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The Price of Failure
How much has the collapse of Somalia cost the world? $55 billion -- and here's where it went.
BY JOHN NORRIS, BRONWYN BRUTON | OCTOBER 5, 2011
Cocacabana
Brazil may be rising, but in Rio's favelas, drugs, crime, and killing are a way of life. A Hipstamatic tour -- deep inside the gritty, gang-ridden streets -- where few outsiders dare to tread.
BY JARED P. MOOSSY | SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
The Baghdad Syndrome
Eight not-so-simple steps to making sure that Libya doesn't repeat Iraq's mistakes.
BY LARRY KAPLOW | AUGUST 26, 2011
Gandhi's Revenge
Is India's middle class finally fed up with its dysfunctional government?
BY SADANAND DHUME | AUGUST 22, 2011
The Dictator's Survival Guide
Seven lessons the world's remaining autocrats can learn from Qaddafi's mistakes.
BY MICAH ZENKO | AUGUST 22, 2011
Guilty Until Proven Guilty
In the cage of justice, sometimes a courtroom's verdict is long foretold.
BY PHILIP WALKER | AUGUST 3, 2011
The Trial of the Century
Look beyond the cage. The problems facing Hosni Mubarak’s trial lie elsewhere.
BY NATHAN J. BROWN | AUGUST 3, 2011
Fail, Britannia
How did the country that taught the world good governance become so corrupt?
BY CHANDRASHEKHAR KRISHNAN | JULY 28, 2011
The Arab Recession
They may be cheering for democracy, but for most countries affected by the Arab Spring the economic news will have them crying.
BY TY MCCORMICK | JULY 22, 2011
The Prince of Persia
Machiavelli’s got nothing on Iran’s Supreme Leader.
BY KARIM SADJADPOUR | JULY 21, 2011
In Defense of Hacks
Britain's press is sensationalistic, sloppy, and scandal-prone -- and America would be lucky to have one like it.
BY TOBY HARNDEN | JULY 21, 2011
Assassin Nation
After more than three decades of targeted killings, is there anyone left alive who can actually run Afghanistan?
BY EDWARD GIRARDET | JULY 18, 2011
Five Months of Waiting
What happens when a revolution stalls out?
BY SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS | JULY 15, 2011
First, They Came for the Lawyers
China's newest campaign of repression.
BY JEROME A. COHEN | JULY 12, 2011
Who Killed Ahmed Wali Karzai?
The Taliban is taking credit for assassinating the Afghan president's powerful brother. But a personal feud seems more likely.
BY MATTHIEU AIKINS | JULY 12, 2011
For the Love of Money
From whiskey to nuclear secrets, North Korea plays a remarkably entrepreneurial role in international affairs for a Communist regime.
BY SIMON HENDERSON | JULY 7, 2011
The WikiLeaks You Missed
From blatant bribery in India to Hugo Chávez’s war on Domino’s pizza, here are the highlights from the last four months of the secret State Department cables.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JULY 1, 2011
Paperwork Tigers
The developing world can do fine without more regulation, thank you very much. In fact, it can do better.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 1, 2011
The Least Free Places on Earth, 2011
20 places with nothing to celebrate this weekend.
TEXT BY FREEDOM HOUSE | JULY 1, 2011
Red Shirts and Rowdy Royals
The secret WikiLeaks cables that explain how Thailand went from paradise to political mayhem.
BY ANDREW MACGREGOR MARSHALL | JUNE 29, 2011
Legalizing Drugs Won't Stop Mexico's Brutal Cartels
Like all good multinational businesses, they've diversified.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 22, 2011
Green Shoots in the Killing Fields
Citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo believe there's hope for their war-torn country even if no one else does -- and their optimism is starting to get results.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JUNE 20, 2011
Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong
*And why it matters today in a new age of revolution.
BY LEON ARON | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Who Tried to Kill Ali Abdullah Saleh?
The hidden feud behind the revolution in Yemen.
BY SARAH PHILLIPS | JUNE 13, 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
Syria in Splinters
Even from the streets of Damascus, it's hard to tell whether Syrian President Bashar al-Assad or the country's determined opposition is winning the battle for the silent majority.
MAY 16, 2011
The Great Asian Land Grab
How a World Bank program helped displace tens of thousands of urban poor.
BY MIKE ECKEL | MAY 13, 2011
Fatal Corruption
Why India's problems are too broad for even a Jasmine Revolution to root out.
BY ANUJ CHOPRA | MAY 3, 2011
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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