South Asia

The Cult of Mayawati

Love her or hate her, India's polarizing political superstar is a force to be reckoned with.

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The World in Photos this Week

Soccer riots in Egypt, Merkel heads to China, and an anniversary in Tehran.

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

The Diaspora's Conscience

Does the National Iranian American Council have a moral obligation to speak out against the ayatollahs?

BY PETER KOHANLOO, SOHRAB AHMARI | FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The Battle for Bihar

Sleaze still plagues India. But one place is fighting back.

BY SUDIP MAZUMDAR | JANUARY 25, 2012

All Silk Roads Lead to Tehran

Sanctions aren't the answer. If Washington is serious about building a new economic and security architecture across South and Central Asia, it can’t avoid working with Iran.

BY NEIL PADUKONE | JANUARY 23, 2012

Inside a Changing Myanmar

As the United States restores diplomatic relations, photos from a country in transition.

BY CORNELIU CAZACU | JANUARY 13, 2012

Pakistan's Slow-Motion Coup

Islamabad’s generals are out to destroy Pakistani democracy. Obama should try to stop them.

BY C. CHRISTINE FAIR | JANUARY 5, 2012

Pakistan the Unreal

A son's tale of a death ripped from the headlines -- and the novel that foretold it.

BY AATISH TASEER | JAN/FEB 2012

8 Geopolitically Endangered Species

Meet the weaker countries that will suffer from American decline.

BY ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI | JAN/FEB 2012

War Dogs, Boomtowns, and Dead Dictators

Foreign Policy’s most popular photo essays of 2011.

DECEMBER 28, 2011

The Bioterrorist Next Door

Man-made killer bird flu is here.  Can -- should -- governments try to stop it?

BY LAURIE GARRETT | DECEMBER 15, 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

Change Afghanistan Can Believe In

10 years later, life isn't just better -- it's much better.

BY CHARLES KENNY | DECEMBER 12, 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

The Sick Man of Pakistan

In Dubai for medical treatment with coup rumors swirling back home, Asif Ali Zardari's presidency appears to be on its last legs. So what else is new?

BY SHAMILA N. CHAUDHARY | DECEMBER 8, 2011

Afghanistan's Bloody Tuesday

The annual Shiite holiday, Ashura, is a self-flagellatory festival of blood. But the shocking bombing in Kabul is anything but holy. Warning: graphic images.

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Rise of the TIMBIs

Forget the BRICs. The real economies that will shake up the world over the next few decades need a new acronym.

BY JACK A. GOLDSTONE | DECEMBER 2, 2011

The General's Luck Runs Out

Does the killing of the notorious guerrilla leader Kishenji mean the end of India's four-decade Maoist insurgency, or the beginning of its next chapter?

BY JASON MIKLIAN | NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The Generals Have No Clothes

Islamabad's generals have been sponsoring the deaths of Americans for years, and yet Obama does nothing. Why?

BY KAPIL KOMIREDDI | NOVEMBER 29, 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

Holy Days

Muslims around the world celebrate the hajj and Eid al-Adha.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

A Friend in Need

Can disaster aid actually win hearts and minds?

BY CHARLES KENNY | OCTOBER 31, 2011

Club for Growth

The past decade might have been grim for the economically stagnant West, but without a booming developing world it would have been much worse.

BY CHARLES KENNY | OCTOBER 24, 2011

Looking East

Six decades of the United States in Asia, in photographs.

OCTOBER 11, 2011

America's Pacific Century

The future of politics will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action.

BY HILLARY CLINTON | NOVEMBER 2011

Epiphanies from Nandan Nilekani

"Seattle has Bill," Thomas Friedman once wrote. "Bangalore has Nandan." The co-founder of Infosys -- the Indian company that made "outsourcing" a household word -- famously gave Friedman the central conceit for The World Is Flat when he said that global commerce's "playing field is being leveled" by communications technology. Now tasked with providing digital IDs to 1.2 billion Indians, Nandan Nilekani is trying to finish the job he started in the private sector: bringing a country that never entirely left the 19th century all the way into the 21st.

INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | NOVEMBER 2011

Sea Change

The Cato Institute's Ted Galen Carpenter asks whether the United States can afford the naval confrontation with China envisioned by Robert Kaplan.

NOVEMBER 2011

Eastern Promises

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a long history with Asia and, like the country she represents, a long future.

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Unloved at Any Speed

Instead of conquering India's roads, the much-hyped Tata Nano -- the world's cheapest car -- is struggling to find buyers.

BY SADANAND DHUME | OCTOBER 7, 2011

What Lies Beneath

For years, people whispered about the thousands of disappeared young men in Kashmir. But only now are the bones finally speaking.

BY BASHARAT PEER | SEPTEMBER 29, 2011