The List

Supercitizens and Semistates

The global elites that really run the world.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MARCH/APRIL 2012

The Things They Carried:
The Israeli Settler

A peek inside the bag Knesset member Michael Ben-Ari schleps to work each day in Jerusalem.

INTERVIEW BY OREN KESSLER | MARCH/APRIL 2012

The Most Controversial Israeli Settlements

A tour of the region's most contested residences.

BY OREN KESSLER | FEBRUARY 27, 2012

More Than BRICS in the Wall

What do all those acronyms stand for?

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MARCH/APRIL 2012

The New Asian Tiger?

Ten things you didn't know about Vietnam's rise. 

BY MARCO BREU, RICHARD DOBBS | FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Celluloid Superpowers

The world's biggest film producers and how they've fared on Oscar night.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Where Have All the George Washingtons Gone?

Five reasons why America doesn’t have great presidents anymore.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Red Roses, Black Market

Five places that aren't feeling the love this Valentine's Day.

BY ALESSANDRA N. RAM | FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Iran Man

Rick Santorum says he's been studying Iran for a decade. But does he know what he's talking about?

BY URI FRIEDMAN | FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The Fallen

The 12 European leaders taken down by the financial crisis.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The Cairo 19

A look at some of the NGO workers who now find themselves at the center of a diplomatic showdown between Egypt and the United States.

BY URI FRIEDMAN | FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Dissidents to Watch in 2012

Five notable Chinese activists who are pushing the boundaries of dissent ... and on whom China is pushing back.

BY ISAAC STONE FISH | FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Social Networks in Exile

The $100 billion Facebook juggernaut is going public. But remember Friendster and LiveJournal? They never died. They just fled overseas.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The Harvard of Hong Kong, and 8 Other Great International Schools

Didn’t get into the college of your dreams? Don’t want to bankrupt your parents? Here’s where to go.

BY LOIS PARSHLEY | JANUARY 31, 2012

Internationally Supercharged

The U.N. has a long history of comic heroes and villians.

BY KEDAR PAVGI | JANUARY 26, 2012

The Complete Obama

A pre-State of the Union guide to Barack Obama's favorite foreign-policy themes -- and how they've evolved over time.

BY URI FRIEDMAN | JANUARY 24, 2012

Slipping Past the Censors

What controversial cinematic history can explain about Iran.

BY ABEL KEREVEL | JANUARY 23, 2012

The Not-So-Magic Kingdoms

Forget Disney. If Barack Obama wants to know where the world goes to play, here are five global theme parks he should visit.

BY STEFAN ZWANZGER AND ISAAC STONE FISH | JANUARY 19, 2012

Even Better Than the Real Thing

The 10 best fake Twitter feeds on global politics.

JANUARY 17, 2012

What the World Makes of Mitt

Romney's rise may be producing yawns at home, but the Republican frontrunner has touched a nerve (make that several nerves) overseas.

BY URI FRIEDMAN | JANUARY 16, 2012

The Problem Prisoners

Ten of the most controversial detainees still held at Guantánamo.

JANUARY 10, 2012

How Romney Will Attack Obama

Looking ahead to the biggest foreign-policy debates of the general election.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 10, 2012

The Ten Biggest American Intelligence Failures

BY URI FRIEDMAN | JANUARY 3, 2012

The Best-Laid Plans

What do Richard Nixon, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all have in common? The decades long dream of energy independence.

BY CHARLES HOMANS | JAN/FEB 2012

8 Geopolitically Endangered Species

Meet the weaker countries that will suffer from American decline.

BY ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI | JAN/FEB 2012

21 Books to Read in 2012

Foreign Policy picks the books that will matter in the year ahead. Get that Kindle warmed up.

BY MARGY SLATTERY | DECEMBER 30, 2011

It's Not Just Obama

Twenty elections that could change the world in 2012.

BY LOIS PARSHLEY, URI FRIEDMAN | DECEMBER 30, 2011

FP's Most Popular Articles of 2011

From congressional dysfunction to kleptocrats to cow jokes, here’s what you wanted to read in the past year.

DECEMBER 29, 2011

War Dogs, Boomtowns, and Dead Dictators

Foreign Policy’s most popular photo essays of 2011.

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Next Year's Wars

Ten conflicts to watch in 2012.

BY LOUISE ARBOUR | DECEMBER 27, 2011