In Box

After America

How does the world look in an age of U.S. decline? Dangerously unstable.

BY ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI | JAN/FEB 2012

Epiphanies from Austan Goolsbee

President Obama's former economic advisor speaks out.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | JAN/FEB 2012

Energy Independence: A Short History

A century and a half of an idea whose time has never come.

BY CHARLES HOMANS | JAN/FEB 2012

The Apathy Curve

The world's unhappiest and most content are on the move. What about those stuck in the middle?

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JAN/FEB 2012

The Post-Colonial Hangover

Some empires really were worse than others.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JAN/FEB 2012

The Things They Carried: The Russian Oligarch

What does a Moscow billionaire take on vacation?

BY JULIA IOFFE | JAN/FEB 2012

South Africa's Awkward Teenage Years

The Rainbow Nation has finally arrived on the world stage -- but did its conscience stay at home?

BY EVE FAIRBANKS | JAN/FEB 2012

The World's Most Controversial Cultural Sites

Where ancient history meets modern politics.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | DECEMBER 2011

The New New Europe

How the crisis is reshaping the continent.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | DECEMBER 2011

The Stories You Missed in 2011

10 events and trends that were overlooked this year, but may be leading the headlines in 2012.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | DECEMBER 2011

Obama the Hawk

It may be hard to remember now, but America's current president first distinguished himself as an anti-war candidate, winning a Nobel Peace Prize after only a few months on the job. But as president, Barack Obama has more often than not played the tough guy.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | DECEMBER 2011

The Things They Carried: The Afghan Policewoman

A BlackBerry knockoff, a pocket knife, and salt to throw in the eyes of bad guys.

INTERVIEW BY ANNA BADKHEN | NOVEMBER 2011

Money Market

How the West was won -- in the Middle Ages

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | NOVEMBER 2011

Strange Trade

Recent research reveals the surprising unintended consequences of free trade

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | NOVEMBER 2011

Epiphanies from Nandan Nilekani

"Seattle has Bill," Thomas Friedman once wrote. "Bangalore has Nandan." The co-founder of Infosys -- the Indian company that made "outsourcing" a household word -- famously gave Friedman the central conceit for The World Is Flat when he said that global commerce's "playing field is being leveled" by communications technology. Now tasked with providing digital IDs to 1.2 billion Indians, Nandan Nilekani is trying to finish the job he started in the private sector: bringing a country that never entirely left the 19th century all the way into the 21st.

INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | NOVEMBER 2011

Haiti Doesn't Need Your Old T-Shirt

The West can (and should) stop dumping its hand-me-downs on the developing world.

BY CHARLES KENNY | NOVEMBER 2011

Responsibility to Protect: A Short History

Just what is a just war?

BY CHARLES HOMANS | NOVEMBER 2011

Country for Old Men

A dissident reports from the ruins of the daddy state, where Papá Fidel is now just the patient-in-chief.

BY YOANI SÁNCHEZ | NOVEMBER 2011

War Games: A Short History

How ancient Greek amusements became an indispensable 21st-century military tool.

BY CHARLES HOMANS | SEPT/OCT 2011

Millions May Die ... Or Not.

How disaster hype became a big global business.

BY DAVID RIEFF | SEPT/OCT 2011

Epiphanies from Bob Woodward

A decade and five books later, the world's most famous investigative journalist has told us more about what happened behind closed doors in Washington's global war on terror than anyone. So how does he think it will be remembered?

INTERVIEW BY SUSAN GLASSER | SEPT/OCT 2011

Huge in Asia

They may not play in Peoria anymore. But these storied American brands are reinventing themselves to sell in Shanghai.

BY DUSTIN ROASA | SEPT/OCT 2011

Dangerous Aid

Does paying countries to fight terrorism always backfire?

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | SEPT/OCT 2011

Rich Country, Poor Country

The economic divide continues to expand.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | SEPT/OCT 2011

The Things They Carried: The Plugged-in Foreign Minister

Carl Bildt, the gadget-obsessed, hyper-accessible Swedish foreign minister, says he spends more than 200 days on the road a year (and that's if his travel is "below average"). "You need to," he says, to "be able to influence things." In between catching the Paris Air Show and flying home for the Swedish midsummer holiday, he spoke with Foreign Policy about what's in his basic black Tumi carry-on.

INTERVIEW BY BRITT PETERSON | SEPT/OCT 2011

The Lap of Luxembourgery

So what if it has the world's highest per capita GDP? A visit to the debt-ridden capital of European complacency.

BY ERIC PAPE | SEPT/OCT 2011

The Things They Carried: The Tahrir Square Irregular

Hazem Marghany, a 25-year-old architect, spent 18 days in Cairo's Tahrir Square during the revolution and has come back every Friday since. Here's what he packs in his black Adidas laptop bag.

Interview By MAX STRASSER | JULY/AUGUST 2011

The Revolution Will Be Tweeted

Life in the vanguard of the new Twitter proletariat.

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | JULY/AUGUST 2011

A Guide to the Foreign-Policy Twitterati

Missing out on the Twitter Revolution? Here's a cheat sheet to get you started.

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | JULY/AUGUST 2011

An Unfair Deal

Fair trade is overrated.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JULY/AUGUST 2011