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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
Divide and Conquer
For Barack Obama, maybe getting nothing passed in Congress isn't so bad after all.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Chug for Growth
Drink and be merry -- it's all for the common good.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Track II Diplomacy: A Short History
How the left-field idea of diplomacy without diplomats became an essential tool of statecraft.
BY CHARLES HOMANS | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Fortress India
Why is Delhi building a new Berlin Wall to keep out its Bangladeshi neighbors?
BY SCOTT CARNEY, JASON MIKLIAN, KRISTIAN HOELSCHER | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Get Smart: How to Cram for 2012
The foreign-policy books you should be reading to get ready for election season.
BY DANIEL W. DREZNER | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Epiphanies from Henry Kissinger
America's most famous diplomat reflects on a very revolutionary 2011, the rise of China, and the prospects for a new Cold War.
INTERVIEW BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Half a Miracle
Medellín's rebirth is nothing short of astonishing. But have the drug lords really been vanquished?
BY FRANCIS FUKUYAMA, SETH COLBY | MAY/JUNE 2011
Why Recessions Are Good for Freedom
Democracy is best served with a side of economic stagnation.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY/JUNE 2011
Epiphanies from Gene Sharp
The intellectual father of the democratic revolution on what he learned from Gandhi and why he doesn't give advice.
INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | MAY/JUNE 2011
So Long, Chicken Little
The 9 most annoying sky-is-falling clichés in American foreign policy.
BY MICHAEL LIND | MARCH/APRIL 2011
The Not So Dark Ages
When it comes to comparing economies, 'medieval' may not mean what you think it means.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MARCH/APRIL 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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