Interview

'We've Got Bigger Problems Right Now'

Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer reveal the surprising winners and losers of the coming year, and debate whether the big brains at Davos can rescue a global economy in crisis.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | JANUARY 25, 2012

Interview: Dennis Ross

Washington's guru of Middle East peace talks to Foreign Policy about whether Obama's Iran policy will backfire -- and why the Palestinian push for statehood could wreck the United Nations.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | JANUARY 20, 2012

'Just Call Me Poor'

Want to work an economic miracle in Egypt? Hernando de Soto has some ideas.

INTERVIEW BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 12, 2012

Exclusive: Iraqi Vice President: Maliki Is Becoming a New Saddam

An arrest warrant for Iraq's Sunni vice president just days after the U.S. troop withdrawal has sparked fears that the country may once again plunge into sectarian violence.

BY URI FRIEDMAN | DECEMBER 22, 2011

Interview: Pál Schmitt

Hungary's president on his country's recent economic turmoil and why he still believes in the euro.

INTERVIEW BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | DECEMBER 2, 2011

The FP Interview: Alaa Al Aswany

Egypt's foremost novelist reflects on a year of revolution.

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

The FP Interview: Bill and Melinda Gates

Bill and Melinda Gates on some unexpected new sources of aid -- and what they've learned from trying to save the world.

INTERVIEW BY CHARLES KENNY | DECEMBER 2011

Filming Sarko

Director Xavier Durringer discusses his controversial new film about Nicolas Sarkozy -- and whether the president has changed French politics forever.

INTERVIEW BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | NOVEMBER 8, 2011

WikiWorld

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales talks about censorship, biased journalism, and the Arab Spring.

Interview by BLAKE HOUNSHELL | NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The FP Interview: Condoleezza Rice on Obama, “Leading from Behind,” Iraq, and More

The former secretary of state dishes on what the current administration gets right -- and what it gets wrong.

BY JOSH ROGIN | NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The Pharoah's Lawyer

The deposed Egyptian dictator's lawyer explains in an exclusive interview how he plans to defend a man once seen as above the law.

BY MOHAMED FADEL FAHMY | NOVEMBER 2, 2011

It Ain't Over 'Til the Tan Man Sings

Italy's most outspoken journalist on the secret to Silvio Berlusconi's continued survival -- and why it may be coming to an end soon.

INTERVIEW BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | OCTOBER 17, 2011

'There's a Huge Amount of Anger'

Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer let fly on Occupy Wall Street, why the GOP's cynical economic strategy is designed to make things worse, and whether China wants to ride to the rescue.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | OCTOBER 10, 2011

The Geopolitics of Energy in the 21st Century

The second installment of an interview with Daniel Yergin.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | OCTOBER 5, 2011

A Slow-Motion Revolution That Is Changing the World

An interview with Daniel Yergin.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | OCTOBER 4, 2011

Interview: John Baird

Canada's new foreign minister on Libya, Syria, and the thickening of America's borders.

INTERVIEW BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | AUGUST 10, 2011

Just How Bad Is Bad?

Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer debate the double-dip recession and whether China could end up like Europe's PIIGS.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | AUGUST 5, 2011

Interview: Rajiv Shah

The USAID administrator on the epic food crisis in the Horn of Africa, dealing with al Shabab, and why Somalia's famine is going to get worse before it gets better.

INTERVIEW BY ROBERT ZELIGER | JULY 28, 2011

Norway's 9/11?

Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of Norway's Peace Research Institute Oslo, explains why the Norwegian capital might have been on a terrorist's shortlist of potential targets.

INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | JULY 22, 2011

Interview: Alice Walker

The author and activist, who is setting sail for Gaza on a humanitarian mission, says Israel 'is the greatest terrorist' in the Middle East.

INTERVIEW BY ROBERT ZELIGER | JUNE 23, 2011

Interview: Ehsan ul-Haq

Pakistan's former head of Inter-Services Intelligence discusses 9/11, bin Laden and Pakistani security.

INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | JUNE 8, 2011

Straight Talk on the Arab Spring

John McCain's views on the revolutionary upheaval in the Middle East are more similar to the Obama administration's than either side might care to admit.

BY MARC LYNCH | MAY 25, 2011

Interview: Álvaro Uribe

Colombia's former president tells FP how his country came back from the brink, why he's staying in politics, and why it's dangerous (but worth it) to be on Twitter.

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MAY 17, 2011

Tweets of Gore

NPR social-media guru Andy Carvin explains the ethics of Twitter in a time of revolutionary upheaval.

Interview by BLAKE HOUNSHELL | MAY 6, 2011

Can Nonviolence Work in Iran?

Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo and longtime Italian diplomat and author Roberto Toscano on the future of Iran's opposition.

INTERVIEW BY KARIM SADJADPOUR | APRIL 18, 2011

Interview: Gil Kerlikowske

"We've become much better at producing drugs in the United States": America's drug czar talks to FP about Afghanistan, Mexico, and how American producers are getting back in the drug game.

INTERVIEW BY SUSAN GLASSER, JOSHUA E. KEATING | APRIL 1, 2011

Interview: Yermukhamet Yertysbayev

Is Kazakhstan ready for democracy?

INTERVIEW BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | APRIL 1, 2011

Nuclear Winner

Environmentalist icon turned nuclear-power booster Stewart Brand tells Foreign Policy why, even after the Fukushima disaster, he thinks nuclear is the energy of the future.

INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 22, 2011

Shakedown Artists

Earthquake expert Michael K. Lindell explains why the Japanese are better than the rest of us at preparing for earthquakes -- and what we can learn from them.

INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 11, 2011

When Women's Day Is a Thing of the Past

Talking to the head of U.N. Women about what a true post-feminist world would look like.

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MARCH 8, 2011