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Photo Essay: Burma Picks Up the Pieces

A tattered nation tries to recover

Seven Questions: Mohamed El-Erian on the New Global Economy

Mohamed El-Erian is one of the world’s most respected financial and economic analysts. Now, he shares his insights on the realignment of the global economy and why we aren’t prepared to handle it without significant risks of both market accidents and policy mistakes.

Africa Plays the Rice Card

For years, Western experts promised Africans that free-market ideology would save them from poverty and famine. Now, one African country is showing that sometimes, a little protectionism can work wonders.
By G. Pascal Zachary

The Top 100 Public Intellectuals

They are some of the world’s most introspective philosophers and rabble-rousing clerics. A few write searing works of fiction and uncover the mysteries of the human mind. Others are at the forefront of modern finance, politics, and human rights. In the second Foreign Policy/Prospect list of top public intellectuals, we reveal the thinkers who are shaping the tenor of our time.

Israel at 60
Think Again: Israel

Six decades after its founding, the Jewish state is neither as vulnerable as its supporters claim nor as callous and calculating as its critics imagine. But if it is to continue defying all expectations, Israel must first confront its own mythology. By Gershom Gorenberg

China
When China Met Africa

It seemed a perfect match: A growing country looking for markets and influence meets a continent with plenty of resources but few investors. Now that China has moved in, though, its African partners are beginning to resent their aggressive new patron. What happens when the world’s most ambitious developing power meets the poverty, corruption, and fragility of Africa? China is just beginning to find out. By Serge Michel

Think Again: The Peace Corps

In the eyes of Americans, no government agency better exemplifies the optimism, can-do spirit, and selfless nature of the United States than the Peace Corps. Unfortunately, it’s never lived up to its purpose or principles. UPDATE: Former Peace Corps volunteers respond. By Robert L. Strauss

The List: The Next Countries to Kick the Habit

Tobacco could kill as many as 1 billion people in the 21st century, health experts warn. But antitobacco activism may be winning the day. At least 84 countries now have policies in place to curb smoking, and many are enacting full public bans. For the world’s nicotine lovers, it’s time to smoke ’em while you’ve got ’em.

The Failed States Index
The world’s weakest states aren’t just a danger to themselves. They can threaten the progress and stability of countries half a world away. In the third annual Failed States Index, Foreign Policy and The Fund for Peace rank the countries where the risk of failure is running high. By The Fund for Peace and FOREIGN POLICY magazine

The U.S. Military Index
In an exclusive new index, Foreign Policy and the Center for a New American Security surveyed more than 3,400 active and retired officers at the highest levels of command about the state of the U.S. military. They see a force stretched dangerously thin and a country ill-prepared for the next fight.

The Coming Euroinvasion
First they came for the iPods. Then the Europeans snatched up condos in Manhattan. Now they’re coming for the companies. By Moisés Naím


	China's Economic Fluctuations
	President Bush in the Middle East
	Financing Energy Efficiency in China
	What America Must Do
	Politics More Dangerous than Nukes
	The Myth of the Authoritarian Model: How Putin's Crackdown Holds Russia Back
	U.S.-Iran Confrontation in Strait of Hormuz
	Europe and the U.S.: Confronting Global Challenges