Special Report

The Wisdom of the Smart Crowd

We've polled the FP 100 to offer you cutting-edge thinking on everything from what's ahead in 2010 to what they're reading now. Here, the breakdown of who's who on our list.
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DECEMBER 2009

Grading Obama

After U.S. President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office, Foreign Policy asked a group of experts to grade him on everything from North Korea to nukes. On the anniversary of his historic election, we've reprised the experiment -- and found out that the White House isn't doing so well.

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The Af-Pak Channel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

AfPak Channel Archive

AUGUST 31, 2009

Is Karzai in Trouble?

BY JEAN MACKENZIE | AUGUST 17, 2009

Afghan Elections: The Contenders

Only one will win -- but all five look certain to figure on the Afghan political scene for years to come.

BY JEAN MACKENZIE | AUGUST 10, 2009

Afghan Elections

On August 20th, Afghans vote in the first presidential election monitored and administered by the country itself in more than 30 years. Who is likely to win? And What is at stake?

BY JEAN MACKENZIE, MACKENZIE, JEAN | AUGUST 6, 2009

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JULY 30, 2009

The AfPak Channel

JULY 7, 2009

Jihadistan

BY PETER BERGEN, KATHERINE TIEDEMANN | JULY 3, 2009

The AfPak Channel

JULY 3, 2009

The Plight of the Public Intellectual

Just what does it mean to be a leading intellectual? One of our honorees weighs in on the burdens and pleasures of making a living by ideas.

BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS | APRIL 10, 2008

The FP Index: Ranking the Rich

Poverty is blamed for everything from terrorism to bird flu. Rich nations have never sounded more committed to stamping it out. Is it all just hot air? The fourth annual CGD/FP Commitment to Development Index ranks 21 rich nations on whether they’re working to end global poverty -- or just making it worse.

AUGUST 8, 2006

The Failed States Index

Democracy may be spreading, but is the world more stable? In the second-annual Failed States Index, FP and the Fund for Peace track the countries on the edge of collapse.

BY FOREIGN POLICY & THE FUND FOR PEACE | APRIL 25, 2006

Long March to Nowhere

BY MINXIN PEI | APRIL 25, 2006

Rotting from the Inside Out

BY RODERICK MACFARQUHAR | APRIL 25, 2006

If People Lead, Elites Will Follow

BY BRUCE GILLEY | APRIL 25, 2006

Why China Won't Slow Down

BY ALBERT KEIDEL | APRIL 25, 2006