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Defeating Extreme Poverty
An exclusive excerpt of USAID's 2013 Annual Letter.
BY RAJIV SHAH | MARCH 18, 2013
President Obama's 2013 State of the Union Address
As prepared for delivery.
BY BARACK OBAMA | FEBRUARY 13, 2013
Hillary Clinton's Remarks at FP's 'Transformational Trends' Forum
The secretary of state delivers a speech on the future of U.S. foreign policy during a conference sponsored by the Foreign Policy Group and the State Department's Policy Planning Staff at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
BY HILLARY CLINTON | NOVEMBER 30, 2012
Mitt Romney's Remarks at Virginia Military Institute
As prepared for delivery.
BY MITT ROMNEY | OCTOBER 8, 2012
Suggestion for Mediation Between the Islamic Movements and the West
BY MOHAMED AL ZAWAHIRI | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
Paul Krugman on 5 Other FP Global Thinkers
The New York Times columnist has a lot to say about other Thinkers. Here's a small sample.
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
Three Days in Foros
In August 1991, Soviet hardliners held Mikhail Gorbachev captive at a Crimean resort in a last-ditch effort to save the crumbling Soviet empire. Anatoly Chernyaev, Gorbachev's foreign policy advisor was there when it happened. In this excerpt from the diary he kept at the time -- newly translated into English -- he tells the story of the coup attempt that destroyed the USSR.
BY ANATOLY CHERNYAEV | JUNE 21, 2011
Escaping from Afghanistan's Mad-Max Present
What Osama bin Laden's death means for South Asia's future.
BY ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER | MAY 3, 2011
"Bin Laden is No Longer a Threat"
The late-night administration briefing on the killing of Osama bin Laden.
MAY 2, 2011
What the World Got Wrong in Côte D'Ivoire
Why is the United Nations entrenching former colonial powers on our continent? Africans can and should take the lead in resolving their own disputes.
BY THABO MBEKI | APRIL 29, 2011
Ataturk Was No Autocrat
APRIL 1, 2011
The Qaddafi I Know
The Libyan leader was no saint. But the West was wrong to intervene in African affairs.
BY YOWERI MUSEVENI | MARCH 24, 2011
The Final Frontier
Our new space strategy boldly goes where no U.S. policy has gone before.
BY GREGORY L. SCHULTE | FEBRUARY 9, 2011
Open Letter: Ivory Coast, the war against civilians
“The Gbagbo mafia is struggling first and foremost for power,” affirms a group of experts on West Africa, who are concerned about the “risk that the situation will escalate into a civil war”
JANUARY 31, 2011
Transcript: "The Obama/Bush Foreign Policies: Why Can't America Change?"
Text as delivered of a speech by journalist Seymour Hersh in Doha, Qatar, on Jan. 17, 2011.
JANUARY 22, 2011
An Open Letter from El Diario
Ciudad Juárez's daily newspaper explains Mexico's conflict, beseeches the United States to change its policy, and mourns the deaths of its own.
BY OSVALDO RODRÍGUEZ BORUNDA | DECEMBER 8, 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
Why I Nominated Liu Xiaobo
On January 29, 2010, Kwame Anthony Appiah, the president of the global literary and human rights NGO PEN, sent this letter nominating Liu Xiaobo for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize. Republished here with permission.
BY KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH | OCTOBER 8, 2010
I Have No Enemies
Read 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo's final statement, issued just two days before he was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Christmas Day, 2009.
BY LIU XIAOBO | OCTOBER 8, 2010
Charter 08
Read the manifesto that landed 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in prison.
OCTOBER 8, 2010
'We Need to Be Big-hearted and Hard-headed'
As the world convenes at the United Nations to assess the progress on the Millennium Development Goals, President Barack Obama's speech outlines the administration's new Global Development Policy, which will change "the way [America] does business" when it comes to helping developing nations build a "path out of poverty."
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
'A Trail of Corruption'
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
The Fastest to Die
A study reveals how deeply the wounds of conflict have cut the Central African Republic -- and not where you would expect.
BY PATRICK VINCK, PHUONG PHAM | AUGUST 3, 2010
Survey Charts Darfur Opinion for First Time
Those most affected by the crisis say they want Sudan's President Omar Hassan al Bashir prosecuted, are skeptical of chances for peace, and insist on reparations for crimes.
BY REBECCA HAMILTON | JULY 15, 2010
Unsettled
Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu may manage to paper over their differences next week, but deep disagreements remain -- Israel's settlements foremost among them.
BY BARBARA SLAVIN | JULY 2, 2010
'None of This Is Easy'
Gen. David Petraeus agreed Wednesday to become commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. In his testimony last week to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Petraeus portrayed an Afghanistan that is on the right track, but still has a long way to go before it can fend for itself.
BY DAVID PETRAEUS | JUNE 23, 2010
Al-Qaeda Central and the Internet
Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative Policy Paper: Executive Summary
BY DANIEL KIMMAGE | APRIL 26, 2010
The indispensable nation's indispensable weapon
BY JAMES TRAUB
Why Obama hasn't exactly won the war on homegrown terrorism
BY JANE HARMAN
Did Turkey just become a little more like Texas?
BY MARYA HANNUN
Was the killing of a British soldier in London actually an act of terrorism?
BY H.A. HELLYER
WikiLeaks hits back at documentary with 'annotated transcript'
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Mystery solved: John Kerry really ate turkey shwarma
BY MARYA HANNUN
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