International Organizations

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

South Africa's Dictator Dance

South Africa was once celebrated as a champion for human rights. So why are Mandela's heirs engaging with some of the world's most dubious characters?

CAPTIONS BY SUZANNE MERKELSON | OCTOBER 4, 2011

Atomic Dogs

Why can't the world's nuclear energy watchdog do anything about Fukushima or Iran's weapons program? I went to find out.

BY KONSTANTIN KAKAES | SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Doha Is Dead

But do we really need multilateral institutions anymore to kick-start international trade?

BY LAWRENCE HERMAN, GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER | SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Bank Shot

The eurozone's banking crisis is on the verge of becoming a global economic catastrophe. But do the economic heavyweights meeting in Washington this week know what to do about it?

BY MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN | SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed

Palestine may be fragmented. But let's remember whose fault that is.

BY MOUIN RABBANI | SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Humpty Dumpty Palestine

Even if the United Nations grants Palestine statehood this September, it's far from looking -- or acting -- like a real, functioning state.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Train Wreck in Turtle Bay

Palestinian leaders are headed for a dangerous confrontation at the U.N. that will only leave everyone worse off. Can anyone stop this runaway train?

BY ZIAD J. ASALI | SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

The Icarus Zone

Never before has a monetary union been so full of anticipation and hype. Should we have known that the euro would buckle?

BY DAVID MARSH | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

An Exorbitant Burden

Why keeping the dollar as the world's reserve currency is a massive drag on the struggling U.S. economy.

BY MICHAEL PETTIS | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Buck Stays Here

Why the dollar isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

BY DANIEL W. DREZNER | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Dreaming of SDRs

Why the IMF's long dreamed-of Special Drawing Rights will always be the currency of the future.

BY DAVID BOSCO | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Multilateral Vacuum

If Washington can't get the Chinese to revalue their currency, can international institutions be of any help?

BY PHIL LEVY | SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Humanitarian Inquisition

Does success in Libya prove that the "responsibility to protect" works, or has it opened a Pandora's box of shaky precedent?

BY DAVID BOSCO | SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Don't Call It a Comeback

Four reasons why Libya doesn't equal success for NATO.

BY KURT VOLKER | AUGUST 23, 2011

Come Together

Leaders struggling to fix a world spiraling out of control are turning to international institutions. Are they up to the task?

BY DAVID BOSCO | AUGUST 18, 2011

The Black Hawk Down Effect

We all know what went wrong the last time the international community tried to end a crisis in Somalia. But we've forgotten what went right.

BY JOHN L. HIRSCH | AUGUST 12, 2011

The Post-Fukushima Arms Race?

The ironic consequence of Japan's disaster might be a more dangerous global nuclear landscape.

BY HENRY SOKOLSKI | JULY 29, 2011

Famine Is a Crime

Civilization has defeated mass starvation. So why are so many Somalis dying of hunger?

BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 25, 2011

A Continent, Sinking

Europe's financial crisis is a Titanic moment, threatening to bring down not only the EU's major economies, but its political raison d'être. Is it too late to save the ship?

BY STEVEN ERLANGER | JULY 20, 2011

Cambodia's Kangaroo Court

Why isn't the U.N. tribunal to prosecute genocidal Khmer Rouge war criminals going after more bad guys?

BY MIKE ECKEL | JULY 20, 2011

A Just War, and an Unfinished One

Recognizing Libya's rebels was the right move by the United States and its allies -- but it's not the only one they have to make.

BY JAMES TRAUB | JULY 15, 2011

Bashir's Choice

The brutal means that the Sudanese president has used to keep his country together have instead blown it apart in the most chaotic way possible.

BY JAMES TRAUB | JULY 8, 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

Justice League

The case for calling off the Tomahawks and bringing Muammar al-Qaddafi to The Hague.

BY DAVID SCHEFFER | JUNE 29, 2011

This Week at War: Moral Hazard at NATO

Europe may not be able to rely on America's free security guarantee forever.

BY ROBERT HADDICK | JUNE 17, 2011

Why Would Someone Hack the IMF?

To see how the sausage is made.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JUNE 14, 2011

Warsaw on the Nile

How do you get the new Arab democracies' economies in order? Look to Eastern Europe.

BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 3, 2011

Swimming Upstream

Meet Christine Lagarde, Europe's consensus choice to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn as chief of the IMF.

BY ERIC PAPE | JUNE 1, 2011

No Safe Haven?

The long saga that led to Ratko Mladic's arrest shows that international pressure does work. It just takes time.

BY KENNETH ROTH | MAY 26, 2011