist Roger Bootle. Hastening its split, rather than forestalling it, is the most prudent way of resolving the crisis.

An increasing wave of restrictions on religion spread across the world between 2009 and 2010 in all five of the major regions on the world, according to the Pew Forum.

The counterinsurgency in Syria yielded a destructive power that terrorized and forced Syria's propertied class into submission.