Inside the Climate Bunker

How global-warming deniers are running circles around the U.N.'s top climate body.

BY CHRISTINA LARSON | FEBRUARY 9, 2010

How global-warming deniers are running circles around the U.N.'s top climate body.

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Christina Larson is a contributing editor at Foreign Policy and a fellow at the New America Foundation.

Nanjing by the Numbers

A new report on the 1937-1938 massacre doesn't settle the contested issue of how many people died -- but it points to a much more significant new consensus between Japan and China.

BY KATE MERKEL-HESS, JEFFREY N. WASSERSTROM | FEBRUARY 9, 2010

A new report on the 1937-1938 massacre doesn't settle the contested issue of how many people died -- but it points to a much more significant new consensus between Japan and China.

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Kate Merkel-Hess is an ACLS/Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the University of California - Irvine, the editor of "The China Beat" blog/electronic magazine, and a co-editor of China in 2008: A Year of Great Significance.

Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is a professor of history at University of California - Irvine and the author of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, which will be published in April.

Dagestan: Russia's Most Overlooked Hot Spot

Why the coming weeks will only get more dangerous for the troubled North Caucasus Republic.

BY GREGORY ZALASKY | FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Why the coming weeks will only get more dangerous for the troubled North Caucasus Republic.

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Gregory Zalasky is a senior analyst on the Emerging Threats Project at Georgetown University's Imaging Science and Information Systems Center, which is funded by the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Center.

How Washington Can Really Help the Greens in Tehran

For the Obama administration, there are dangers in doing too much and too little to help the pro-democracy movement in Iran. Here is how to chart a safe, effective third way.

BY ALIREZA NADER, TRITA PARSI | FEBRUARY 9, 2010

For the Obama administration, there are dangers in doing too much and too little to help the pro-democracy movement in Iran. Here is how to chart a safe, effective third way.

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Alireza Nader is an international affairs analyst at the RAND Corporation and co-author of Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads: An Exploration of Iranian Leadership Dynamics. Trita Parsi is president of the National Iranian American Council and the 2010 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.

This Is What Victory Looks Like

How Aaron David Miller romanticizes the past and underestimates the future.

BY ABRAHAM M. DENMARK | FEBRUARY 9, 2010

How Aaron David Miller romanticizes the past and underestimates the future.

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Abraham M. Denmark is a fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He is co-author of Contested Commons: The Future of American Power in a Multipolar World.

Yanukovych Won. Get Over It.

Ukraine has cast its vote for the guy who was on the wrong side of the barricades in the Orange Revolution five years ago. The end of civilization as we know it? Not likely.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Ukraine has cast its vote for the guy who was on the wrong side of the barricades in the Orange Revolution five years ago. The end of civilization as we know it? Not likely.

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Christian Caryl is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy. His column, “Reality Check,” appears weekly on ForeignPolicy.com.

Who Wants to Bomb Iran?

Meet the men calling on Barack Obama to launch airstrikes against the Islamic Republic.

BY DAVID KENNER | FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Meet the men calling on Barack Obama to launch airstrikes against the Islamic Republic.

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David Kenner is assistant editor at Foreign Policy.

Prepare for Liftoff

The future of space exploration will be driven by private markets, not government spending.

BY ESTHER DYSON | FEBRUARY 8, 2010

The future of space exploration will be driven by private markets, not government spending.

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Esther Dyson is chairman of EDventure Holdings and an investor in a variety of start-ups, ranging from Internet services such as Eventful.com and genetics service 23andMe  to XCOR Aerospace and Space Adventures.

January/February 2010