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Does Facebook Have a Foreign Policy?

The social networking giant has the power to change the world for the better. But does it want to?

BY DAVID KIRKPATRICK | NOVEMBER 28, 2011

A History of (Non)Violence

Why humans are becoming more peaceful.

BY STEVEN PINKER | NOVEMBER 28, 2011

John Stuart Mill, Dead Thinker of the Year

The 19th century thinker still has much to teach us on liberty.

BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN | NOVEMBER 28, 2011

6 Ideas for the Ash Heap of History

The just-plain-wrong notions that (hopefully) bit the dust this year.

BY TYLER COWEN | NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Global Thinkers, Fill in the Blanks

The world's smartest people tell us what to think about Barack Obama, the Arab Spring, and the dizzying events of 2011.

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The Global Thinker Twitterati

A who's who of the foreign-policy Twitterverse in 2011. 

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The Mall of the World

What a Hong Kong shopping complex tells us about the true nature of globalization.

BY GORDON MATHEWS | NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Politics Stops at the Water's Edge

After two foreign-policy debates, we still have no idea what most Republican presidential candidates would do about the actual issues facing America abroad.

BY MICHAEL COHEN | NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Crunching the Numbers on the GOP Candidates

What the polls tell us about the Republican candidates on foreign policy.

BY SCOTT CLEMENT | NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The Grim Toll of Syria’s Violence

Syria is entering the bloodiest phase yet of its eight-month-old uprising. But is the death toll enough to bring down President Bashar al-Assad?

BY DAVID KENNER | NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Measuring Syria's Violence

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Ayatollah for a Day

I war-gamed an Israeli strike on Iran -- and it got ugly.

BY KARIM SADJADPOUR | NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The End of the Innocents

How America's longtime man in Southeast Asia, Jim Thompson, fought to stop the CIA's progression from a small spy ring to a large paramilitary agency -- and was never seen again.

BY JOSHUA KURLANTZICK | NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Plan Afghanistan

Why the Colombia model -- even if it means drug war and armed rebellion -- is the best chance for U.S. success in Central Asia.

BY PAUL WOLFOWITZ , MICHAEL O'HANLON | OCTOBER 28, 2011

What Does Siri Know About the World?

We asked the iPhone 4S's personal assistant, Siri, some of the toughest questions in international politics. At least she knows more than Herman Cain.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | OCTOBER 20, 2011

U.N. Rips Iran's Human Rights Record in New Report

An important reminder that the Islamic Republic's greatest victims are its own citizens.

BY BARBARA SLAVIN | OCTOBER 17, 2011

The World According to the GOP

What do the 2012 Republican candidates have to say about foreign policy?

COMPILED BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | NOVEMBER 2011

America at Dusk

FP asked a panel of writers from around the world to tell us what the United States is doing wrong. We got an earful.

NOVEMBER 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

The Myth of American Exceptionalism

The idea that the United States is uniquely virtuous may be comforting to Americans. Too bad it's not true.

BY STEPHEN M. WALT | NOVEMBER 2011

America Really Was That Great

… But that doesn't mean we are now.

BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, MICHAEL MANDELBAUM | NOVEMBER 2011

The Elephants in the Room

Barack Obama's Republican challengers haven't thought very deeply about foreign policy. It shows.

BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 2011

Napoleon's Curse

The illusion of omnipotence has exhausted America and spoiled its allies.

BY IAN BURUMA | NOVEMBER 2011

First Time's a Charm

Why America should ditch the two-term presidency.

BY SUNIL KHILNANI | NOVEMBER 2011

A Hummer in Every Driveway

Americans use more energy per capita than any other country, and have nothing to show for it.

BY VACLAV SMIL | NOVEMBER 2011

The Perils of Loose Living

For decades, Americans have looked to monetary policy as an engine of economic growth -- and suffered the dire consequences.

BY HELEEN MEES | NOVEMBER 2011

Cashing Out

America's status as the world's banker has shielded it from harsh economic realities for more than half a century. Not anymore.

BY FAN GANG | NOVEMBER 2011

Left Behind

Americans created the knowledge economy. So why can't they keep up with it anymore?

BY MISHAAL AL GERGAWI | NOVEMBER 2011

The America Issue

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Atomic Dogs

Why can't the world's nuclear energy watchdog do anything about Fukushima or Iran's weapons program? I went to find out.

BY KONSTANTIN KAKAES | SEPTEMBER 28, 2011