AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS

A detailed, historical look into foreign direct investment in Sri Lanka, focusing on which industries and regions is benefiting the most from it.

U.S. Representative Tom Lantos (D-CA), the chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, died of esophageal cancer at Bethesda Naval Medical Center

It is now time for the foreign affairs edition of predictions for 2008. As with the political and movies editions, we approach the matter in the spirit of often in error, but never in doubt.

The role of Congress in foreign affairs has evolved and changed since the drafting of the Constitution more than 200 years ago. The relationship between the President and the Congress in foreign policy was meant to be a symbiotic one within the system of checks and balances.

Witty poem about Herman Cain's grasp of foreign policy.

"The Good Wife" had a very busy few days. Her husband's election was coming up. They wanted her to do a spousal interview. The Plaintiff believed his case was "cursed."

Padma and Marcus Samuelsson, Executive Chef and co-owner of Red Rooster and winner of this season's Top Chef Masters, presented this week's Quickfire Challenge.

An examination of the American populations interest in the news of politics and foreign events.

How does the president handle an overload of information with foreign policy?

Research into past and present politics and poplicies in two of the MidEast's most important- and controversioal nations.

Egypt made headlines when it initiates the Arab-Israel Wars, it led the Arab bloc to demand justice to the Palestinian cause,

In Afghanistan and Pakistan we've been wasting our money and our military youth's lives. In both it is probable that we're paying our enemy directly. Afghanistan's warlords' controlled tribal grouping precludes the hope of political reconciliation.

What would have been different had Kennedy lived through a second term.

If McCain loses in the November 4th presidential election, everybody including the majority of the Republicans would blame him for picking Sarah Palin as his running mate, and that could possibly end his 30-year career in Washington.

Will Americans elect the first VP in 87 years who hasn't met a head of state?

My secretary slipped an event on my speaking schedule once, sending me to speak on military and foreign affairs to a women's civic group. Imagine my surprise when I walked in on a natural childbirth class.

Barack Obama, in advance of the upcoming London Summit, sent out an e-mail to 30 newspapers around the world to discuss his global plans for fixing the world economy. By comparison, only three newspapers in America were sent the piece.

Assessment of reasons for differences between state of the union addresses by three historical U.S. Presidents.

"General Petraeus forcefully and effectively reported measurable gains to the joint session of the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees."

This essay continues the examination of the debates surrounding the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798. The dispute over foreign affairs was one of the key issues which separated the advocates of the Alien and Sedition Acts from their opponents.

Discussion of a "Foreign Affairs" article regarding gendered attitudes on war.

Discussion of a "Foreign Affairs" article regarding how multinational corporations are bringing human rights to the labor forces in foreign countries.

An analysis of the two film versions of Graham Greene's The Quiet American and the original pre-Vietnam War novel. This is not a standard review so much as it is a compare and contrast of the films and book.