Southeast Asia
Will the Good BRICS Please Stand Up?
You can call them respectable democracies, but India, Brazil, and South Africa will be judged by how they act abroad. And on the Syria question, it's been shameful.
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 9, 2012
Six International Newspaper Columnists Who Actually Like Mitt Romney
The Republican candidate has boosters in unlikely places -- from Canada to the Congo.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | MARCH 8, 2012
The World in Photos This Week
Mr. Netanyahu goes to Washington, Vladimir Putin's tearful election, and Prince Harry wins a race.
MARCH 8, 2012
The Personality Problem
In an age of globalization and revolutionary upheaval, grand impersonal forces might appear to be winning out. But don't discount the human factor.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MARCH 7, 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
Iran Is the Great Distraction
Why Obama and Netanyahu are having the wrong conversation this week.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MARCH 5, 2012
Stuck in a Rut
If the Republicans really want to attack President Obama on foreign policy, they’re going to have to do a lot better than just recycling tired, old ideas.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | MARCH 2, 2012
Mind the Gap
Inequality is an increasing problem around the world. But there are cures.
BY PETER PASSELL | MARCH 1, 2012
A Threat We Can Live With
Most Americans really don’t like North Korea, but few say it’s worth going to war to make them get rid of their nuclear weapons.
BY SCOTT CLEMENT | FEBRUARY 29, 2012
Leap Day in North Korea
Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Pyongyang is a modest success. But let's not get carried away.
BY MARK FITZPATRICK | FEBRUARY 29, 2012
Above the Law
Pakistan's activist lawyers and judges may have thrown out Pervez Musharraf, but they're no democrats. In fact, they're a grave and growing threat to Pakistan's future.
BY ANATOL LIEVEN | FEBRUARY 29, 2012
The New Asian Tiger?
Ten things you didn't know about Vietnam's rise.
BY MARCO BREU, RICHARD DOBBS | FEBRUARY 23, 2012
China Goes Linsane
The phenomenal rise of NBA wunderkind Jeremy Lin is sweeping mainland China -- even though he's Taiwanese.
BY DAVID YANG | FEBRUARY 16, 2012
Off the Beaten Path
Some of the best economic innovations come from places you wouldn't expect.
BY JEFFREY FRANKEL | FEBRUARY 16, 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
Bull in the China Shop
The Obama administration is welcoming China's presumptive next leader, Xi Jinping. But how can it make good policy when the strategy is a mess?
BY DANIEL BLUMENTHAL | FEBRUARY 10, 2012
Holey Days
Photos of piercing and prayer during the Tamil holiday of Thaipusam.
BY LOIS PARSHLEY | FEBRUARY 8, 2012
No Joke
Burma's famous comedian-cum-activist explains why he can forgive but refuses to forget.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | FEBRUARY 7, 2012
Immunizing the Body Politic
Want to promote democracy in Burma? Start by making sure people are well enough to vote.
BY JACK C. CHOW | FEBRUARY 7, 2012
The 'Untouchable'
Meet Mayawati, India's multimillionaire lower-caste power broker and politician.
BY SADANAND DHUME | FEBRUARY 6, 2012
Canceling the Mullahs' Credit Card
How to sever Iran's financial lifeline.
BY MARK DUBOWITZ, JONATHAN SCHANZER | FEBRUARY 1, 2012
The Prisoners' Dilemma
While Myanmar's reforms this year may appear speedy to outside observers, for its imprisoned activists, the changes are long overdue.
BY MEGHA RAJAGOPALAN | JANUARY 30, 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
Paper Tigers
Myanmar may be opening to democracy, but just how free is the country’s notoriously closed media?
BY SEBASTIAN STRANGIO | JANUARY 20, 2012
The Top 10 Trends in Global Freedom
One might expect, given last year's headlines across the Middle East -- as well as promising political developments in authoritarian countries from Myanmar to Cuba -- that 2011 was a banner year for freedom. The reality is more complicated.
BY ARCH PUDDINGTON | JANUARY 18, 2012
The Smog That Ate Beijing
What China's capital really looks like.
BY SEAN GALLAGHER | JANUARY 18, 2012
How China's Boom Caused the Financial Crisis
And why it matters today.
BY HELEEN MEES | JANUARY 17, 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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