South Asia
India's Ocean
Could New Delhi's growing naval force change the balance of power in the Pacific?
BY DHRUVA JAISHANKAR | DECEMBER 6, 2012
The Migrant Money Machine
The developed world could make a big difference to the global economy simply by helping migrants to do what comes naturally: send money home.
BY PETER PASSELL | DECEMBER 4, 2012
Extrication Negotiations
The United States is ready to start talking to the Taliban about a peace deal again. But nothing's going to happen without Pakistan.
BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 30, 2012
Can You Save Diplomacy From Itself?
Carne Ross's quixotic crusade to help emerging nations get their seat at the table.
BY CRISTINA ODONE | NOVEMBER 26, 2012
The FP Survey: The Wisdom of the Smart Crowd
FP's Global Thinkers weigh in on the year gone by and what's on the horizon for 2013.
DECEMBER 2012
No Chickens or Cricket Bats
The strange list of Indian products you can't import in Pakistan.
DECEMBER 2012
The Cult of Massoud
How Afghanistan’s Che Guevara still haunts Hamid Karzai.
BY JAMES VERINI | NOVEMBER 23, 2012
The Corruption Pandemic
Why corruption is set to become one of the defining political issues of the 21st century.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | NOVEMBER 8, 2012
No Game Change
The bipartisan consensus in Washington about expanding ties with India may be good for New Delhi, but it's turned the election into a snoozer.
BY SADANAND DHUME | NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Pakistani Power Play
If the United States wants to curb terrorism and nuclear proliferation, it needs to fundamentally rethink its relationship with Pakistan.
BY C. CHRISTINE FAIR | NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Prosperity Isn't Just a Matter of Wealth
Man does not live by GDP alone. An introduction to the Legatum Institute's latest Prosperity Index.
BY PETER PASSELL | NOVEMBER 2, 2012
One Storm Away
10 major world cities that could end up underwater.
BY ALICIA P.Q. WITTMEYER | OCTOBER 31, 2012
Afghanistan's Gray Future
It's Hamid Karzai's country now, and not everything is black and white.
BY HASEEB HUMAYOON | OCTOBER 18, 2012
We Are All Malala
Why can't Pakistanis condemn the Taliban for shooting a 14-year-old girl?
BY NADEEM F. PARACHA | OCTOBER 10, 2012
Talking Our Way Out Of Afghanistan
NATO needs to negotiate with the Taliban NOW, before all the troops -- and our leverage -- are gone.
BY MATT WALDMAN | OCTOBER 9, 2012
The Sanctions Conundrum
Some say the sanctions against Tehran are working. But wasn't the Iranian economy already a basket case?
BY PETER PASSELL | OCTOBER 9, 2012
Think Again: The BRICS
Together, their GDP now nearly equals the United States. But are they really the future of the global economy?
BY ANTOINE VAN AGTMAEL | NOVEMBER 2012
Justice Delayed
Why is it so hard to figure out who killed Christopher Stevens?
BY MARTHA CRENSHAW | OCTOBER 4, 2012
Northern Alliance
Canada's defense minister talks about security in the Americas -- and Afghanistan.
INTERVIEW BY KEVIN BARON | OCTOBER 2, 2012
Trust Fall
What's behind the inside attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan? The 2014 timeline for withdrawal.
BY FELISA DYRUD, DAVOOD MORADIAN | OCTOBER 2, 2012
Tribal Warfare
Why did the Pentagon award a $7 million Afghanistan security contract to this group of Native Americans in Oklahoma?
BY JOHN REED | SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
The Great Pharmaceuticals Scam
India has a problem with substandard drugs -- and American regulators are allowing them to be imported into the United States.
BY ROGER BATE | SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
What Happens When the Lights Go Out in Karachi?
Three scary questions that keep Pakistanis up at night.
BY SHAMILA N. CHAUDHARY | SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
So Much for the Good War
It's time to admit that Obama's Afghanistan strategy is a total failure.
BY ARIF RAFIQ | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Nobody Told Asia About The End of Men
Mara Hvistendahl takes on Hanna Rosin.
BY MARA HVISTENDAHL | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Inside Saudi Arabia's new crackdown on dissent
5 great reads for your weekend
BY RACHEL WILKINSON
EU protects citizens from dangers of unregulated olive oil bottles
BY ALICIA P.Q. WITTMEYER
British Foreign Office to drunk Britons everywhere: No, we can't translate that tattoo for you
BY ELIAS GROLL
Why do some groups choose nonviolence?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
The Army is looking for a few good drone backhoes
BY JOHN REED
Meet the movement standing up to Libya's extremists
BY MOHAMED ELJARH
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