History

Channeling Ike

The national security memo that Eisenhower would write Hagel.

BY MICHAEL J. MAZARR | JANUARY 10, 2013

Civil Savant

How Andrew Marshall has shaped our world.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | JANUARY 7, 2013

Chuck Hagel's Biggest Task

Obama's new defense secretary will first and foremost need to get the Asia pivot right.

BY JAMES HOLMES | JANUARY 7, 2013

Bench Press

It doesn't matter that Chuck Hagel is a Republican -- or even a defense expert.

BY LAWRENCE J. KORB | JANUARY 7, 2013

Eve of Disaster

Why 2013 eerily looks like the world of 1913, on the cusp of the Great War.

BY CHARLES EMMERSON | JANUARY 4, 2013

Gorging on Investment, Choking on Red Tape

Academic economists usually air their new ideas first in working papers. Here, before the work gets dusty, a quick look at transition policy research in progress.

BY PETER PASSELL | JANUARY 4, 2013

The Songs of Angry Men

Can Les Misérables help us understand why some revolutions succeed and others barely get off the ground?

BY ERIN M. SIMPSON | JANUARY 3, 2013

Let Them Eat Grass

What do Weibots think about China's Great Famine?

BY MURONG XUECUN | JANUARY 2, 2013

We're All Declinist Pundits These Days; Recession-Proof

FP's "Who Won the Great Recession?" package elicits reflections on U.S.-China power dynamics and how to succeed in business during hard times.

JANUARY 2, 2013

The Midlife Crisis of Bangladesh

Bangladeshis want a reckoning with their bloody past. But they can do it without partisanship?

BY JOSEPH ALLCHIN | DECEMBER 21, 2012

Hope Against Hope

A look back at what I've gotten wrong, and why I'm (mostly) not sorry.

BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 21, 2012

My Dinner with Jalal

Remembering better times with Iraq's stricken president.

BY PETER BOUCKAERT | DECEMBER 18, 2012

The Dictator's Daughter

The heir of a controversial South Korean autocrat is now the country's first female president. Can she emerge from his shadow?

BY GEOFFREY CAIN | DECEMBER 18, 2012

Fiscal Cliff: A Short History

How did the phrase become shorthand for Washington's embrace of budget brinkmanship?

BY URI FRIEDMAN | DECEMBER 18, 2012

Nudging the President

Splitting the difference is no way to win a war.

BY MICAH ZENKO | DECEMBER 18, 2012

Shield of the West

If it weren't for Poland, we'd all be speaking Mongolian right now.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | DECEMBER 17, 2012

Ripe for Rivalry

Has Asia's moment of reckoning finally arrived?

BY VICTOR D. CHA | DECEMBER 12, 2012

The U.S. Plan to Nuke Everyone

Why LBJ vetoed the Dr. Strangelove option.

BY WILLIAM BURR | DECEMBER 11, 2012

The Land of Topless Minarets and Headless Little Girls

A requiem for Syria.

BY AMAL HANANO | DECEMBER 11, 2012

The Anti-Godfather

How a mayor set out to save a Sicilian city from neglect and Mafia influence.

BY LAURA BACON, RUSHDA MAJEED | DECEMBER 10, 2012

We Were Pirates, Too

Why America was the China of the 19th century. 

BY CHARLES R. MORRIS | DECEMBER 5, 2012

China's Copycat Cities

The People's Republic is building life-size European villages, but not for the reasons you think.

BY JACK CARLSON | NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Killer Swarms

It wasn't the Russian winter that stopped Napoleon.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Four More Years … in Exile

Can Republicans find their way out of the foreign-policy wilderness?

BY JOHN NORRIS | NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The Cult of Massoud

How Afghanistan’s Che Guevara still haunts Hamid Karzai.

BY JAMES VERINI | NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Turkey for the Troops

Sixty years of Thanksgivings for American soldiers abroad.

BY KEVIN BARON, J. DANA STUSTER | NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Mongol Hordes Take Manhattan

Before there was Red Dawn, there was Red Napoleon.

BY J.M. BERGER | NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Israel 2012 vs. London 1944

What the buzz bomb can tell us about Iron Dome.

BY MICHAEL PECK | NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Rockets' Red Glare

No, Iron Dome does not prove that "Star Wars" was right.

BY YOUSAF BUTT | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

The Kissinger Transcripts

Why the former secretary of state thought the CIA was blackmailing him.

BY TOM BLANTON | NOVEMBER 14, 2012