List of Iraq articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Founding Mothers?
Many Iraqi women are defying cultural conservatives and danger outside their doors to participate in Iraq's incipient government and civil society. Here are some who are taking the risk.
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Iraq’s Excluded Women
Building democracy in Iraq will prove impossible without immediate leadership from the country's forsaken majority: its women. But while the Bush administration trumpets women's rights in the Middle East, it neglects to back words with action. The failure to empower women would condemn Iraq to the fate of its Arab neighbors -- autocracy, economic stagnation, and social malaise.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Think Again: Mercenaries
"How is it in our nation's interest," asked U.S. Sen. Carl Levin recently, "to have civilian contractors, rather than military personnel, performing vital national security functions... in a war zone?" The answer lies in humanity's long history of contracting force and the changing role of today's private security firms. Even as governments debate how to hold them accountable, these hired guns are rapidly becoming indispensable to national militaries, private corporations, and non-governmental groups across the globe.
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Voice of a Superpower
The 2004 U.S. presidential election may be the first in decades to center on the candidates' foreign-policy views. So what do most Americans really think about Iraq, terrorism, North Korea, and free trade? Herewith an "interview" with the American people, with each answer reflecting majority positions in recent opinion polls. Americans' surprising preferences offer insight into what voters want from their next president.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Call in the Civilians
Counterinsurgency is at least 50 percent civilian. So where have all the Foreign Service officers gone?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rules with Teeth
The Iraq crisis reveals the need for a better approach than either militant unilateralism or feel-good multilateralism.
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