Interview

'The Law of Politics' According to Sergei Lavrov

An exclusive interview with Russia's top diplomat.

INTERVIEW BY SUSAN B. GLASSER | MAY/JUNE 2013

Epiphanies from Chris Anderson

The entrepreneur and technology theorist weighs in on drones, surveillance, and what's coming next.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | MAY/JUNE 2013

Doctor in a Desperate Land

Why an American has chosen to bind his life to Sudan.

BY JEFFREY BARTHOLET | MARCH 7, 2013

Epiphanies from Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Nigeria's finance minister on resource curses, African growth, and why America shouldn't be so smug about corruption.

INTERVIEW BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MARCH 4, 2013

Epiphanies from Bernard-Henri Lévy

"Arab Winter" is a stupid slogan and the West needs to get over its China fixation, says France's most prominent intellectual.

INTERVIEW BY ERIC PAPE | JANUARY 2, 2013

Enterprise vs. Enterprise

Which is better, the starship or the aircraft carrier?

BY MICHAEL PECK | DECEMBER 24, 2012

Zero Farce Thirty

The man who nearly stopped 9/11 tells FP why Kathryn Bigelow's movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden gets it wrong.  

INTERVIEW BY TY MCCORMICK | DECEMBER 19, 2012

'These Guys Are Thugs'

Opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei speaks exclusively to Foreign Policy on the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's political crisis.

Interview by DAVID KENNER | DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Case Against Benjamin Netanyahu

Ehud Olmert may decide not to run against Benjamin Netanyahu this time around. But either way, he’s betting that crossing an American president will have political consequences in Israel.

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | DECEMBER 3, 2012

A Change Is Gonna Come

Chen Guangcheng on freedom, violence, and the possibility of a revolution in China.

INTERVIEW BY ISAAC STONE FISH | DECEMBER 2012

The Inconvenient Revolution

An interview with a leading human rights activist from Bahrain

BY AZZURRA MERINGOLO | NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Burning Questions

What Martha Raddatz would ask the presidential candidates at Monday's foreign-policy debate.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | OCTOBER 19, 2012

Huntsman Speaks Out

Republican primary contender Jon Huntsman sounds off on the U.S. presidential race -- and the big issue the candidates aren't talking about.

INTERVIEW BY ISAAC STONE FISH | OCTOBER 17, 2012

No Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership

One of Africa's top business leaders talks about the challenges of encouraging good governance.

INTERVIEW BY TY MCCORMICK | OCTOBER 17, 2012

Epiphanies from Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The "Black Swan" theorist reflects on the most stable country in human history and the folly of the European Union.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | NOVEMBER 2012

Aircraft Carriers in Space

Naval analyst Chris Weuve talks to Foreign Policy about what Battlestar Galactica gets right about space warfare.

BY MICHAEL PECK | SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

How to Save the Regime in Tehran

Shirin Ebadi, Iran's leading human rights activist, explains why on attack on the country's nuclear program is just what the mullahs have been yearning for.

BY NAZILA FATHI | SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Fear Premium

An exclusive conversation with Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer on the hidden economic risks as geopolitical tensions bubble over in the Middle East and China.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

He's With the Band

An interview with the first man of Pussy Riot.

INTERVIEW BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

It Wasn't Us

In an exclusive interview, the Islamic radical group accused of masterminding the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi protests its innocence.

INTERVIEW BY MARY FITZGERALD | SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Pakistan's Charm Offensive

Islamabad is making friends -- just not with America. 

BY MATTHIEU AIKINS | SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

AQ Khan Speaks to Foreign Policy

The worst nuclear proliferator in history sounds off on his political ambitions.

INTERVIEW BY SIMON HENDERSON | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

'Twitter Is My City': An Exclusive Interview with Ai Weiwei

Beijing's best-known dissident, architect, and creative provocateur tells Jonathan Landreth what's wrong with China's frenetic capital.

INTERVIEW BY JONATHAN LANDRETH | SEPT/OCT 2012

Epiphanies from Salman Rushdie

The Midnight's Children author reflects on life under fatwa, the Arab Spring, and his one-night stand with Twitter.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | SEPT/OCT 2012

The Teddy Bear Bombers

Foreign Policy speaks with the Swedish activists who dropped a planeload of stuffed animals into Belarus, Europe's last dictatorship.

INTERVIEW BY ELIAS GROLL | AUGUST 2, 2012

Spooked

Israel's former military intelligence chief sounds off on Syria and other regional dangers facing the Jewish state.

BY MOHAMED FADEL FAHMY, ORIT PERLOV | JULY 25, 2012

Capital Blues

Embattled Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray tells FP what he admires about Beijing.

BY ISAAC STONE FISH, ELIAS GROLL | JULY 24, 2012

"The Elite Isn't Going to Lose Control"

Middle East scholar Joshua Stacher explains why democratization in Egypt is only skin deep.

BY PAUL STAROBIN | JULY 19, 2012

Unipolar Disorder

Why are American voters so all over the place when it comes to foreign policy?

INTERVIEW BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | JULY 3, 2012

Old-Fashioned Diplomacy in the
Twitter Age

An exclusive interview with the secretary of state.

INTERVIEW BY SUSAN B. GLASSER | JULY/AUGUST 2012