Freedom

Censorship Without Borders

China's campaign of intimidation in the run-up to the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo is just the tip of the iceberg. The regime's crackdown on freedom of speech is spreading to other countries as well.

BY ARCH PUDDINGTON, CHRISTOPHER WALKER | DECEMBER 10, 2010

The Historical Blindness of Turkey's Detractors

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not destroying the country's democracy -- he's building it up after an era of military repression that was far worse.

BY ALIZA MARCUS | NOVEMBER 24, 2010

A Tale of Two Parties

The incredible story of how Egypt's entrenched regime will stop at nothing to stifle the birth of a liberal opposition movement.

BY ERIC TRAGER | NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Not Your Father's Cuba

What Marco Rubio and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen don't get about the new generation of Cuban-Americans.

BY ARTURO LOPEZ-LEVY | NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Greed is Good…for Burma

In snatching up the country's wealth for themselves, the ruling junta's rapacious generals may actually be opening the door for democracy. And, ironically, China may be the reformers' greatest ally.

BY WEN LIAO | NOVEMBER 5, 2010

The Independence Brigade

Southern Sudan prepares for statehood…or war.

PHOTOS BY PETE MULLER, CAPTIONS BY MAGGIE FICK | OCTOBER 29, 2010

Killing the Messenger

Arundhati Roy was right to call India's presence in Kashmir a military occupation -- and throwing writers in jail won't solve the problem.

BY ANUJ CHOPRA | OCTOBER 28, 2010

Telling Secrets

WikiLeaks isn't the problem. It's reams of unnecessarily classified documents that remain hidden from the public eye by overzealous intelligence officials. And the Obama administration's fixes don't go far enough.

BY STEVEN AFTERGOOD | OCTOBER 18, 2010

The World's Jon Stewarts

The Daily Show star has it easy. An FP List of the world's most influential political satirists shows that in dangerous places, telling jokes can be hazardous to your health.

BY MAX STRASSER | OCTOBER 18, 2010

The Russian Masterpiece You've Never Heard of

Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate has more to say about human freedom than any other Russian novel of the century. That's probably why it was locked up for so long.

BY LEON ARON | NOVEMBER 2010

Battle in Belgrade

Is Serbia Really Ready to Join the European Union?

BY JAMES KIRCHICK | OCTOBER 11, 2010

Literature and Liberty

Renowned Mexican historian and journalist Enrique Krauze on how Mario Vargas Llosa's novels revealed Latin America's soul -- and exorcised its demons.

BY ENRIQUE KRAUZE | OCTOBER 7, 2010

Latin America's Literary Conscience

The 2010 Nobel laureate in literature is a political force in his own right: a champion of freedom, a fierce critic of strongmen, and clarion of democracy. Mario Vargas Llosa is not one to hold back. Here he is, in his own words.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | OCTOBER 7, 2010

The Prize China Didn't Want to Win

Giving Liu Xiaobo the Nobel Peace Prize was a defeat for the government in Beijing -- and a victory for human rights everywhere.

BY NICHOLAS BEQUELIN | OCTOBER 6, 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

Wallowing in Decline

Americans have gone from gloating over their global influence to bemoaning the loss of it. They were wrong then, and they're wrong now.

BY JAMES TRAUB | SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Darkness and Light

Barack Obama promised to end "the color-coded politics of fear." But we're still living in the shadows.

BY JAMES TRAUB | SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Anchor Baby Boom

The fuss over birthright citizenship has been around as long as the 14th Amendment has -- and it's not going away anytime soon.

BY SUZY KHIMM | AUGUST 9, 2010

No White Knight

How Medvedev's vaunted liberalism went up in flames.

BY JULIA IOFFE | AUGUST 6, 2010

Want to Fix Immigration? Give Noncitizens the Vote

A tiny step that could make a huge difference when it comes to immigration reform.

BY ALEXANDRA STARR | AUGUST 6, 2010

Digital Diplomacy

So what if Hillary Clinton's "21st Century Statecraft" isn’t exactly reinventing international relations for the information age? It's still a worthy endeavor.

BY SAM DUPONT | AUGUST 3, 2010

For Natasha

Russia's human rights activists are bowed but not broken.

BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | JULY 26, 2010

Why Kosovar Independence Is Good For Serbia

Thursday’s court ruling could be a blessing in disguise for the Serbs.

BY DAVID BOSCO | JULY 23, 2010

Caucasian Standoff

The bitter war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh has been on hold for 16 years. But that doesn't mean it's over.

BY THOMAS DE WAAL | JUNE 30, 2010

Saving Failed States

How the United Nations let countries fall apart -- and how it needs to adapt if it wants to put them back together. (Originally published in the Winter 1992-1993 issue of Foreign Policy.)

BY GERALD B. HELMAN, STEVEN R. RATNER | JUNE 21, 2010

Iran’s Year of Turmoil

Looking back at what we saw during the Green Movement protests -- and what we didn't see.

BY CAMERON ABADI | JUNE 10, 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

Mikey Weinstein's Crusade

Meet the man who's trying to purge evangelical Christianity from the Pentagon.

BY STEPHEN GLAIN | MAY 25, 2010

Ethiopia's Democratic Sham

A government clampdown has rendered the outcome of Sunday's parliamentary elections a foregone conclusion. Washington doesn't seem to mind that its ally, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, is assured a win.

BY NATHANIEL MYERS | MAY 21, 2010

Bangkok Burning

Images from Thailand's street war.

MAY 17, 2010