South Asia
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
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
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
Two Plus Two Equals Five
What numbers can we trust? A second look at the death toll from some of the world's worst disasters.
BY PHILIP WALKER | AUGUST 17, 2011
The Taliban Are Here. Does It Matter?
After centuries of oppression, a village wakes up to its new masters.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | AUGUST 8, 2011
The Cultural Evolution
The baggage we carry from our ethnic and national backgrounds can keep people poor -- but it can also change, and faster than you'd think.
BY CHARLES KENNY | AUGUST 8, 2011
The Sweet Smell of Schadenfreude
The world is crowing over America's near-economic meltdown.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | AUGUST 2, 2011
Greening It Alone
The world is building a low-carbon global economy -- with or without the United States.
BY CHARLES KENNY | AUGUST 1, 2011
Less Is More
Cutting U.S. military aid to Pakistan might be just what the world's most frustrating alliance needs.
BY JAMES TRAUB | JULY 22, 2011
Sorry, Pakistan: China Is No Sugar Daddy
Just because Washington and Islamabad are at odds doesn't mean Beijing is looking to step in.
BY URMILA VENUGOPALAN | JULY 21, 2011
Afghanistan Is Now India's Problem
The United States may soon have the option of washing its hands of Afghanistan. But with an untrustworthy Pakistani military exerting greater influence, India does not.
BY SUMIT GANGULY | JULY 19, 2011
No, Pakistan Is Not Off the Hook
Even if the speculation about this week's Mumbai attacks is true, Islamabad still has some explaining to do.
BY SHASHANK JOSHI | JULY 14, 2011
A Thousand Points of Light
When it comes to bringing electricity to the developing world, small is beautiful.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 11, 2011
Poland's 'Vietnam Syndrome' in Afghanistan
A high-profile war crimes trial points out the dangerous divide between America and its allies on the ground in Afghanistan.
BY ALEKSANDRA KULCZUGA | JULY 7, 2011
5 Key U.S. Cables for Understanding Thailand's Turmoil
Obtained by Reuters and curated by Andrew MacGregor Marshall.
JUNE 29, 2011
Poor Little Rich Country
How do you categorize India, a nation that is at once fantastically wealthy and desperately poor?
BY PATRICK FRENCH | JUNE 24, 2011
Postcards from Hell, 2011
Images from the world's most failed states.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 20, 2011
Fortress India
Why is Delhi building a new Berlin Wall to keep out its Bangladeshi neighbors?
BY SCOTT CARNEY, JASON MIKLIAN, KRISTIAN HOELSCHER | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Through Rose-Colored Corrective Lenses
Poor vision is a major hurdle to getting ahead in the developing world. Fortunately, remedies are cheaper and easier -- and more profitable -- than they've ever been before.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JUNE 13, 2011
Pyongyang Spring
Could Kim Jong Il's regime be the next autocratic government to fall? Don't bet on it.
BY SEBASTIAN STRANGIO | JUNE 8, 2011
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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