South America
Dancing on the Sand
Why did the environmental movement send 40,000 people to a failed summit in Rio?
BY BRUCE JONES | JUNE 20, 2012
The Exclusion Zone
G-20 leaders are out of ideas and out of touch. No wonder their citizens are so angry.
BY MICHAEL J. CASEY | JUNE 19, 2012
10 Reasons Countries Fall Apart
States don't fail overnight. The seeds of of their destruction are sown deep within their political institutions.
BY DARON ACEMOGLU, JAMES A. ROBINSON | JULY/AUGUST 2012
Political Fat Cats, Global Edition
The United States doesn't have a monopoly on money in politics.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JULY/AUGUST 2012
The Dictators Are Smarter Than You Think
Don't count the tyrants out. They've still got plenty of tricks up their sleeves.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MAY 30, 2012
Down, but Not Out
Just because Brazil’s growth rates are slowing, doesn’t mean the doomsayers are right.
BY ALBERT FISHLOW | MAY 18, 2012
Burma Can Bring It
It’s true: Burma faces an uphill climb in its transition to democracy. But the odds may be better than you think.
BY MICHAEL ALBERTUS, VICTOR MENALDO | MAY 14, 2012
The Ravenous Dragon and the Fruits of Adversity
Academic economists usually air their new ideas first in working papers. Here, before the work gets dusty, a quick look at transition policy research in progress.
BY PETER PASSELL | MAY 7, 2012
Doing Right by the World's Women
A conversation with the first female head of the U.N. Development Program on the most pressing issues for women in the developing world.
BY MARGARET SLATTERY | APRIL 23, 2012
Campaign Literature
Barack Obama is much stronger on foreign policy than Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie suggest.
APRIL 23, 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 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
The Stubborn Past
Thirty-five years after the "Dirty War," a trial in Argentina is still struggling to shed light on a bloody legacy.
BY ALEX GIBSON | APRIL 20, 2012
Dirty Laundry
If the West really wants to prevent developing countries from laundering money, it can start by cleaning up its own act.
BY PETER REUTER | APRIL 19, 2012
How to Seize an Oil Company
Argentina's fiery president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, summarily took control of the country's biggest oil company. Here's a five-step guide for would-be dictators and leftists.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | APRIL 17, 2012
The Narco State
There's good news on the drug war: The world knows how to end it -- so why can't the United States figure it out?
BY CHARLES KENNY | APRIL 16, 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 Land of Too Many Summits
Considering how often they meet, Latin American leaders get surprisingly little done.
BY CHRISTOPHER SABATINI | APRIL 12, 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
After Chávez, the Narcostate
There are powerful men in Venezuela who are far worse than Hugo Chávez. And if Obama keeps "leading from behind" in Latin America, that's who we very well might get.
BY ROGER F. NORIEGA | APRIL 11, 2012
Decoupling: Ties That No Longer Bind
Emerging market economies have protected themselves from global economic downturns.
BY PETER PASSELL | APRIL 4, 2012
Sharing the Burden
Why Africa doesn't need your white guilt anymore.
BY CHARLES KENNY | APRIL 2, 2012
Biden to Latin America: Drop Dead
The laws of economics show why the United States has little chance of victory in the war on drugs.
BY PETER PASSELL | MARCH 22, 2012
The World in Photos This Week
Obama takes a basketball break with buddy David Cameron, Japan marks the earthquake anniversary, and a couple of bridges take a beating.
MARCH 16, 2012
Argentina's Dubious Boom
Argentina's economy has been coasting on its past successes. Don't be fooled.
BY ROBERT LOONEY | MARCH 14, 2012
Onward and Upward
Why economics -- the dismal science -- is far too pessimistic when it comes to analyzing the amazing gains in poverty eradication.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH 5, 2012
Mind the Gap
Inequality is an increasing problem around the world. But there are cures.
BY PETER PASSELL | MARCH 1, 2012
Brazil's New Swagger
South America's emerging superpower is coming into its own. But with great power comes great responsibility.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | FEBRUARY 28, 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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