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The World in Photos This Week
Sarkozy comes in second in France, tension rises in South Sudan, and Australia remembers its fallen soldiers.
APRIL 26, 2012
The Competitiveness Crisis
The real root of the euro crisis is the gap between Europe's core and periphery -- and it's getting wider.
BY URI DADUSH | APRIL 25, 2012
The Strategic Vacuum
The global economy is in trouble -- if political and business leaders don't stop substituting short-term tactical responses for real, substantive reform.
BY MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN | APRIL 25, 2012
Après Moi, le Déluge
Five reasons that Europe will rue the loss of Nicolas Sarkozy.
BY JAMES POULOS | APRIL 24, 2012
Only Germany Can Save Europe
The euro crisis is back with a vengeance -- and only Berlin can pull the continent from its economic doldrums.
BY HELEEN MEES | APRIL 24, 2012
What Sex Means for World Peace
The evidence is clear: The best predictor of a state's stability is how its women are treated.
BY VALERIE M. HUDSON | APRIL 24, 2012
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.
BY FP STAFF | MAY/JUNE 2012
The FP Survey: Women in Politics
In a special edition of The FP Survey, top female politicians around the world -- presidents and vice presidents, cabinet secretaries and members of Congress -- told us about the worst cases of sexism in politics and the best ways to bring more women to the negotiating table.
PRODUCED BY MARGARET SLATTERY | MAY/JUNE 2012
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.
MAY/JUNE 2012
The Enemy Within
Since the end of the Cold War, America has been on a relentless search for enemies. But the real dangers are at home.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MAY/JUNE 2012
The World According to Glencore
"The biggest company you never heard of," as Reuters once put it, Glencore does business in dozens of countries on every continent except Antarctica. Here's a snapshot of this global empire -- and some of its murky local alliances.
BY KEN SILVERSTEIN | MAY/JUNE 2012
Smart Sanctions: A Short History
How a blunt diplomatic tool morphed into the precision-guided measures we know today.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | MAY/JUNE 2012
Work Hard, Pray Hard
Do Muslim Americans embody the Protestant work ethic better than their Protestant counterparts?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MAY/JUNE 2012
A Better Dictator
If you have to live under an authoritarian regime, which kind is best?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MAY/JUNE 2012
Balance of Power
In the face-off between companies and countries, don't underestimate the growing power of the state.
MAY/JUNE 2012
The World in Photos This Week
Norway's mass killer goes on trial, the space shuttle Discovery lands in Washington, and North Korea celebrates the 100th birthday of Kim Il Sung.
APRIL 20, 2012
He's Not Alone
The trial of Norway's alleged mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is only the tip of the iceberg in a rising sea of radical Islamophobia in Europe.
BY PAUL HOCKENOS | APRIL 19, 2012
Artful Dodgers
The 6 countries where everyone runs the other way when the tax man comes knocking.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | APRIL 13, 2012
The World in Photos This Week
North Korea launches a dud, a fragile cease-fire holds in Syria, and Rick Santorum bows out.
APRIL 13, 2012
The G-20 Is Failing
World leaders said they'd reform the world's financial institutions in the wake of the Great Recession, but they haven't met their commitments. We all may pay the price.
BY EDWIN M. TRUMAN | APRIL 12, 2012
Sarko's Romney Problem
As the French election heats up, everyone's playing class warfare.
BY ERIC PAPE | APRIL 6, 2012
Treacherous Waters
The latest bad publicity for the global cruise industry is just the tip of the iceberg.
BY ROSS A. KLEIN | APRIL 6, 2012
Great Scots
From the battlefield at Bannockburn to Dolly the sheep, the country's soaring national pride speaks volumes about the potential of a complicated dissolution from the United Kingdom.
BY TIM JUDAH | APRIL 5, 2012
The Stay at Home Scots
When you’ve got whisky, why do you need an army?
BY TIM JUDAH | APRIL 4, 2012
Decoupling: Ties That No Longer Bind
Emerging market economies have protected themselves from global economic downturns.
BY PETER PASSELL | APRIL 4, 2012
(B)rogue Nation
Could Scotland really choose to leave the United Kingdom?
BY TIM JUDAH | APRIL 3, 2012
Scot Free
A guided tour of Scotland, as the country debates its looming vote on independence.
BY TIM JUDAH | APRIL 3, 2012
The World in Photos This Week
The Pope dons a sombrero, French police hunt suspected Islamists, and a Tongan king is laid to rest.
MARCH 30, 2012
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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