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Rude Awakening
Promoting democracy in places like Egypt or Iraq is about changing the status quo. So why are we so surprised when it turns out that not everyone is in favor?
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | FEBRUARY 22, 2012
The Odd Couple
Iran and al Qaeda might seem like strange bedfellows. But their relationship goes back years.
BY DANIEL BYMAN | FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Separated at Birth
Indonesia's transition to democracy can tell us a lot about the likely course of Egypt's revolution. There's good news and there's bad news.
BY JOHN T. SIDEL | FEBRUARY 15, 2012
Votes Versus Rights
The debate that's shaping the outcome of the Arab Spring.
BY CHARLES KURZMAN | FEBRUARY 10, 2012
The Cynics at the Gates
The world is more prepared to stop atrocities than ever before, but it is still unwilling -- or unable -- to actually bring those atrocities to an end.
BY JAMES TRAUB | FEBRUARY 3, 2012
Cairo's Undercover Strongman
Meet Murad Muwafi, the most important man in Egypt you’ve never heard of.
BY MAGDY SAMAAN | FEBRUARY 3, 2012
The Lesson of Bani Walid
In post-Gaddafi Libya, the dream of a stable central government is fading. Militias are filling the gap.
BY CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN | JANUARY 28, 2012
Yemen's State Within a Failed State
A rare journey to the rugged province of Saada, the battle-torn region that has fallen out of the government's control during the past year.
PHOTOS BY TOM FINN | JANUARY 27, 2012
Guns and Butter
Countries around the world are finding that military involvement in private business is a major barrier to reform. But pensioning off CEOs in uniform is easier said than done.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 24, 2012
A Forward Strategy of Freedom
It's neither perfect nor pretty, but the Arab Spring proves that neoconservatives were right all along.
BY ELLIOTT ABRAMS | JANUARY 23, 2012
War Dogs, Boomtowns, and Dead Dictators
Foreign Policy’s most popular photo essays of 2011.
DECEMBER 28, 2011
The Frankenstein of Tahrir Square
Egypt is spinning out of control. But it's not only the fault of the ruling military junta -- the protesters in the street deserve plenty of blame, too.
BY STEVEN A. COOK | DECEMBER 19, 2011
To the Barricades
From Tahrir Square to Wall Street to the Kremlin, 2011 was a year when politics was conducted in the street.
DECEMBER 14, 2011
Next Year, in Review
From the fall of Ahmadinejad, Assad, Castro, and Chavez to the rise of cyberattacks -- the top 13 stories that could dominate the headlines in 2012.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | DECEMBER 12, 2011
Iran Has America's Super Spy Drone. So What?
Getting caught every once in a while is all part of the intelligence game.
BY MICAH ZENKO | DECEMBER 9, 2011
What Egypt's Military Doesn't Want Its Citizens to Know
Political censorship is back in the new Egypt. But hiding the truth is a losing strategy.
BY ROBERT SPRINGBORG | DECEMBER 9, 2011
Saleh Wins Again
Yemen’s wily leader has once again outwitted the world -- and he’s not going away.
BY CHARLES SCHMITZ | DECEMBER 5, 2011
America's Second Chance and the Arab Spring
The United States has been screwing up the Middle East for 60 years. Obama has a brief window to get it right.
BY KENNETH M. POLLACK | DECEMBER 5, 2011
Ready for Their Close-Up
The votes are in, and Islamist parties are ascendant throughout the Arab world. But can they rule?
BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 2, 2011
Get Ready for Big Brotherhood
Long shunted to the margins of political life, the Arab world's oldest Islamist group is about to win big. But not everyone's happy about it.
BY PIOTR ZALEWSKI | NOVEMBER 30, 2011
A Voter's Lament
Egypt's ruling generals may claim the ballot has been a success, but the revolutionaries of Tahrir Square know different.
BY MOHAMED EL DAHSHAN | NOVEMBER 29, 2011
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?
BY DAVID KIRKPATRICK | NOVEMBER 28, 2011
Head of the Class?
From Harvard to Pacific Western, a look at the sometimes surprising U.S. universities that have educated today’s new crop of world leaders.
BY URI FRIEDMAN, KEDAR PAVGI | NOVEMBER 18, 2011
Do Egypt's Liberals Stand a Chance?
Two weeks before Egypt's first post-revolution elections, the Muslim Brotherhood and the remnants of the former ruling party look poised for a massive victory.
BY EVAN HILL | NOVEMBER 16, 2011
The Pharoah's Lawyer
The deposed Egyptian dictator's lawyer explains in an exclusive interview how he plans to defend a man once seen as above the law.
BY MOHAMED FADEL FAHMY | NOVEMBER 2, 2011
Do Graves of Dictators Really Become Shrines?
A tour of contentious burials from Qaddafi to Hitler.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | OCTOBER 26, 2011
Outside the Law
From flawed beginning to bloody end, the NATO intervention in Libya made a mockery of international law.
BY ERIC A. POSNER | OCTOBER 25, 2011
Young Qaddafi and King Idris
Exclusive: Rare photographs of the young colonel and the ruler he overthrew.
OCTOBER 22, 2011
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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