Our foreign policy priority must be to transfer responsibility for Afghan security to their local army and police as quickly as possible. Our wider foreign policy must embrace stronger links and more diplomatic interest in the emerging powers. I welcome today’s change of emphasis in foreign policy. You could have read it here first. The

This is the blog of the Homeland Security Digital Library which is sponsored by the United States government US Department of Homeland Security and maintained by the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security. It provides timely comment, news alerts and links to online resources relating to American homeland security. These include useful summaries and many links to full te...

This site contains the full-text of a bibliography compiled by staff from the Air University Fairchild Research Information Center. It provides a specialist listing of books, US government documents and journal articles relating to Afghanistan and international security. It includes coverage of US foreign policy, the war on terrorism and international security. There are links to many full-text re...

Dr. Robert D. Crane was a key player when America's foreign policy of the last half century was being established. He is a co-founder of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and was the principal foreign policy adviser to Richard Nixon from 1962 until he assumed the presidency in January 1969. He was then appointed Deputy Director for Planning at the National Security Cou...

I was a bit taken aback by Security Minister Lord West comments this morning about Gaza fueling terrorism. Of course he is right that foreign policy can drive radicalisation, but that doesn't mean you should temper your foreign policy to avoid upsetting radical Islamists, any more than you should shape your immigration policy to appease the BNP. Reacting to bits of UK foreign policy you don't like...

An interesting interactive tool developed by the Guttman Center at the Israel Democracy Institute which enables voters to find information about the policies of the various political parties and where they stand in relation to them. After answerign a series of questions on topics such as foreign policy and security, social-economic policy and religion and state, a red compass needle indicates the ...

Nationally elected ministers decide on the common foreign and security policy (CFSP) of the European Union in Brussels. Currently the foreign ministers meet in the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC), but if the Treaty of Lisbon enters into force, they would convene in the Foreign Affairs Council (FAC), while the coordination of Council activities would take place in the General...

Britain is to strike out with a new foreign policy centred on forging improved links with developing nations such as India and Brazil.

Last night was a great one for FP. Here's the press release: FOREIGN POLICY has won the magazine industry’s most coveted prize, the National Magazine Award for General Excellence. The announcement came last night at the 44th presentation of The National Magazine Awards, held at Lincoln Center in New York City.   In reaction to the win, FOREIGN POLICY Editor in Chief Moisés N...

Reports that the Tories are thinking about appointing a Minister for Afghanistan raise the broader question of how they should structure their national security team. Though the Tories bang on about their idea of setting up a National Security Council, there has been precious little detail given  of how it would work, how it would be different than the Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat i...