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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
Understanding Libya's Michael Corleone
The international community saw Muammar's Western-educated, reform-minded son as the best hope for a freer, more democratic Libya. Did they get him wrong?
INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | MARCH 7, 2011
Interview: Kostyantyn Gryshchenko
Ukraine's foreign minister on what Egypt could learn from the Orange Revolution and the prosecution of Yulia Tymoshenko.
INTERVIEW BY SUSAN GLASSER AND JOSHUA E. KEATING | FEBRUARY 14, 2011
We need to 'keep kicking their behinds': Mohamed ElBaradei speaks to FP
An exclusive interview with Egypt's catalyst for change on the turmoil in Cairo.
INTERVIEW BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | FEBRUARY 10, 2011
Egypt Over the Brink
The author of a prescient book warning of an Egyptian uprising says to expect a mad scramble for power in the months ahead.
BY LAUREN E. BOHN AND SARAH LYNCH | FEBRUARY 8, 2011
The General Wants Back into His Labyrinth
Pakistan's former military leader has announced he's returning from exile and wants his old job back. Here's what he would do differently -- and why he wouldn't want Hamid Karzai as his counterpart next door.
INTERVIEW BY LAURA WELLS | JANUARY 6, 2011
Tony Blair Looks Ahead
The former prime minister and Middle East envoy offers his thoughts on the peace process, austerity measures, and whether he could have prevented the financial crisis.
INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | DECEMBER 16, 2010
Why I'm Going to Oslo
Wan Yanhai, a Chinese AIDS activist and longtime friend of Liu Xiaobo, is the Nobel laureate's only close colleague to elude Beijing's crackdown and who will attend the Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo. In an exclusive interview with FP, he shares his thoughts on Charter 08 and China's future.
DECEMBER 9, 2010
Exclusive: A Video Message from Aung San Suu Kyi
The newly released Burmese democracy advocate speaks about her selection as an FP Top Global Thinker of 2010.
BY AUNG SAN SUU KYI | NOVEMBER 30, 2010
Bringing Back Rule of Law
Louise Arbour, CEO of the International Crisis Group and Global Thinker No. 71, spoke with Foreign Policy's Susan Glasser about WikiLeaks and the future of international human rights law. Excerpts:
INTERVIEW BY SUSAN GLASSER | DECEMBER 2010
Global Warning
Mohamed Nasheed, president of the climate-change-threatened Maldives, speaks via email with Foreign Policy's Charles Homans about the difficulty of diplomacy, the promise of protest, and why moving his whole country might be more difficult than he once thought.
INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | DECEMBER 2010
The Pessimist
Nobel-winning economist and FP Global Thinker No. 30 Joseph Stiglitz was one of the first to predict the global financial crisis -- and has since been one of the most vocal critics of the U.S. government's response. Talking to Foreign Policy's Benjamin Pauker, he explained why he's not celebrating yet.
INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | DECEMBER 2010
How We Got Trapped by Carbon
Vaclav Smil, Global Thinker No. 49, tells Foreign Policy's Charles Homans how the West got tricked into thinking it could overcome its gasoline addiction.
INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | DECEMBER 2010
Art in a Time of Prosperity
Alvaro Vargas Llosa, son of Nobel laureate and Global Thinker No. 64 Mario Vargas Llosa, offers FP his look at the potentially bland future of Latin American literature.
INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | DECEMBER 2010
The Soft-Power Power
Susan Glasser, Foreign Policy's editor in chief, met Foreign Minister Celso Amorim in
Brasilia for a wide-ranging conversation on Brazil's role as the rest rises.
Below, the edited excerpts.
INTERVIEW BY SUSAN GLASSER | DECEMBER 2010
Mr. 'Zero Problems'
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu sat down with Foreign
Policy's managing editor Blake Hounshell in Doha, Qatar, this fall to
discuss his side of the Iran-Brazil-Turkey triangle. Edited excerpts follow.
INTERVIEW BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | DECEMBER 2010
Radical Solutions for Palestine
As the current round of peace talks grinds to a halt, veteran Palestinian lawmaker Hanan Ashrawi tells Foreign Policy what the Palestinians are planning to do about it.
INTERVIEW BY DAVID KENNER | NOVEMBER 9, 2010
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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