India
The War for India's Internet
Why is the world's biggest democracy cracking down on Facebook and Google?
BY REBECCA MACKINNON | JUNE 6, 2012
The World in Photos This Week
An ex-president is convicted, England celebrates, and Angela Merkel feeds a penguin.
JUNE 1, 2012
The World in Photos This Week
France fetes a new president, Spanish activists take to the streets, and Ratko Mladic finally goes to trial.
MAY 18, 2012
The Rise of India's Soft Power
It's not just Bollywood and yoga anymore.
BY RANI D. MULLEN, SUMIT GANGULY | MAY 8, 2012
The Ravenous Dragon and the Fruits of Adversity
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 | MAY 7, 2012
Tobacco's War on Women
The global tobacco industry is targeting women in emerging markets. Can public policy rise to the challenge?
BY BRAD EDMONDSON | MAY 1, 2012
Fire in the Sky
India's missile launch isn't about China so much as it is about wounded national pride. But that doesn't mean it couldn't start an Asian arms race.
BY JASON MIKLIAN, SCOTT ROECKER | APRIL 23, 2012
Sex and the Single Mullah
Islamic scholars are prepared to answer questions and issue fatwas on almost any realm of modern life. Sometimes, it can get a little kinky.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | APRIL 23, 2012
Get an MBA, Save the World
If you want to work in international development, go work for a big, bad multinational company.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY/JUNE 2012
The World in Photos This Week
North Korea launches a dud, a fragile cease-fire holds in Syria, and Rick Santorum bows out.
APRIL 13, 2012
The Indian Mutiny That Wasn't
What's behind the strange coup rumors in Delhi?
BY SHASHANK JOSHI | APRIL 5, 2012
Lessons for America from the Global War on Sleaze
When it comes to fighting corruption, it turns out there’s a lot that the U.S. can learn from developing countries.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MARCH 20, 2012
Failure 2.0
India's big, new foreign policy idea is even worse than its last one. And that's saying something.
BY SADANAND DHUME | MARCH 16, 2012
Will the Good BRICS Please Stand Up?
You can call them respectable democracies, but India, Brazil, and South Africa will be judged by how they act abroad. And on the Syria question, it's been shameful.
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 9, 2012
The LWOT: Attorney General says U.S. can target Americans
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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | MARCH 9, 2012
The World in Photos This Week
Mr. Netanyahu goes to Washington, Vladimir Putin's tearful election, and Prince Harry wins a race.
MARCH 8, 2012
Hoping Against All Hope
Tibetans are setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule. So is there anything the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile can do about it?
BY SUDIP MAZUMDAR | MARCH 5, 2012
India’s Last-Chance Parents
Photos of an Indian fertilization clinic that's giving elderly couples another shot at having children.
FEBRUARY 10, 2012
Holey Days
Photos of piercing and prayer during the Tamil holiday of Thaipusam.
BY LOIS PARSHLEY | FEBRUARY 8, 2012
The Cult of Mayawati
Love her or hate her, India's polarizing political superstar is a force to be reckoned with.
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
The 'Untouchable'
Meet Mayawati, India's multimillionaire lower-caste power broker and politician.
BY SADANAND DHUME | FEBRUARY 6, 2012
The Battle for Bihar
Sleaze still plagues India. But one place is fighting back.
BY SUDIP MAZUMDAR | JANUARY 25, 2012
Girl Power and the Fragility Trap
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 20, 2012
The General's Luck Runs Out
Does the killing of the notorious guerrilla leader Kishenji mean the end of India's four-decade Maoist insurgency, or the beginning of its next chapter?
BY JASON MIKLIAN | NOVEMBER 30, 2011
The Stories You Missed in 2011
10 events and trends that were overlooked this year, but may be leading the headlines in 2012.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | NOVEMBER 28, 2011
Debating the Pacific Century
In the November issue of Foreign Policy, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argues that it's time for the United States to move on from its costly wars in the Middle East, and make a strategic "pivot" to Asia. FP asked four smart observers to take the measure of Clinton's plans for engagement in the Far East.
OCTOBER 14, 2011
Epiphanies from Nandan Nilekani
"Seattle has Bill," Thomas Friedman once wrote. "Bangalore has Nandan." The co-founder of Infosys -- the Indian company that made "outsourcing" a household word -- famously gave Friedman the central conceit for The World Is Flat when he said that global commerce's "playing field is being leveled" by communications technology. Now tasked with providing digital IDs to 1.2 billion Indians, Nandan Nilekani is trying to finish the job he started in the private sector: bringing a country that never entirely left the 19th century all the way into the 21st.
INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | NOVEMBER 2011
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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