Magazine Archive
2014
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July/August 2014
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The Path of Least Resistance
Why India's biggest problem isn't Narendra Modi.
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Back to Basics
Looking for an alternative to dysfunction in Washington? Maybe it's time to turn to Berlin.
Christian Caryl -
Did Hitler Bring Home the Bacon?
Why even the Fuhrer was a proponent of pork barrel spending.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
How Do You Say 'Let the Fat Man Die' in French?
How language influences morals.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
We Don't Need No Education
Thought control in the classroom is real -- and it works.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
Epiphanies from Jack Matlock
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack Matlock on the flawed “reset” with Russia, Washington’s cliques, and how the Ukraine crisis is a product of NATO expansion.
Elias Groll -
Third Gender: A Short History
From ancient Greece to modern Pakistan, the political and cultural emergence of a complex, controversial term.
Jake Scobey-Thal
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Have We Hit Peak America?
The sources of U.S. power and the path to national renaissance.
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The Bleeding Edge
For decades, Minnesota has led the world in developing medical technology. But now red tape at home and competition abroad are threatening its dominance.
Sarah Laskow
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THE WAR ISSUE
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Portrait of the Army as a Work in Progress
The service's plan to revamp itself for the post-post-9/11 world is ambiguous and rife with contradiction. That's what makes it brilliant.
Rosa Brooks
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The Things They Carried: The Dinosaur Hunter
What you bring with you to work in the morning when you’re looking for the world’s oldest bones.
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Arctic Sovereignty: A Short History
How a frigid no man's land became one of the most hotly contested territories on Earth.
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Poverty: Not a Crime, but in Our DNA
How hardship makes children grow up faster -- literally.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
Watch Yourself Clean
How to shake off those regrets -- no Lady Macbeth routine required.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
Law & Order: Rogue States Unit
What a peek inside America's prisons can tell us about U.S.-Iran relations.
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Epiphanies from Hank Paulson
The former U.S. Treasury secretary on China's economy, bitcoin, and the problem with new ideas.
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'The State Doesn't Exist for You'
Israel says it wants to lift its Bedouin citizens out of poverty. But it keeps demolishing their villages.
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Putin's Empire of the Mind
How Russia's president morphed from realist to ideologue -- and what he'll do next.
Mark Galeotti
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Can an American Soldier Ever Die in Vain?
What Shakespeare, Lincoln, and "Lone Survivor" teach us about the danger of refusing to confront futility in war.
Elizabeth Samet
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10 Million Sardines in a Sea of Skyscrapers
How sprawling megacities -- from Lagos to Mumbai -- might just save the world.
Jonathan Kalan
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Ctrl + Alt + Delete
Resetting America's military.
Shawn Brimley -
Target:?
The United States has spent $1 billion on a weapon that has no mission. And started an arms race with China in the process.
James M. Acton -
The Looming Robotics Gap
Why America's global dominance in military technology is starting to crumble.
Michael C. Horowitz
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High-Speed Empire
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'On Va Tuer Les Demons'
('We Will Kill the Demons')Fear, faith, and the hunt for child sorcerers in Congo.
Deni Béchard -
Does the Academy Matter?
Do policymakers listen? Should you get a Ph.D.? And where are all the women?
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High-Speed Empire
Chinese rail is sprawling, modern, and elegant. It's also convoluted, corroding, and financially alarming. Wanna take a ride?
Tom Zoellner -
The Coming Revolution in Orbit
How space went from a superpowers-only club to a DIY playground.
Zach Rosenberg
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The Things They Carried: The Afghan Election Observer
What Afghanistan's international monitors pack for the most pivotal -- and dangerous -- political contest since 2001.
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Puntland Is for Pirates
Why are convicted high-seas bandits being sent to the Somali region that profits from their crimes?
Jillian Keenan -
Al Qaeda Core: A Short History
How the franchise operations of the world's most infamous terrorist organization became more potent than the mothership.
Ty McCormick -
When No One's Looking
Election monitors aren't stopping violence -- they're just making sure it happens before they get there.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
The Slow Track to Happiness
Religion makes you poorer. It also makes you happier. If you think that's a contradiction, you're wrong.
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Constitutional Confidence
What "We the People" tells us about trust in our fellow Americans.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
Learning Curve
Why more and more parents in poor countries are paying to send their kids to private school.
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Zionist Movement
How AIPAC is severing its historical roots -- and weakening its influence.
John B. Judis
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The Reckoning
After decades of censorship, Burma's filmmakers probe their country's dark past.
Francis Wade
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Think Again: Climate Treaties
Why the glacial pace of climate diplomacy isn't ruining the planet.
David Shorr
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Our Man in Africa
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The Longitude of Latitude
Could rising temperatures hurt democracy?
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Leftists for Life
Why the Great Recession's "lost generation" may be lost to the right wing -- forever.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
Lethal Autonomy: A Short History
How killer robots became more than just scary science fiction.
Ty McCormick -
Stockholm's Singles Syndrome
Why the unmarried and childless are singing the welfare state blues.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
The Things They Carried: The Chemical Weapons Inspector
What to pack for the Syrian front lines.
Blake Evans-Pritchard -
Roiling the Waters
Why the United States needs to stop playing peacemaker and start making China feel uncomfortable.
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Epiphanies from Kevin Rudd
Australia's former prime minister on tensions in the Pacific, China's leadership, and the language of diplomacy.
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The Islamic Republic of Baby-Making
How the supreme leader's revolutionary acceptance of cutting-edge fertility treatments is changing lives in Iran -- and unsettling the deeply conservative Sunni Middle East.
Azadeh Moaveni -
Trial by Fire
What crises lie in wait for Janet Yellen?
Mohamed A. El-Erian
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Think Again: Prostitution
Why zero tolerance makes for bad policy on world's oldest profession.
Aziza Ahmed
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The Littlest Boy
Twenty years after Hiroshima, elite American troops trained to stop a Soviet invasion -- with nuclear weapons strapped to their backs.
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Closing the Books
Should the world's "last Nazi hunter" give up the chase?
Katie Engelhart -
Our Man in Africa
America championed a bloodthirsty torturer to fight the original war on terror. Now, he is finally being brought to justice.
Michael Bronner -
The Disappeared
Reporting and surviving a war with no rules.
James Traub
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The Global Thinkers Issue
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The Leading Global Thinkers of 2013
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No Quiet on the Western Front
The eurozone lived to fight another day. But a new battle is brewing.
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The Design and Fall of Civilizations
The technology uncovering humanity's past -- and perhaps its future.
Douglas Preston -
Resurrection
Pope Francis brings the freshness of the Gospel to the Catholic Church.
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The Kerry Doctrine
The secretary of state's go-big-or-go-home foreign policy.
Douglas Brinkley -
Machines of Loving Grace
I'd rather risk becoming a terrorist's victim than live under a surveillance state.
William T. Vollmann -
The Rocketeer
Forget Tesla. Forget the Hyperloop. Elon Musk is all about space.
Michael Belfiore
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The Darknet: A Short History
A look at the Internet's lurid underbelly -- your one-stop shop for weapons, drugs, and illegal pornography.
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Use It or Lose It
The ugly consequences of expiring budgets.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
What's an African Life Worth?
What crocodile-infested rivers and hovercrafts tell us about how people value their own safety.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
The Middle-Class Syrian Refugee
What do you carry when you've left a life behind?
Bryan Denton -
Epiphanies from Leon Panetta
The spy chief who nailed Osama bin Laden reflects on Syria, Iran, and the most dysfunctional U.S. Congress in recent memory.
Ty McCormick -
The Selfish State
Why ladder-climbers might make the best do-gooders.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
Hack Tibet
Welcome to Dharamsala, ground zero in China's cyberwar.
Jonathan Kaiman -
Augustine's World
What Late Antiquity says about the 21st century and the Syrian crisis.
Robert D. Kaplan -
Oppa Gangnam Bubble
How investor irrationality and last year's biggest hit combined to send an obscure semiconductor company's stock price surging.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer
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Most Favored Narrations
The 10 best books, according to China's ruling elite.
Isaac Stone Fish
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Think Again: Mexican Drug Cartels
They aren't just about Mexico or drugs anymore.
Evelyn Krache Morris
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September/October 2013
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Straight Up
How Johnnie Walker conquered the world.
Afshin Molavi -
Make Them Eat Cake
How America is exporting its obesity epidemic.
John Norris -
The Snaxis of Evil
A journey with food writer Mark Bittman into the bellies of America's enemies.
Justin Rohrlich -
The Big Bet
Everyone is trying to cash in on China's gambling addiction. But does Beijing have an ace up its sleeve?
Isaac Stone Fish -
Fluid Markets
Deep in Congo's violent east, the business of beer meets the ugliness of war.
Jason Miklian -
Cooking in Karachi
The world's most dangerous megacity is the next frontier in the global meth trade.
Taimur Khan
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How Lincoln Shaped Obama's World
The morally conflicted world views of the two sons of Illinois.
Kevin Peraino -
Geoengineering: A Short History
How hacking the climate came to be seen as our least worst option for averting a global climate catastrophe.
Ty McCormick -
Psych the Vote
Five surprising insights into voting behavior from the cutting edge of psychology.
Joshua E. Keating -
When Poor People Sneeze,
Banks Catch a ColdInfectious disease isn't just a health risk. It can take down an entire financial system.
Joshua E. Keating -
Moms vs. Markets
Why home cooking can lead to weaker economic performance -- and more dysfunctional politics to boot.
Joshua E. Keating -
The Island Lobbyist
What Japan's Senkakus advocate brings to meetings on Capitol Hill.
Isaac Stone Fish -
The Long Haul
The monumental task of packing up a war.
Amie Ferris-Rotman
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Muse of the Revolution
A Syrian-American writer finds her voice, with help from Libya's most famous novelist.
Amal Hanano
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The United States of Tacos
It's Americans, not Mexicans, who are responsible for the rise of margaritas and moles north of the border.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
It Takes a Village
Why Africa won't wait for Western do-gooders to save a continent.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
Ottawa Is No Caracas
Debating what it means to be a "rogue petrostate."
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
Congo Is Too Big to Fail
We've already tried breaking up the DRC -- and more than 1 million people died.
Mvemba Dizolele -
Getting to Equal
How Norway is doing the hard work of achieving gender equality.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer
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Think Again: American Nuclear Disarmament
A smaller atomic arsenal isn't just wishful thinking -- it's bad strategy.
Matthew Kroenig
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July/August 2013
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The 2013 Failed States Index - Interactive Map and Rankings
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Mad Libs: Africa Rising?
FP asked more than 60 experts to fill in the blanks on the state of politics in Africa and whether its much-touted economic rise is for real.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer
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Oh, Canada
How America's friendly northern neighbor became a rogue, reckless petrostate.
Andrew Nikiforuk -
Gamification: A Short History
Why everybody, from corporate titans to terrorists, wants to make life more like a game.
Ty McCormick -
Epiphanies from Frank Gehry
The starchitect on his first project in the Arab world -- and why it's hard these days to find a benevolent dictator with taste.
Benjamin Pauker -
The North Korean Defector
What Kim Hyuk has carried with him on his harrowing journey from the streets to the speaking circuit.
Chico Harlan -
In Search of Mickey Li's
Why doesn't China have its own fast-food mega-chain?
Paul French -
Fast-Food Nations
Six regional chains that are learning to compete with U.S. fast-food giants.
Joshua E. Keating -
The Great App Firewall
Five iPhone programs you can't use in China.
Isaac Stone Fish -
After Bernanke
Yes, he saved the global economy. But will he leave behind a ticking time bomb?
Mohamed A. El-Erian
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The Cookbook Theory of Economics
Why Chinese and Mexican dominate the market.
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Recipe for Living: Add Rice. Stir.
The grain that sustains the war weary.
Anna Badkhen -
Austerity Lentils
What a country cooks when it's collapsing.
Joanna Kakissis -
Market Revolution
How Poland learned to love its own cuisine.
Anne Applebaum
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Russia's Rottweiler or Putin's Poodle?
Sergei Lavrov's misreading of Russian history.
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Ditherer-in-Chief
Forget "leading from behind." Obama's Middle East strategy is closer to "pleading from behind."
Peter Sullivan -
Hold That Prize!
Walmart might be saving millions of people money, but it still doesn't pay its employees a living wage.
Peter Sullivan
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Think Again: Working Women
Why American women are better off than the lean-inners and have-it-allers realize.
Kay Hymowitz
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May/June 2013
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Minister No
Sergei Lavrov and the blunt logic of Russian power.
Susan B. Glasser -
The Driver
An exclusive look inside the mysterious death and life of the world's most dangerous terrorist not named Osama bin Laden.
Mark Perry -
Xi's War Drums
China's new leader is using the military to consolidate his power. But has he unleashed forces beyond his control?
John Garnaut -
Soft (Drink) Power
The head of the world's most global beverage company on climate change, power in the post-crisis era, and how Coke's secret formula stays safe from hackers.
Ian Bremmer -
The End of the Gandhis
Can Rahul Gandhi run India? Can anybody?
James Traub
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In Defense of Leading from Behind
So what if it's a terrible slogan? It's still the right strategy.
Leslie H. Gelb -
11 BuzzFeed Lists That Explain the World
The viral Internet isn't just for stupid pet tricks anymore.
Ben Smith -
Hacktivism: A Short History
How self-absorbed computer nerds became a powerful force for freedom.
Ty McCormick -
The Doctor Without Borders
What MSF founder Jacques Bérès takes with him to the field.
Eric Pape -
You Can't Go Home Again
An exiled journalist returns to a changed Burma.
Min Zin
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The Singularity of Fools
A special report from the utopian future.
David Rieff
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Springtime in Kabul
While the media obsessed over the missteps, Afghans were building a better future.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
Minority Report
Should presidents seek out dissent?
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
Freedom's March
History might not be ending, but democracy is still gaining ground.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
Mission Creep
Charles Kenny is too quick to encourage people to give up their privacy.
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Storming the Hill
Thomas P.M. Barnett lets the White House off the hook for the Pentagon's dysfunction.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer
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Think Again: European Decline
Sure, it may seem as if Europe is down and out. But things are far, far better than they look.
Mark Leonard
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March/April 2013
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The Inside Story of How the White House Let Diplomacy Fail in Afghanistan
"My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience."
Vali Nasr -
State of War
FP surveyed more than 70 experts on today's global conflicts, with John Arquilla guiding us through the results.
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Mad Libs: War Edition
FP asked more than 70 top military thinkers to fill in the blanks on the world's global conflicts -- from the drone wars to the budget wars.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer
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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Democracy is in retreat. And there's a surprising culprit.
Joshua Kurlantzick -
Frontier Markets: A Short History
How second-generation emerging markets became today's hottest investment story.
Ty McCormick -
Terror Management
Could a shared fear of climate change unite enemies?
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Life After Death
How the plague made modern Europe.
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The Things They Carried: The Congolese Rebel
Maj. John Imani Nzenze, an M23 rebel commander, reveals what's in his camouflage backpack.
Anjan Sundaram
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'Homeland' in the Holy Land
A TV thriller taps into Israel's collective subconscious.
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Insecurity Camera
Homeland and the Israeli show that inspired it aren't the only thrillers that tackle their countries' deepest national security concerns. Here are five other programs that tap into national psyches.
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The KGB Oscars
In Putin's Russia, it's the spies that are handing out the awards for the year's best movies.
Simon Shuster
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Obama's Grand Strategy
America's relative decline means that defense and social spending will have to compete head to head, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
Republican Reincarnation
The GOP needs to let go of myths about its past to move forward.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer -
Mind the Gap
Charles Kenny is too quick to call off the clash of civilizations.
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer
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Think Again: The Pentagon
The military's Chicken Littles want you to think the sky is falling. Don't believe them: America has never been safer.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
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Geek Squad
How behavioral scientists could make Obama's second term a success.
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The Baby Menace
Are we too worried about falling fertility rates?
Joshua E. Keating -
A New Law of Petropolitics
Sorry, Tom Friedman, higher oil prices don't always mean lower levels of democracy.
Joshua E. Keating -
The Law Still Stands
Why I stand by my arguments about oil and dictatorship.
Thomas L. Friedman -
The Things They Carried: The Third Amiga
What rising GOP star Kelly Ayotte takes with her to the Senate.
Benjamin Pauker -
Fiscal Cliff: A Short History
How did the phrase become shorthand for Washington's embrace of budget brinkmanship?
Uri Friedman
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The Disappeared
Even the Soviet Union eventually acknowledged Stalin's Great Famine. Why does China still hide evidence of its own mass starvation under Mao?
Frank Dikötter
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We're All Declinist Pundits These Days; Recession-Proof
FP's "Who Won the Great Recession?" package elicits reflections on U.S.-China power dynamics and how to succeed in business during hard times.
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Currency War
Debating Robert Zoellick's vision for reintegrating economics into U.S. foreign policy.
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Security Studies
The Honduran ambassador to the United States responds to James Verini.
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Why Work?
Will working less really make America more productive?
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BRIC by BRIC
Can these very different countries really manage to work together?
Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer
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Think Again: The Republican Party
The future of the GOP -- after the debacle.
Danielle Pletka
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December 2012
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The 'Grexits' of 2013
The four geopolitical buzzwords that could be just around the corner.
Ian Bremmer
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November 2012
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Prisoners Rule
Welcome to the deadliest city in the deadliest country in the world.
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The Mayor of Mogadishu
What the politician known as "Tarzan" carries as he goes about transforming the Somali capital.
Mohamed Mubarak -
The Changing Face of AIDS
The people most at risk today are not always who you'd expect.
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Lean Times
Do people live longer during recessions?
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Big Data: A Short History
How we arrived at a term to describe the potential and peril of today's data deluge.
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Blame Game
Want to avert another global recession? Stop the finger-pointing.
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The Myth That Screwed Up 50 Years of U.S. Foreign Policy
It's time to set the record straight about John F. Kennedy's handling of the Cuban missile crisis.
Leslie H. Gelb
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A Father's Secret…
And his journalist son's search for the truth.
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Declassified
The son of a Red Army intelligence officer sent to die in a Siberian gulag discovers his father's KGB file, and a cottage industry of children-of-spies memoirs.
Peter Buck Feller
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The Biggest Liars
If politicians are unusually dishonest, we citizens bear some of the responsibility.
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Raw Deal
Two top economists challenge Michael Grunwald's claim that Barack Obama's stimulus worked.
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In Defense of Le Corbusier
The architect would have influenced Chinese cities for the better -- if he'd had the chance.
Lois Farrow Parshley -
What's Chinese for 'Irrational Exuberance'?
China's explosive urban growth may not be sustainable.
Lois Farrow Parshley
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Think Again: The BRICS
Together, their GDP now nearly equals the United States. But are they really the future of the global economy?
Antoine van Agtmael
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September/October 2012
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PTSDland
How do you heal an entire country suffering from shell shock?
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Targeted Killings: A Short History
How America came to embrace assassination.
Uri Friedman -
The Generals' General
What Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno takes with him to the war zone.
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Tomorrow, We Save
Language offers a clue to countries' economic behavior.
Joshua E. Keating -
The Renminbi Blues
Why economic growth hasn't made the Chinese any happier.
Joshua E. Keating -
Why Bad Politics = Even Worse Markets
Want to fix the economy? Stop the partisan brinkmanship.
Mohamed A. El-Erian -
Liar, Liar
Are politicians really less honest than the rest of us?
Dan Ariely
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Con Air
What in-flight magazines don't want you to know about the world.
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Leftist Planet
Why do so many travel guides make excuses for dictators?
Michael Moynihan
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Boom Time
Energy independence is in the United States' reach.
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Revolutionary Calculus
Hussein Ibish is too quick to dismiss the Arab Spring as a failure.
Adrienne Klasa -
Failed States Index
The troubling ambiguity of FP's rankings. Plus: Finland comes in last for once.
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Assessing Hillary
Is America's 67th secretary of state a Seward or a Powell?
Adrienne Klasa
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Think Again: Obama's New Deal
The president's Republican critics are dead wrong. The stimulus worked.
Michael Grunwald
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July/August 2012
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Head of State
Hillary Clinton, the blind dissident, and the art of diplomacy in the Twitter era.
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Mad Libs: The Geopolitics of Energy
What does the U.S. oil and gas boom mean for international energy markets and climate change initiatives? We asked top experts, and here's what they told us.
Alessandra N Ram -
How Is Energy Remaking the World?
To navigate the complicated new politics of oil and gas, FP asked the author of The Quest and leading U.S. energy historian to help shape our latest survey -- and guide us through the results.
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General Mladic in The Hague
A report on evil in Europe -- and justice delayed.
Michael Dobbs
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Requiem for a Russian Spy
A CIA veteran remembers his Soviet counterpart.
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The Science of Ballot-Box Stuffing
What's the best way to detect electoral fraud? You may want to follow the numbers.
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Please, Don't Send Food
A new study suggests that food aid could actually prolong conflict rather than resolve it.
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'American Exceptionalism': A Short History
How did a phrase initially used dismissively by Joseph Stalin become shorthand for who loves America more?
Uri Friedman
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A Matter of Degrees
Do we really want multinational companies selling harmful lifestyles in the developing world?
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Terrorized
Facts on the ground just don't square with talk of an al Qaeda comeback.
Hillary Hurd -
The Persian Gulf
The divide between young Iranians and the regime is widening every day.
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Visualizing the War on Women Debate
A look at how the most popular cover story in Foreign Policy's history ricocheted across Twitter.
Lois Farrow Parshley -
Let's Talk About Sex
Four takes on Mona Eltahawy's cover piece on misogyny in the Middle East and Foreign Policy's inaugural Sex Issue.
Lois Farrow Parshley
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Think Again: The American
Energy BoomYes, oil and gas made in the USA is surging. But does that really liberate us from the Middle East?
Michael Levi
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May/June 2012
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The Most Powerful Women You've Never Heard Of
The Angela Merkels and Dilma Rousseffs get all the attention. But they're not the only female leaders running the world.
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Why Do They Hate Us?
The real war on women is in the Middle East.
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The Ayatollah Under the Bed(sheets)
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, all politics may not be sexual, but all sex is political.
Karim Sadjadpour -
The Bedroom State
The new politics of sex -- from Iran to India and 7 countries in between.
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Why Women Are a Foreign Policy Issue
The most pressing global problems simply won't be solved without the participation of women. Seriously, guys.
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The Startling Plight of China's Leftover Ladies
China's men far outnumber women. So why is it so hard to find a good husband?
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Mad Libs: Women in Politics
FP asked top female politicians around the world to fill in the blanks on sexism, women leaders, and breaking the glass ceiling.
Alessandra N Ram
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Still the One
Muammar al-Qaddafi may be history in Libya, but in this remote African kingdom he reigns supreme.
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The Things They Carried: The War Reporter
ABC News senior foreign affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz reveals what's inside her carry-on bag.
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Smart Sanctions: A Short History
How a blunt diplomatic tool morphed into the precision-guided measures we know today.
Uri Friedman -
Work Hard, Pray Hard
Do Muslim Americans embody the Protestant work ethic better than their Protestant counterparts?
Joshua E. Keating -
A Better Dictator
If you have to live under an authoritarian regime, which kind is best?
Joshua E. Keating -
The Qatar Bubble
Can this tiny, rich emirate really solve the Middle East's thorniest political conflicts?
Blake Hounshell
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Teaching Intolerance
You should see what even first graders have to read in Saudi Arabia.
Eman Al Nafjan -
The End of History in the New Libya
The Green Book is gone, but what will replace it?
Clare Morgana Gillis
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War and Peace
Do we need to take cyberattacks more seriously?
Alessandra N Ram -
Trust But Verify
How important is representative data in human rights work?
Allison Good -
Balance of Power
In the face-off between companies and countries, don't underestimate the growing power of the state.
Allison Good -
Occupy This!
An Occupy Wall Street leader highlights the global reach of his movement.
Allison Good -
Georgia on My Mind
The Georgian ambassador pushes back against Thomas de Waal's portrayal of his country.
Allison Good -
Strike Out
David Rohde says the Pakistani military finds drone strikes effective. But research suggests they increase terrorist activity in the short run.
Allison Good
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Think Again: Al Qaeda
A year after Osama bin Laden's death, the obituaries for his terrorist group are still way too premature.
Seth G. Jones
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March/April 2012
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Mad Libs: War Edition
What's on the horizon for warfare in 2012? FP asked some of the world's top experts to fill in the blanks.
Alessandra N Ram -
Collateral Damage
The "war on terror" still casts a long shadow in some unlikely places.
Paul Salopek
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How to Beat Obama
The president is far more vulnerable than he thinks on foreign policy.
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Hotels for Hacks
Six of the world's most notable "war hotels," in the words of journalists who spent time cooped up in them.
Alessandra N Ram -
The Ritz-Carlton of Failed States
Welcome to the Serena Hotels, outposts of multi-star luxury in countries with zero-star conditions.
Michael Z. Wise -
Within Our Grasp
U.S. presidents try, try, try to make peace in the Middle East.
Alessandra N Ram -
The 'Peace Process': A Short History
Chronicling Israel and Palestine's path to becoming a catchphrase.
Uri Friedman -
Fear Factor
Why is distrust of immigrants so universal?
Joshua E. Keating
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How Gogol* Explains the Post-Soviet World
(*And Chekhov and Dostoyevsky.) The case for (re)reading Russia's greatest literary classics.
Thomas de Waal
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What Does It Mean to Be European?
Commenters across the web react to "The Myth of Europe."
Alessandra N Ram -
Ties That Bind
There actually is a great deal that makes Europeans distinctive.
Alessandra N Ram -
Mission Critical
Author John Diamond says Paul R. Pillar may be understating the role that intelligence analysis plays in policy execution.
Alessandra N Ram -
Morality Play
It's not lamentable that South Africa lacks a moral foreign policy. We're just being realists.
Alessandra N Ram -
Decline Just Doesn't Translate
Most Chinese think real U.S. decline won't happen during their lifetimes. And Georgia might actually be less endangered by Russia if America declines.
Alessandra N Ram -
Peace Through Strength
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee says that the United States is cutting too deep into the defense budget.
Alessandra N Ram -
It's Party Time
Historian Lewis L. Gould says that James Traub is taknig the Republican contendors too seriously.
Kedar Pavgi
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Think Again: Cyberwar
Don't fear the digital bogeyman. Virtual conflict is still more hype than reality.
Thomas Rid
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The Beltway vs. the Ivory Tower
Why academics and policymakers don't get along.
Paul C. Avey -
View from the Top
Nine of the world's top international relations scholars weigh in on the Ivory Tower survey.
Kedar Pavgi -
The Ivory Tower Survey
How IR scholars see the world.
Paul C. Avey -
Pipeline to the Beltway?
Ranking which schools train the best candidates for jobs with the U.S. government.
Paul C. Avey -
The Top 10 International Relations Ph.D. Rankings
Schools for the next generation of global intellectual heavyweights.
Kedar Pavgi -
The Best International Relations Master's Programs
The top 10 programs for those looking to run the world.
Kedar Pavgi -
The Top Ten International Relations Undergraduate Programs
Where to start your fast-track to running the world.
Kedar Pavgi -
The FP Survey: Follow the Money
What's wrong with the world economy? We asked top experts to fill in the blanks -- and they had a lot to tell us.
Kedar Pavgi
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After America
How does the world look in an age of U.S. decline? Dangerously unstable.
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Epiphanies from Austan Goolsbee
President Obama's former economic advisor speaks out.
Benjamin Pauker -
Energy Independence: A Short History
A century and a half of an idea whose time has never come.
Charles Homans -
The Apathy Curve
The world's unhappiest and most content are on the move. What about those stuck in the middle?
Joshua E. Keating -
The Post-Colonial Hangover
Some empires really were worse than others.
Joshua E. Keating -
The Things They Carried: The Russian Oligarch
What does a Moscow billionaire take on vacation?
Julia Ioffe -
South Africa's Awkward Teenage Years
The Rainbow Nation has finally arrived on the world stage -- but did its conscience stay at home?
Eve Fairbanks
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Pakistan the Unreal
A son's tale of a death ripped from the headlines -- and the novel that foretold it.
Aatish Taseer -
True to Life
From Vietnam to Pakistan, writers have long turned to fiction to make sense of the news, often yielding uncanny portraits of real-life war, revolution, and cultural change. Here, Foreign Policy offers a sampler of novels that could have been straight out of the newspapers -- and sometimes even made them.
Margaret Slattery
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Food Aid: Stuff People Need
Ambassador Ertharin Cousin and Nancy Lindborg say U.S. food aid has come a long way since serving as a means of donating surplus commodities.
Kedar Pavgi -
Food or Cash?
According to the Catholic Relief Services, food aid can still do a great deal of good.
Kedar Pavgi -
Taking Exception
America's founding principles make the country unique, argues Marion Smith.
Kedar Pavgi -
Terms of Service
Would the United States really be better off with six-year presidential terms?
Kedar Pavgi -
Nuclear Fantasy
The executive director of Greenpeace International argues that the world needs less nuclear power, not more.
Kedar Pavgi
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Think Again: Intelligence
I served in the CIA for 28 years and I can tell you: America's screw-ups come from bad leaders, not lousy spies.
Paul R. Pillar
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End of the Argument
How we won the debate over stopping genocide.
Gareth Evans -
Life in a Glass House
A glimpse behind the closely watched door to Ai Weiwei’s studio.
Christina Larson -
It Ain't Easy Being a Central Banker
Spare a thought for the bureaucrats stuck with one of the most important, and miserable, jobs in the world.
Felix Salmon -
The Wisdom of the Smart Crowd
For the third year in a row, Foreign Policy polled the world's top Global Thinkers to ask everything from how Barack Obama's really doing on the economy to what the biggest threats to global stability are in a year of revolutions. (Hint: There's not a lot of bullishness in this group.) So take a look at what our brilliant collection of Nobel winners, paradigm-shattering authors, and leaders from around the world has to say about this momentous year and what's in store for 2012.
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What Do Saudi Women Want?
It's not as simple as driving, voting, and property.
Eman Al Nafjan -
The Big Think Behind the Arab Spring
Do the Middle East's revolutions have a unifying ideology?
Marc Lynch -
Does Facebook Have a Foreign Policy?
The social networking giant has the power to change the world for the better. But does it want to?
David Kirkpatrick -
A History of (Non)Violence
Why humans are becoming more peaceful.
Steven Pinker -
John Stuart Mill, Dead Thinker of the Year
The 19th century thinker still has much to teach us on liberty.
Robert D. Kaplan -
6 Ideas for the Ash Heap of History
The just-plain-wrong notions that (hopefully) bit the dust this year.
Tyler Cowen -
Global Thinkers, Fill in the Blanks
The world's smartest people tell us what to think about Barack Obama, the Arab Spring, and the dizzying events of 2011.
Suzanne Merkelson
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The World's Most Controversial Cultural Sites
Where ancient history meets modern politics.
Joshua E. Keating -
The New New Europe
How the crisis is reshaping the continent.
Joshua E. Keating -
The Stories You Missed in 2011
10 events and trends that were overlooked this year, but may be leading the headlines in 2012.
Joshua E. Keating -
Obama the Hawk
It may be hard to remember now, but America's current president first distinguished himself as an anti-war candidate, winning a Nobel Peace Prize after only a few months on the job. But as president, Barack Obama has more often than not played the tough guy.
Joshua E. Keating
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The World According to the GOP
What do the 2012 Republican candidates have to say about foreign policy?
Joshua E. Keating -
America at Dusk
FP asked a panel of writers from around the world to tell us what the United States is doing wrong. We got an earful.
Passport Administrator -
America's Pacific Century
The future of politics will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action.
Hillary Clinton -
The Myth of American Exceptionalism
The idea that the United States is uniquely virtuous may be comforting to Americans. Too bad it's not true.
Stephen M. Walt -
America Really Was That Great
… But that doesn't mean we are now.
Thomas L. Friedman -
The Elephants in the Room
Barack Obama's Republican challengers haven't thought very deeply about foreign policy. It shows.
James Traub -
Napoleon's Curse
The illusion of omnipotence has exhausted America and spoiled its allies.
Ian Buruma -
First Time's a Charm
Why America should ditch the two-term presidency.
Sunil Khilnani -
A Hummer in Every Driveway
Americans use more energy per capita than any other country, and have nothing to show for it.
Vaclav Smil -
The Perils of Loose Living
For decades, Americans have looked to monetary policy as an engine of economic growth -- and suffered the dire consequences.
Heleen Mees -
Cashing Out
America's status as the world's banker has shielded it from harsh economic realities for more than half a century. Not anymore.
Fan Gang -
Left Behind
Americans created the knowledge economy. So why can't they keep up with it anymore?
Mishaal al Gergawi
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The Things They Carried: The Afghan Policewoman
A BlackBerry knockoff, a pocket knife, and salt to throw in the eyes of bad guys.
Anna Badkhen -
Money Market
How the West was won -- in the Middle Ages
Joshua E. Keating -
Strange Trade
Recent research reveals the surprising unintended consequences of free trade
Joshua E. Keating -
Epiphanies from Nandan Nilekani
"Seattle has Bill," Thomas Friedman once wrote. "Bangalore has Nandan." The co-founder of Infosys -- the Indian company that made "outsourcing" a household word -- famously gave Friedman the central conceit for The World Is Flat when he said that global commerce's "playing field is being leveled" by communications technology. Now tasked with providing digital IDs to 1.2 billion Indians, Nandan Nilekani is trying to finish the job he started in the private sector: bringing a country that never entirely left the 19th century all the way into the 21st.
Charles Homans -
Haiti Doesn't Need Your Old T-Shirt
The West can (and should) stop dumping its hand-me-downs on the developing world.
Charles Kenny -
Responsibility to Protect: A Short History
Just what is a just war?
Charles Homans -
Country for Old Men
A dissident reports from the ruins of the daddy state, where Papá Fidel is now just the patient-in-chief.
Yoani Sánchez
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Written on the Wall
A tumultuous year, told through the scrawls and murals of the people living through it.
Roger Gastman -
Revolution in a Can
Graffiti is as American as apple pie, but much easier to export.
Blake Gopnik -
Conflict Graffiti
The art of war.
Paul Salopek
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The Numbers Game
U.N. spokesperson Elisabeth Byrs writes that David Rieff's accusations of casualty count inflation are unfair.
Russell Tepper -
Sea Change
The Cato Institute's Ted Galen Carpenter asks whether the United States can afford the naval confrontation with China envisioned by Robert Kaplan.
Russell Tepper -
Duchy of Hazard
Fernand Grulms of Luxembourg's national financial center is not amused by Eric Pape's tongue-in-cheek take on the country.
Russell Tepper -
The Jihad Deficit
Terrorism scholar Daveed Gartenstein-Ross says Charles Kurzman is underestimating the threat al Qaeda will pose in the coming decade.
Russell Tepper -
Dept. of Irony
Some readers didn't quite get our joke.
Suzanne Merkelson -
Waiting for the Revolutions
Don't blame the experts who didn't see the Arab Spring coming.
Kedar Pavgi -
Love and Robots
Artificial intelligence expert David Levy says relationships with robots might be even more complicated than Ayesha and Parag Khanna assume.
Russell Tepper
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Think Again: Nuclear Power
Japan melted down, but that doesn't mean the end of the atomic age.
Charles D. Ferguson
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The FP Survey: The Internet
You can't talk about the future without talking about the thing that's shaping the future the most. Some 20 years on, the Internet has upended entrenched business models, opened up a world of information to people all over the globe, and possibly even helped topple a dictator or two. But is the open web in danger? As 24/7 connectivity becomes an ever more inextricable part of our daily lives, FP asked some of the world's top experts to tell us where the Net is headed next.
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Why Is It So Hard to Find a Suicide Bomber These Days?
A decade after 9/11, the mystery is not why so many Muslims turn to terror -- but why so few have joined al Qaeda's jihad.
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War Games: A Short History
How ancient Greek amusements became an indispensable 21st-century military tool.
Charles Homans -
Millions May Die ... Or Not.
How disaster hype became a big global business.
David Rieff -
Epiphanies from Bob Woodward
A decade and five books later, the world's most famous investigative journalist has told us more about what happened behind closed doors in Washington's global war on terror than anyone. So how does he think it will be remembered?
Susan Glasser -
Huge in Asia
They may not play in Peoria anymore. But these storied American brands are reinventing themselves to sell in Shanghai.
Dustin Roasa -
Dangerous Aid
Does paying countries to fight terrorism always backfire?
Joshua E. Keating -
Rich Country, Poor Country
The economic divide continues to expand.
Joshua E. Keating -
The Things They Carried: The Plugged-in Foreign Minister
Carl Bildt, the gadget-obsessed, hyper-accessible Swedish foreign minister, says he spends more than 200 days on the road a year (and that's if his travel is "below average"). "You need to," he says, to "be able to influence things." In between catching the Paris Air Show and flying home for the Swedish midsummer holiday, he spoke with Foreign Policy about what's in his basic black Tumi carry-on.
Britt Peterson -
The Lap of Luxembourgery
So what if it has the world's highest per capita GDP? A visit to the debt-ridden capital of European complacency.
Eric Pape
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Dear Uncle Sam…
Why do India and Pakistan see America in such opposite ways?
Pankaj Mishra -
America the Brutiful
Yanks are starring on foreign screens -- and it ain't a pretty sight.
Michael Idov -
900 Channels of the Great Satan
In Iran's latest TV obsession, the Ugly American is -- themselves.
Azadeh Moaveni
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Going for Gorby
The not-so-lame afterlife of the Soviet Union's last leader.
Kelsey Suemnicht -
Moral Revolutions
The pursuit of truth and goodness is more complicated than it seems -- especially in Russia.
Kelsey Suemnicht -
My Soft Power
The top 10 reasons why Joe Nye's books keep landing on the recommended reading list for U.S. presidents.
Suzanne Merkelson -
Gangster's Paradise
Why we have to use the language of corruption when we talk about politics in Russia
Kelsey Suemnicht -
We Demand a Recount
The country is developing, not failing.
Kelsey Suemnicht
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Think Again: War
World peace could be closer than you think.
Joshua S. Goldstein
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July/August 2011
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Democracy Unleashed
With a flurry of elections hitting Africa this year, here are four countries where things could get lively -- maybe too lively.
Joelle Burbank -
Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong
*And why it matters today in a new age of revolution.
Leon Aron -
Meltdown
For the first time, Boris Yeltsin's right-hand man tells the inside story of the coup that killed glasnost -- and changed the world.
Gennady Burbulis with Michele A. Berdy -
The Long, Lame Afterlife of Mikhail Gorbachev
A cautionary tale about what happens when you fail to see the revolution coming.
Anne Applebaum -
The Great Rebalancing
With the world finally inching out of recession, the rules of global markets are being rewritten. We asked 55 of the world's top economists to tell us what to think.
Suzanne Merkelson -
On the Economy, Be Careful What You Wish For
A major shift in global economic power is approaching. Can the U.S. cope?
Ian Bremmer
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The Things They Carried: The Tahrir Square Irregular
Hazem Marghany, a 25-year-old architect, spent 18 days in Cairo's Tahrir Square during the revolution and has come back every Friday since. Here's what he packs in his black Adidas laptop bag.
Max Strasser -
The Revolution Will Be Tweeted
Life in the vanguard of the new Twitter proletariat.
Blake Hounshell -
A Guide to the Foreign-Policy Twitterati
Missing out on the Twitter Revolution? Here's a cheat sheet to get you started.
Blake Hounshell -
An Unfair Deal
Fair trade is overrated.
Joshua E. Keating -
Divide and Conquer
For Barack Obama, maybe getting nothing passed in Congress isn't so bad after all.
Joshua E. Keating -
Chug for Growth
Drink and be merry -- it's all for the common good.
Charles Kenny -
Track II Diplomacy: A Short History
How the left-field idea of diplomacy without diplomats became an essential tool of statecraft.
Charles Homans -
Fortress India
Why is Delhi building a new Berlin Wall to keep out its Bangladeshi neighbors?
Scott Carney -
Get Smart: How to Cram for 2012
The foreign-policy books you should be reading to get ready for election season.
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Epiphanies from Henry Kissinger
America's most famous diplomat reflects on a very revolutionary 2011, the rise of China, and the prospects for a new Cold War.
Blake Hounshell
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How'd We Do Covering the Revolution?
Looking back with a generous dose of humility.
David E. Hoffman -
The Far Side of the Soviet Moon
Ten of Russia's most disturbing unsolved mysteries.
David E. Hoffman -
Don't Go There
Chasing the dying memories of Soviet trauma.
Orlando Figes -
The Blank Spots
Why so many remain.
Maria Lipman
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Food Fight
The new geopolitics of agriculture aren't new.
Passport Administrator -
The End of Hunger
Cut the development NGOs some slack.
Passport Administrator -
Is Israel Really America's Ally?
Maybe it's time for them to see other people.
Passport Administrator -
Marketing a 'Miracle'
Has Medellín's resurgence been oversold?
Passport Administrator -
Talking the Talk
South Africans aren't the only ones keeping quiet about AIDS.
Passport Administrator
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Think Again: Failed States
On 9/11, the West woke up to the threat posed by failed states. But did we actually understand it?
James Traub
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The New Geopolitics of Food
From the Middle East to Madagascar, high prices are spawning land grabs and ousting dictators. Welcome to the 21st-century food wars.
Lester R. Brown -
More Than 1 Billion People Are Hungry in the World
But what if the experts are wrong?
Abhijit Banerjee -
How Food Explains the World
From China's strategic pork reserve to a future where insects are the new white meat, 10 reasons we really are what we eat.
Joshua Keating -
Eat, Drink, Protest
Buying peace, one feast at a time.
Annia Ciezadlo -
The Baguettes of War
Inside the Middle East's defiant kitchens.
Anna Badkhen -
Inside the Geopolitics of a Hungry Planet
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Half a Miracle
Medellín's rebirth is nothing short of astonishing. But have the drug lords really been vanquished?
Francis Fukuyama -
Iron Ladies
Why women leaders aren't the peaceniks you think.
Joshua E. Keating -
Silver Lining
When winning isn't everything.
Joshua E. Keating -
Why Recessions Are Good for Freedom
Democracy is best served with a side of economic stagnation.
Charles Kenny -
Epiphanies from Gene Sharp
The intellectual father of the democratic revolution on what he learned from Gandhi and why he doesn't give advice.
Benjamin Pauker
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An Eerie Silence
Why is it so hard for South Africa to talk about AIDS?
Jonny Steinberg
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Losing Obama
Hamid Karzai's biggest problem isn't his relationship with the United States, but with his own country.
Kelsey Suemnicht -
Is Our Kids Getting Dumber?
Actually, the U.S. really should care about its schoolchildren's international competitiveness.
Kelsey Suemnicht -
The Right War
Gen. Stanley McChrystal needs to acknowledge that the battle for Afghanistan belongs to the Afghans.
Kelsey Suemnicht -
A Tale of Two Viruses
The dangerous business of comparing cyber and bio attacks to each other.
Kelsey Suemnicht
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Think Again: Dictators
Arab autocrats may be tottering, but the world's tyrants aren't all quaking in their steel-toed boots.
Graeme Robertson
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How Obama Lost Karzai
The road out of Afghanistan runs through two presidents who just don't get along.
Ahmed Rashid -
It Takes a Network
The new front line of modern warfare.
Stanley A. McChrystal -
The Future of War
What wars are we going to be fighting in the next decade -- and with what weapons?
Elizabeth Dickinson -
War and Peace, Mad Libs Edition
FP asked some of the world's smartest thinkers on security to fill in the blanks on where we're headed.
Passport Administrator -
The New Virology
From Stuxnet to biobombs, the future of war by other means.
David E. Hoffman -
Teodorin's World
Playboy bunnies. $2 million Bugattis. Bags full of cash. Meet the world's richest minister of agriculture and forestry.
Ken Silverstein -
Human Rights Last
China's diplomats have the ear of the world's bad guys. So what are they telling them?
Gary J. Bass
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So Long, Chicken Little
The 9 most annoying sky-is-falling clichés in American foreign policy.
Michael Lind -
Qué pasa, China?
Why China's boom might take a siesta.
Joshua E. Keating -
The Not So Dark Ages
When it comes to comparing economies, 'medieval' may not mean what you think it means.
Joshua E. Keating -
The Lesser Evil?
The relativism of corruption.
Joshua E. Keating -
Mickey Mouse, Villain
How copyrights for U.S. cartoons are holding the developing world hostage.
Charles Kenny -
BRICs: A Short History
How did a Wall Street buzzword coined by Goldman Sachs become a powerful new bloc in world affairs?
Blake Hounshell -
Epiphanies from Jim O'Neill
The chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management talks BRICs.
Blake Hounshell
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Cable News
What is WikiLeaks really trying to tell us? We asked eminent historians and scholars to take the long view on these startling documents.
Britt Peterson -
A Short History of Secrecy
Think Julian Assange is sui generis? He's just one in a long line of agents provocateurs, stretching back through Trotsky to the Greeks.
Margaret MacMillan -
Anatomy of a Honey Trap
What if the hidden messages in the WikiLeaks cables were less about Tunisia and Russia, more about Winnie the Pooh?
Marjorie Garber -
Revenge of the Quiet American
The world of U.S. diplomacy as filtered through WikiLeaks looks an awful lot like a certain other Western imperial power from not too long ago.
Maya Jasanoff -
How to Write a Cable
A veteran diplomat explains how it's really done.
Peter W. Galbraith -
Nothing to See Here
What if the big message of the WikiLeaks cables is that there is no message?
Fouad Ajami
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Chinese Juggernaut?
China's rapid growth is a legitimate worry for leaders in Washington -- and Beijing.
Passport Administrator -
Netizens Unite
An advocate for Washington's "Internet Freedom" agenda has second thoughts.
Passport Administrator -
Kingdom Come
The United States may need Saudi Arabia -- but do they need us?
Passport Administrator -
The China Threat
Can the United States really make a peaceful hand-off of power to authoritarian China?
Passport Administrator -
History Matters
Is the peace process doomed until Mahmoud Abbas hangs a portrait of Theodor Herzl in his office?
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Relax, America. Chinese math whizzes and Indian engineers aren't stealing your kids' future.
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Where Do Bad Ideas Come From?
And why don't they go away?
Stephen M. Walt -
Running the World, After the Crash
Has the era of global cooperation ended before it began?
Richard Samans -
The Imaginot Line
Why we're still fighting yesterday's economic war.
Paul Seabright -
The FP Survey: Terrorism
What is the state of global terrorism today, nearly a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks? Foreign Policy asked the top terrorism experts in the field. Here's what they told us:
Andrew Swift
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Frenemies Forever
How Washington stopped worrying and learned to love Saudi Arabia, again.
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Epiphanies from Tariq Ramadan
The Swiss-born grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood's founder made his career trying to prove that the West and Islam, secularism and belief, can coexist peacefully. With his George W. Bush-era travel ban revoked, Tariq Ramadan has now journeyed back to the United States, where his faith in faith has been put to the test by a painful year for American Muslims.
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Freedom.gov
Why Washington's support for online democracy is the worst thing ever to happen to the Internet.
Evgeny Morozov -
New Kids on the Block
Meet the foreign-policy powers for the new GOP congress.
Josh Rogin -
The Depression? J'accuse!
Is France to blame for the Great Depression?
Joshua E. Keating -
The AK-47 of the Cell-Phone World
Forget iPhones and Droids: The Nokia 1100 is the most important cell phone on the planet.
Joshua E. Keating -
Weird Science
Most of what we know about how the world thinks comes from research on a handful of American undergrads.
Joshua E. Keating -
GDP: a brief history
One stat to rule them all.
Elizabeth Dickinson -
5 Myths About the Chinese Communist Party
Market-Leninism lives.
Richard McGregor -
What Hu Jintao Wants to Know
How the Chinese president views the world.
Thomas Fingar -
Welcome to Minegolia
How the land of Genghis Khan became a new Gold Rush San Francisco on the steppe.
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Three Decades of a Joke That Just Won't Die
Egyptian humor goes where its politics cannot.
Issandr El Amrani -
Meet the Persident
In surreal Russia, fake presidential tweets are much more relevant than the real ones.
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Electric Company
Gen. Wesley Clark and Roger Kemp argue that a new superbattery isn't enough to make the electric car viable.
Andrew Swift -
Old Money
Global aging isn't the problem, says Jack Goldstone -- it's lack of opportunity.
Andrew Swift -
The Iran X-Files
George Kennan wanted to invade Iran, not contain it, Martin Kramer argues.
Andrew Swift -
Not on the List
Steve Clemons suggests some thinkers who deserved an honorable mention in 2010.
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What Saved Japan?
Dick Beason takes issue with Clyde Prestowitz's argument that government action, not free markets, beat the Japanese juggernaut.
Andrew Swift
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Think Again: American Decline
This time it's for real.
Gideon Rachman
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December 2010
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Hitch Looks Back
Christopher Hitchens, the verbal pugilist and famed raconteur, recently debated his brother Peter on the subject of religion, his own diagnosis of lung cancer, and the value -- or not -- of prayer at life's end. We bring you the edited excerpts of Hitch's remarks.
Andrew Swift -
The Plundered Planet
From Global Thinker No. 29 Paul Collier, an examination of the divide between environment and economy, and a plea for reconciliation.
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How's That New World Order Working Out?
The multipolar moment has arrived -- and it's nothing like Americans imagined.
Parag Khanna -
We Can't Say They Didn't Warn Us
A guide to who's still standing in the post-crash marketplace of ideas.
Chrystia Freeland -
The Four Horsemen of the Teapocalypse
Meet the dead thinkers who defined 2010.
Brad DeLong -
The Fourth Wave
Can the world avoid a fresh crisis?
Ian Bremmer -
Why I'm Building Palestine
Soon, the only obstacle in our way will be the occupation itself.
Salam Fayyad -
Global Heroes
How the Cold War's wise men went anti-nuclear.
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5 Lessons From Haiti's Disaster
What the earthquake taught us about foreign aid.
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The End of the 'Peaceful Rise'?
Even China's elites don't know where it's headed.
Elizabeth Economy -
The African Miracle
How the world's charity case became its best investment opportunity.
Norbert Dörr
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November 2010
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A Plan B for Obama
A stagnant economy. Declining American influence. Dictators on the march abroad. And a more Republican Congress coming soon. Barack Obama is in big trouble. But it's never too late. Foreign Policy has a plan, 14 in fact, for how the president can find his mojo again.
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Avoid the Double Dip
How Obama can save the fragile economy from going back into a tailspin.
Nouriel Roubini -
The Tyranny of Metaphor
Three historical myths have been leading American presidents into folly for nearly a century. Is Obama wise enough to avoid the same fate?
Robert Dallek -
The Sources of
SovietIranian ConductHow George Kennan is still the best guide to today's villain inside a victim behind a veil.
Karim Sadjadpour -
Watching the Watchers
Al Qaeda's bold new strategy is all about using our own words and actions against us. And it's working.
Jarret Brachman -
Inside Talibanistan
From the Haqqani network to the Afghan Taliban, a look at a splintered enemy.
Peter Bergen -
The Great Battery Race
A 19th-century technology could determine which nation triumphs in the 21st. Steve LeVine reports from the global competition to replace the combustion engine.
Steve LeVine
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Opening Gambit: Moore's Flaw
Why the tech industry's unbridled optimism won't save the world.
Charles Homans -
What Shape Is Your Recession?
The alphabet soup of economic misery.
Joshua E. Keating -
Lie of the Tiger
How the United States really tamed the Japanese economy -- and why China's a much meaner cat.
Clyde V. Prestowitz -
Epiphanies from Paul Volcker
The legendary central banker speaks with FP about family values, what went wrong with big finance, and why baseball is to blame.
Benjamin Pauker -
Fat Race
Last year's jeans won't fit? Blame the free market.
Joshua E. Keating -
Insecurity Council
Is the U.N.'s seat of power a curse?
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Womenomics
A brief history of women in the workplace.
Elizabeth Dickinson -
Reinventing the Wheel
Why no-tech ancient civilizations still can't catch up.
William Easterly
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The Russian Masterpiece You've Never Heard of
Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate has more to say about human freedom than any other Russian novel of the century. That's probably why it was locked up for so long.
Leon Aron
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What Makes a Global City Global?
Saskia Sassen argues that emerging Asian cities have a long way to go before they're truly global.
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Hall of Famers
Lawrence Korb takes issue with Fred Kaplan's representation of Defense Secretary Robert Gates's record.
Andrew Swift -
True North
Rob Huebert counters Lawson W. Brigham's assertion of a peaceful Arctic.
Andrew Swift -
Back to the 'Burbs
Edward Glaeser and Jim Woods examine Joel Kotkin's pro-suburb argument.
Andrew Swift
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Think Again: Global Aging
A gray tsunami is sweeping the planet -- and not just in the places you expect. How did the world get so old, so fast?
Phillip Longman
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September/October 2010
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Fire in the Hole
How India's economic rise turned an obscure communist revolt into a raging resource war.
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Urban Legends
Why suburbs, not cities, are the answer.
Joel Kotkin -
Don't Try This at Home
You can't build a new Silicon Valley just anywhere.
Margaret O'Mara -
Beyond City Limits
The age of nations is over. The new urban age has begun.
Parag Khanna
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The YIMBYS
Five places saying "yes, in my backyard" to the nasty stuff that no one else wants.
Sylvie Stein -
Strange Brew
Does the Tea Party have a foreign policy?
Peter Baker -
Awesome Aughties
The decade through rose-colored glasses.
Suzanne Merkelson -
Best. Decade. Ever.
The first 10 years of the 21st century were humanity's finest -- even for the world's bottom billion.
Charles Kenny -
Soft Rock Power
Has American cultural dominance met its Waterloo?
Joshua E. Keating -
The Truth Is Out There (In a Library)
Forget WikiLeaks or Google. The state secrets that matter are waiting to be found in dusty file cabinets.
David E. Hoffman -
Blood or Treasure?
For a president, the real cost of war is dollars, not deaths.
Joshua E. Keating -
Epiphanies from George Papandreou
The scion of a socialist political dynasty, son of one prime minister and grandson of another, George Papandreou has also inherited the unwelcome task of bringing Greece's sinking economy back from the depths of the Aegean. Here, he explains how Greeks are more stoic than you think, that Europe isn't the problem -- and why markets are not gods.
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Strategic Dialogue
It's a long journey from U.S. enemy to ally, but for the last half-century, there has been one sure-fire sign that things are moving in the right direction: holding a "strategic dialogue" in Washington. Think of it as the foreign-policy equivalent of a meeting of mafia dons: There's no love lost, but there's mutual advantage to be won from breaking bread together. These days, though, everyone wants a strategic dialogue -- from close friends to wary adversaries -- and increasingly, they're looking to Beijing.
Elizabeth Dickinson
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The World's Iacoccas
The celebrity business bio is no longer a U.S. phenomenon.
Clare Sestanovich -
Bed, Bath & Bribes
IKEA's struggle to do business in Putin's Russia.
Alexander Osipovich -
The Global Dream
With the global rise of the celebrity CEO, some new stories are being told.
Michael Skapinker -
Slumdog Billionaires
Two autobiographies show how India's new Rockefellers made it big.
Sadanand Dhume
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Who's Misreading Tehran?
Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett take issue with FP's "Misreading Tehran" package.
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America's Triumph Over the Zombie Horde
According to Daniel Nixon, the zombie wars will make the United States more powerful than ever.
Andrew Swift -
Reagan Was Right
Richard Perle challenges Peter Beinart's representation of Reagan's foreign policy.
Andrew Swift -
Not Your Father's Francafrique
Yves Gounin defends France's Africa policy.
Andrew Swift
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Think Again: The Arctic
Everyone wants a piece of the thawing far north. But that doesn't mean anarchy will reign at the top of the world.
Lawson W. Brigham
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