Foreign Aid
Is America Training Too Many Foreign Armies?
Events in Mali show why it’s time to take a fresh look at the Pentagon’s military assistance programs.
BY JOHN NORRIS | JANUARY 28, 2013
Continental Shift
Why the Pentagon should pay less attention to Africa.
BY GORDON ADAMS | JANUARY 25, 2013
Nation-Building in the Classroom
Has President Obama given up too soon on hopes for fixing Afghanistan?
BY JAMES TRAUB | JANUARY 25, 2013
Subsidizing Starvation
How American tax dollars are keeping Arkansas rice growers fat on the farm and starving millions of Haitians.
BY MAURA R. O’CONNOR | JANUARY 11, 2013
The Greek Depression
Think Greece's failing economy has been saved from the abyss? Think again.
BY JOHN SFAKIANAKIS | JANUARY 9, 2013
Is It Over Yet?
Haunting photos of a year in the life of the war America is still fighting.
DECEMBER 27, 2012
Don't Blame Obama for Syria
What's happening in Syria is a tragedy. But John Hannah needs to recognize that the civil war was never ours to win or lose.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | DECEMBER 14, 2012
In Rebel Country
How did 1,000 skinny militiamen in rubber boots conquer a city of 1 million people in a matter of hours?
BY JAMES VERINI | NOVEMBER 27, 2012
The Best Small Ideas of 2012
In our search for dramatic solutions to poverty, we sometimes miss the small innovations that could make a big difference in reducing inequality.
BY TINA ROSENBERG | DECEMBER 2012
That Other War
The bloody conflict you didn't read about this week is in Congo, and it threatens to redraw the map of Africa.
BY ANJAN SUNDARAM | NOVEMBER 20, 2012
The Corruption Pandemic
Why corruption is set to become one of the defining political issues of the 21st century.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | NOVEMBER 8, 2012
Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up?
The Republican candidate gave us a tantalizing hint this week of what his foreign policy might actually look like -- but does he have the guts to actually do what we think he thinks?
BY JAMES TRAUB | SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
A New Model for Foreign Aid
How the Millennium Challenge Corporation is changing how America helps the world's poor.
BY DANIEL W. YOHANNES | SEPTEMBER 24, 2012
It's Time to Act in Syria
Yes, it's true: Military involvement in Syria has its risks. But the costs of non-intervention are growing by the day.
BY MARK N. KATZ | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
Failed States Index
The troubling ambiguity of FP's rankings. Plus: Finland comes in last for once.
SEPT/OCT 2012
Fiasco in the Levant
Unless the United States gets serious now about its postwar planning, Syria could spin out of control.
BY JAMES DOBBINS | AUGUST 8, 2012
Our Man in Kigali
For years, Rwanda's budding dictator, Paul Kagame, has gotten away with murder, while winning praise (and billions of dollars) from the West. But is the blind support for this strongman finally drying up?
BY ANJAN SUNDARAM | AUGUST 3, 2012
What Exactly Is 'Non-Lethal' Aid?
Anything not designed to kill. But that doesn't mean it can't be used for bloody ends.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | AUGUST 2, 2012
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Public health activists and pharmaceutical companies are finally joining forces to help developing countries get access to low-cost drugs.
BY ROGER BATE | JULY 23, 2012
Hired Gun Fight
Obama's aid chief takes on the development-industrial complex.
BY JOHN NORRIS | JULY 18, 2012
Rebuilding the Police in Kosovo
In the wake of its war with the Serbs, Kosovo faced a yawning law enforcement gap. Here's how the international community helped an embyronic country rebuild its police.
BY MORGAN GREENE, JONATHAN FRIEDMAN, RICHARD BENNET | JULY 18, 2012
Not Quite the Holy Grail
The changing global picture of foreign direct investment.
BY PETER PASSELL | JULY 13, 2012
Dereliction of Duty
A new U.N. report has highlighted Rwanda's responsibility for continuing conflict in the Congo. Washington's inaction is an outrage.
BY JEFFREY TAYLER | JULY 10, 2012
Sudan Needs a Revolution
The protest movement against Omar al-Bashir is growing -- fast -- and it needs the world’s support.
BY AMIR AHMAD NASR | JUNE 26, 2012
Debating the Failed States Index
Was this year's ranking of the world's most fragile states on target? Five countries respond.
JUNE 22, 2012
Wealth of Nations
It's time to stop calling countries like Brazil and China "developing." They're just rich.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY/AUGUST 2012
Please, Don't Send Food
A new study suggests that food aid could actually prolong conflict rather than resolve it.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JULY/AUGUST 2012
Egypt's Subsidy Blues
When Egypt's next rulers finally tackle urgently needed economic reform, they should look to an unlikely model: Iran.
BY PETER PASSELL | JUNE 15, 2012
A Failure to Communicate
Why is the Obama administration using its radio station to attack the Cuban Catholic Church?
BY FULTON T. ARMSTRONG | JUNE 1, 2012
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
May/June 2013
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