Sheri Berman describes Louis XIV’s approach to state-building in Foreign Affairs: During the second half of the seventeenth century, accordingly, he and his ministers focused on buying off and winning over key individuals and social...

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If there is one thing that Americans detest, it is a foreign country meddling in our internal affairs. On the flip side, that is exactly what U.S. officials are doing in efforts to broker a peace treaty and create a two-state soluti...

The European Union welcomes Georgia's new policy on South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the EU foreign affairs chief said on Wednesday....

The European Union condemns Israel's plans to build 1,600 housing units in East Jerusalem and calls on the Jewish state to reverse the decision, the EU foreign affairs chief said on Wednesday....

The Department of Foreign Affairs has launched a public consultation on encryption controls. Comments are due by April 30, 2010. ...

Politico's Laura Rozen paints a disturbing picture of the chain of events that ultimately led the House Foreign Affairs Committee to pass the Armenian "genocide" resolution last Thursday. Until last week, it appeared that the White ...

Last week the foreign affairs committee of the US House of Representatives resolved by a narrow margin to condemn the massacres of the Armenians in 1915 as a genocide. This has led to a certain amount of negative press comment....

SPEECH DELIVERED BY BRUNO RODRIGUEZ PARILLA, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA, AT THE HIGH LEVEL SEGMENT OF THE THIRTEENTH SESSION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL Geneva March 3, 2010 Mr. President, It took 60 million...

By a one-vote margin, the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed the Armenian genocide resolution, but if what happened last year is any indication it will either not be brought to a vote or it will be voted down. We already know t...

It was a close vote, 23-22, but the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted yesterday, if I may quote the NYT, “to condemn as genocide the mass killings of Armenians early in the last century, defying a last-minute plea from the Obama...

Yesterday the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a resolution that calls upon President Obama to recognize "the systematic and deliberate annihilation" of 1.5 million Armenians during and after World War I "as genocide....

Azerbaijani MPs condemned on Friday the decision by the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee to approve a bill on the killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I....

By Michael J.W. StickingsIt was a close vote, 23-22, but the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted yesterday, if I may quote the NYT, "to condemn as genocide the mass killings of Armenians early in the last century, defying a last-m...

Armenian groups in the United States rejoiced as the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee narrowly approved a resolution condemning as genocide the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I....

In what turned out to be a nail-biting vote, the US congressional House Foreign Affairs Committee today voted on a non-binding resolution recognizing the massacre and deportation of Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire as Genocide...

Turkey is recalling its ambassador to the US following a resolution declaring the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I to be genocide. The move came minutes after the House Foreign Affairs Committee e...

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives has approved a resolution recognizing the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I....

I attended a media briefing at the Turkish Embassy yesterday, during which a group of visiting Turkish Foreign Affairs Committee members urged the U.S. House of Representatives not to pass H.R. 252 - which accuses Turkey of committi...

This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Goodluck, Nigeria President Umaru Yar'Adua, Nigeria's ill ruler, returned home from Saudi Arabia this week. He had been...