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September 29, 2023

Human Rights
Women This Week: French Athletes Prohibited from Playing in Hijab for 2024 Olympic Games

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers September 23 to September 29.

Supporters of the women soccer team "Les Hijabeuses" play soccer in front of the city hall in Lille as part of a protest as French Senate examines a bill featuring controversial hijab ban in competitive sports in France, February 16, 2022.

July 16, 2012

Middle East and North Africa
Secretary Clinton Visits Israel

Secretary of State Clinton is in Israel today, which is a surprising fact. According to several news sites, she has not visited there in two years. Secretary Condoleezza Rice visited there about 20 …

Secretary Clinton and Prime Minister Netanyahu

August 7, 2013

Americas
Review of Smuggler Nation

In Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America (Oxford University Press, 2013), Peter Andreas, a professor in the Department of Political Science and the Watson Institute for International Studie…

Andreas pic - LAM

January 26, 2012

Israel
The President and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process in 2013

Over the course of the Obama administration, Washington’s objectives for Israeli-Palestinian peace have shifted dramatically. President Obama took office seeking to resolve the conflict within two ye…

Barack Obama takes the oath given by U.S. supreme chief justice John Roberts, Jr. during the inauguration ceremony in Washington on January 20, 2009. (Jim Bourg/Courtesy Reuters).

September 18, 2020

United States
Happy 73rd Birthday to the U.S Air Force!

The United States Air Force marks seventy-three years of service.

Air Force

July 8, 2012

Iran
In Search of a Middle East Policy

Secretary of State Clinton’s blast at Russia and China last Friday blamed them for holding up international action against the Assad regime in Syria, but surely their position on Syria was not news. …