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The Great Asian Land Grab
How a World Bank program helped displace tens of thousands of urban poor.
BY MIKE ECKEL | MAY 13, 2011
We Told You So
India is cackling over news of Osama getting whacked in Pakistan.
BY HENRY FOY | MAY 2, 2011
Corps Concerns
In an age of globe-trotting American college kids, ubiquitous Internet access, and cell phone networks that reach even sub-Saharan cattle herders, does the world still need the Peace Corps?
BY CHARLES KENNY | FEBRUARY 22, 2011
This Week at War: Lost in Space
Can the Pentagon afford to protect its orbital interests?
BY ROBERT HADDICK | FEBRUARY 11, 2011
This Week at War: The Pakistan Scenario
How the United States could end up paying even more for an anti-American Egypt.
BY ROBERT HADDICK | FEBRUARY 4, 2011
Close Encounters of the Buddhist Kind
An exclusive look inside a booming multibillion-dollar, evangelical, global Thai cult.
CAPTIONS BY RON GLUCKMAN, PHOTOS BY LUKE DUGGLEBY | JANUARY 20, 2011
The Serpent King
How a notorious Malaysian wildlife smuggler was brought to justice -- and what it tells us about stopping the world's most profitable black market.
BY BRYAN CHRISTY | DECEMBER 28, 2010
Planet Gulag
The world has many Liu Xiaobos. Here are 15 who matter.
TEXT BY FREEDOM HOUSE | DECEMBER 9, 2010
The Stories You Missed in 2010
Ten events and trends that were overlooked this year, but may be leading the headlines in 2011.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | DECEMBER 2010
The Long Currency War
The G-20 summit failed to solve the international currency war -- and it may soon be escalating.
BY KATI SUOMINEN | NOVEMBER 12, 2010
The Indonesia Opportunity
Why this Southeast Asian country is Obama's best hope for relations with the Muslim world.
BY JAMES K. GLASSMAN, JUAN ZARATE | NOVEMBER 9, 2010
Greed is Good…for Burma
In snatching up the country's wealth for themselves, the ruling junta's rapacious generals may actually be opening the door for democracy. And, ironically, China may be the reformers' greatest ally.
BY WEN LIAO | NOVEMBER 5, 2010
A New 'New Beginning'
What Barack Obama should tell the world in his Asia speech.
BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 5, 2010
Forget About the Sham Burmese Elections
It's the growing risk of ethnic violence the world should worry about.
BY STEPHANIE T. KLEINE-AHLBRANDT | NOVEMBER 5, 2010
Obama's Asian Tour
Washington may have just gotten a lot less friendly for the president, but he still has plenty of fans in Asia. A look at where he's going, who he's meeting, and what it means.
BY JARED MONDSCHEIN, ANDREW SWIFT | NOVEMBER 5, 2010
New U.N. Report Reveals a Smarter, Healthier -- Yet More Unequal -- World
On the 20th anniversary of the world's most in-depth country ranking, the U.N. Human Development Index finds that global progress is largely on track. But those left behind are more numerous than ever.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | NOVEMBER 4, 2010
Robert Kaplan's Journey to the New Center of the Universe
The Indian Ocean is our future: An exclusive FP photo essay and interview with the author of Monsoon.
INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | OCTOBER 27, 2010
The End of the Charm Offensive
China's neighbors welcome a strong China, just not a dominant one -- and that's where the United States comes in.
BY JOHN LEE | OCTOBER 26, 2010
The World's Jon Stewarts
The Daily Show star has it easy. An FP List of the world's most influential political satirists shows that in dangerous places, telling jokes can be hazardous to your health.
BY MAX STRASSER | OCTOBER 18, 2010
From Russia With Blood
C.J. Chivers talks with Foreign Policy about the Kalashnikov, the world's real weapon of mass destruction.
INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | OCTOBER 15, 2010
Values Voters
How Malaysia's right-wing Islamist party became the country's best hope for political reform.
BY DUSTIN ROASA | OCTOBER 12, 2010
A Puzzle in Pyongyang
Kim Jong Un's ascension in North Korea poses as many questions as it answers.
BY RÜDIGER FRANK | OCTOBER 8, 2010
Pakistan Goes Rogue
What the sole footnote in Bob Woodward's Obama's Wars tells us about Europe's growing fears of a terrorist attack.
BY SIMON HENDERSON | OCTOBER 4, 2010
The Japan Syndrome
China's teetering on the verge of its own lost decade, and a meltdown in Beijing would make Japan's economic malaise look like child's play.
BY ETHAN DEVINE | SEPTEMBER 30, 2010
Is China Afraid of Its Own People?
The diplomatic tussle over the East China Sea has calmed down, but a bigger foreign-policy problem awaits: China's newly empowered masses won't take 'no' for an answer, and Beijing is right to be scared.
BY WILLY LAM | SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
Kien Giang
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
Ben Tre
“When [the midwife] meets a poor woman with an unexpected pregnancy, she gives that woman money in exchange for agreeing to put that child in [redacted orphanage.”
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
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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