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Can a Supercomputer Predict a Revolution?
Not quite yet. But a new study suggests how it may one day be possible.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
Reading Shakespeare in Kandahar
The United States has won some measure of revenge in the 10 years since 9/11. But as in Shakespeare's bloodthirsty play Titus Andronicus, has the cost been too great?
BY NICK SCHIFRIN | SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
Lightning Rod
As Dick Cheney's punch-throwing memoir hits store shelves, Foreign Policy hosts a freewheeling debate on the legacy of America's most controversial vice president.
AUGUST 31, 2011
The Road to Tahrir
The roots of Egyptians' rage can be traced back to bad economic advice from the IMF -- and the crony capitalism it left behind.
BY TY MCCORMICK | AUGUST 18, 2011
Life After Debt
In this month's market upheavals in the United States and Europe, we are witnessing the end of a seven-decade economic experiment. But does anyone have any clue what comes next?
BY JAMES MACDONALD | AUGUST 18, 2011
The FP Survey: The Internet
You can't talk about the future without talking about the thing that's shaping the future the most. Some 20 years on, the Internet has upended entrenched business models, opened up a world of information to people all over the globe, and possibly even helped topple a dictator or two. But is the open web in danger? As 24/7 connectivity becomes an ever more inextricable part of our daily lives, FP asked some of the world's top experts to tell us where the Net is headed next.
SEPT/OCT 2011
Why Is It So Hard to Find a Suicide Bomber These Days?
A decade after 9/11, the mystery is not why so many Muslims turn to terror -- but why so few have joined al Qaeda's jihad.
BY CHARLES KURZMAN | SEPT/OCT 2011
Super Bad
With the debt ceiling impasse and legislative gridlock sucking all the air out of Washington, Foreign Policy asked the experts: Is this really the worst Congress ever?
JULY 27, 2011
The Forgetting Stone
"No matter how many years may pass, do not forget this warning": A poet’s look at Japan’s centuries of rebuilding over fault-lines, from FP’s latest ebook.
BY MARIKO NAGAI | JULY 27, 2011
A Continent, Sinking
Europe's financial crisis is a Titanic moment, threatening to bring down not only the EU's major economies, but its political raison d'être. Is it too late to save the ship?
BY STEVEN ERLANGER | JULY 20, 2011
Assassin Nation
After more than three decades of targeted killings, is there anyone left alive who can actually run Afghanistan?
BY EDWARD GIRARDET | JULY 18, 2011
Red Shirts and Rowdy Royals
The secret WikiLeaks cables that explain how Thailand went from paradise to political mayhem.
BY ANDREW MACGREGOR MARSHALL | JUNE 29, 2011
Lagarde's To-Do List
What should Christine Lagarde do on Day 1 as managing director of the IMF? Five experts weigh in.
JUNE 28, 2011
Where Have All the Girls Gone?
It's true: Western money and advice really did help fuel the explosion of sex selection in Asia.
BY MARA HVISTENDAHL | JUNE 27, 2011
Leaving Afghanistan
Seven Afghanistan experts review the president's plans for ending the war.
JUNE 23, 2011
Twilight of the Nuba
Is the Sudanese regime embarking on another war of extinction?
BY DAN MORRISON | JUNE 23, 2011
Fading Legacy
Yelena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov were giants. Why do so few Russians remember them?
BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN | JUNE 20, 2011
Bad Guys Still Matter
Why 2011 is turning out to be a very bad year for dictators.
BY PAUL COLLIER | JUNE 20, 2011
Democracy Unleashed
With a flurry of elections hitting Africa this year, here are four countries where things could get lively -- maybe too lively.
BY JOELLE BURBANK | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong
*And why it matters today in a new age of revolution.
BY LEON ARON | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Meltdown
For the first time, Boris Yeltsin's right-hand man tells the inside story of the coup that killed glasnost -- and changed the world.
BY GENNADY BURBULIS WITH MICHELE A. BERDY | JULY/AUGUST 2011
The Long, Lame Afterlife of Mikhail Gorbachev
A cautionary tale about what happens when you fail to see the revolution coming.
BY ANNE APPLEBAUM | JULY/AUGUST 2011
The Great Rebalancing
With the world finally inching out of recession, the rules of global markets are being rewritten. We asked 55 of the world's top economists to tell us what to think.
JULY/AUGUST 2011
On the Economy, Be Careful What You Wish For
A major shift in global economic power is approaching. Can the U.S. cope?
BY IAN BREMMER | JULY/AUGUST 2011
The Cynical Dairy Farmer's Guide to the New Middle East
How a couple of cows explain a changing region: equal opportunity offender edition.
BY KARIM SADJADPOUR | JUNE 15, 2011
The Man Who Would Be King
In the five years since taking office, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has consolidated a dangerous amount of power. Now, his citizens are angry and his opponents scheme. But is it too late?
BY BEN VAN HEUVELEN | JUNE 13, 2011
Pool Party at Saleh's
My surreal afternoon with Yemen's president.
BY LAUREN GOULDING | JUNE 6, 2011
The Roadblock in the Obama Doctrine
President Obama may say he's committed to international institutions and multilateral engagement, but the Israel-Palestine debacle keeps tripping him up.
BY DAVID BOSCO | MAY 19, 2011
Not Perfect, But a Long Way from W.
Why Obama is emerging as the Roger Federer of diplomacy.
BY DAVID J. ROTHKOPF | MAY 19, 2011
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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