Interview

Robert Kaplan's Journey to the New Center of the Universe

The Indian Ocean is our future: An exclusive FP photo essay and interview with the author of Monsoon.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | OCTOBER 27, 2010

Interview: Viktor Ivanov

Putin's drug czar gets heated over California pot and Afghan poppies.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | OCTOBER 22, 2010

Interview: Viktoria Mohacsi

A Roma political leader and celebrated human rights campaigner speaks to FP on hate crimes, segregation, and why Europe needs to protect its most vulnerable minority.

INTERVIEW BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | OCTOBER 20, 2010

From Russia With Blood

C.J. Chivers talks with Foreign Policy about the Kalashnikov, the world's real weapon of mass destruction.

INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | OCTOBER 15, 2010

The Car Czar Speaks

Steven Rattner talks to FP about how he pulled Detroit back from the brink -- and what lessons that success could have for Obama going forward.

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | OCTOBER 14, 2010

An Island Divided

Cyprus's president talks to Foreign Policy about why Turkey is blocking a resolution to his nation's reunification.

INTERVIEW BY DAVID KENNER | SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Chained in the Colombian Jungle

The FARC's most famous hostage, Ingrid Betancourt, tells FP what six-and-a-half years of captivity in the jungle felt like.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Corrupt Democracy

Should the Barack Obama administration keep giving aid to the corrupt government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai? Kenyan whistle-blower John Githongo tells FP why pluralism and freedom will never thrive when everyone from officials to cab drivers are skimming off the top.

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Not Settling For Less

Foreign Policy speaks to Daniel Dayan, a leader of the Israeli West Bank settler movement, about holding Benjamin Netanyahu to his word, and how if Barack Obama were any worse he’d be Bill Clinton.

INTERVIEW BY DAVID KENNER | SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Green Light

Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, daughter of Iran's powerful Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a prominent advocate of the Green Movement, speaks to Foreign Policy about the future of Iran's opposition and her (low) opinion of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

INTERVIEW BY OMID MEMARIAN | SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

State Department Innovator Goes to Google

Jared Cohen, a high-profile advocate of the State Department's forays into "21st-century statecraft," is leaving Foggy Bottom for New York. In an exclusive interview with FP, he talks about his time at State and his new project: building a "think/do tank" called Google Ideas.

INTERVIEW BY CHRISTINA LARSON | SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

A Changed Climate Skeptic?

Bjorn Lomborg has long infuriated environmental activists with his contrarian views on global warming. Has he now embraced their cause?

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Swoons Over Miami

A conversation with author Saskia Sassen, who coined the term "global city." As she tells FP: Don't focus only on London and New York. The rest of the world should want to be the next Miami.

INTERVIEW BY CHRISTINA LARSON | AUGUST 27, 2010

Grain Pains

Imagine if the drought this summer near Moscow happened near Chicago or Beijing. Lester Brown has, and he's afraid.

INTERVIEW BY CHRISTINA LARSON | AUGUST 26, 2010

What's It Like to Be a Tourist in North Korea?

An American business professor, Patrick Chovanec, visits fields, casinos, and kindergartens in North Korea --  and explains how the Hermit Kingdom is and is not like Mordor.

INTERVIEW BY CHRISTINA LARSON | AUGUST 16, 2010

Googlopolis

Eric Schmidt tells FP what makes a city smart, how not to lose $1 trillion -- and the one place he's never been.

INTERVIEW BY CHRISTINA LARSON | SEPT. / OCT. 2010

"It's Going to Make a Huge Mess"

The man who coined the term "global warming" looks back at 35 years of climate change.

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | AUGUST 3, 2010

Papandreou’s Odyssey

The Greek prime minister has gone from leader of the socialist party to wielding the axe against entitlements -- and his long journey has just begun. In an exclusive interview, George Papandreou looks to the future and talks to FP about the Herculean tasks ahead.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | JULY 19, 2010

Interview: Marjane Satrapi

An acclaimed Iranian graphic artist and filmmaker tells FP why Iran is changing -- and how her stories have become a window into revolutionary Iran.

INTERVIEW BY GOLNAZ ESFANDIARI, ESFANDIARI, GOLNAZ | JULY 8, 2010

The Long Emergency

Barack Obama's administration is taking an expansive, ambitious approach to global health. Does that mean giving up on combating HIV/AIDS?

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 25, 2010

The David Petraeus I Know

The general’s former executive officer tells FP what to expect in Afghanistan.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | JUNE 24, 2010

Locked Up in Rwanda

An American lawyer is arrested in Kigali for genocide denial. Is it a sign of President Paul Kagame's creeping authoritarianism?

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 1, 2010

Sri Lanka Rejects War Crimes Accusations

Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris tells FP that an International Crisis Group report accusing his government of intentionally killing civilians is "nebulous" and shrouded in a "veil of secrecy."

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MAY 25, 2010

Afghanistan's Might-Have Been

Former presidential hopeful Abdullah Abdullah tells Washington that supporting Hamid Karzai and doing right by Afghanistan aren't the same thing.

INTERVIEW BY STEVE COLL | MAY 20, 2010

Interview: Raghuram Rajan

As the Greek economy threatens to spin out of control, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund discusses the roots of the crisis, and what it means for the future of the European Union.

Interview by DAVID KENNER | APRIL 29, 2010

The Ultimate Bug Zapper

Could a new weapon deal the definitive blow in the long battle of man vs. mosquito? Forget bed nets; think lasers. Nathan Myhrvold, Bill Gates's ideas guy, tells FP about his plans to defeat malaria.

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | APRIL 23, 2010

Interview: Raymond A. Joseph

Haiti's ambassador on his hopes for the more than $5 billion pledged in aid at this week's donor conference -- and why Haiti can't be rebuilt as a republic of NGOs.

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | APRIL 2, 2010

Interview: António Guterres

From Darfur to Afghanistan, the U.N.’s point man on refugees says, the world’s conflicts are getting “more worrisome and more difficult to solve.”

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MARCH 23, 2010

Crocker Looks Back

A candid interview from the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq on the recent elections, the Iraqi tendency toward authoritarianism, and President Barack Obama's proposed drawdown, which, Crocker admits, makes him "nervous."

INTERVIEW BY DAVID KENNER | MARCH 10, 2010

Interview: Tzipi Livni

Israel’s leading opposition politician says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs to “face reality” and work toward a two-state solution with the Palestinians -- before it’s too late.

INTERVIEW BY DAVID KENNER | MARCH 7, 2010