Internet

Africa's Cyber WMD

Think that Russia and China pose the biggest hacking threats of our time? The virus-plagued computers in Africa could take the entire world economy offline.

BY FRANZ-STEFAN GADY | MARCH 24, 2010

The Green Movement Is More Than Facebook

Why Feb. 11 was no failure for Iran's opposition.

BY MOHAMMAD SADEGHI | MARCH 8, 2010

Life Inside Somalia’s Bunker Government

An interview with Information Minister Dahir Gelle, as told to FP's Elizabeth Dickinson.

MARCH 5, 2010

China's Hacker Army

The myth of a monolithic Chinese cyberwar is starting to be dismantled. A look inside the teeming, chaotic world that exists instead -- and that may be far more dangerous.

BY MARA HVISTENDAHL | MARCH 3, 2010

Burma's Oscar Moment

Forget Avatar, The Hurt Locker, and all the rest for a minute. Here's the story of the film that deserves to win big.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MARCH 3, 2010

Epiphanies: Paulo Coelho

One of the world's most popular novelists, Coelho has sold more than 100 million books in 150-plus countries. He spoke with FP about growing up in Brazil, the importance of artists today, and how to sell novels in Africa.

INTERVIEW BY DAVID KENNER | MARCH/APRIL 2010

The FP Quiz

Are you a globalization junkie? Then test your knowledge of global trends, economics, and politics with 8 questions about how the world works.

MARCH/APRIL 2010

Meet the Sims … and Shoot Them

The rise of militainment.

BY P.W. SINGER | MARCH/APRIL 2010

Iran, Facebook, and the Limits of Online Activism

The green movement's Internet leaders are learning the perils and pitfalls of online organizing -- the hard way.

BY CAMERON ABADI | FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Lost in #Haiti

How Haiti's disaster showed Twitter's limits as a news medium.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 22, 2010

Internet Freedom

The prepared text of U.S. of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech, delivered at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

JANUARY 21, 2010

The List, 2020 Edition

Thought leaders for the Internet era.

BY EVGENY MOROZOV | DECEMBER 2009

A Web of Lone Wolves

Fort Hood shows us that Internet jihad is not a myth.

BY EVAN KOHLMANN | NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Who's Really Running Iran's Green Movement

Here’s a hint: It's not Mousavi, Khatami, or Karroubi.

BY MEHDI KHALAJI | NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Al-Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban: “Diametrically Opposed”?

Is the jihadi uproar over an al-Qaeda-Taliban split for real?

BY VAHID BROWN | OCTOBER 22, 2009

Where Google Loses

Baidu is the dominant search engine in the world's biggest (and fastest-growing) Internet market -- China. But how did it outsmart Google? 

BY JORDAN CALINOFF | SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Strategic Communication: Getting Back to Basics

Writing in Joint Force Quarterly, Adm. Michael G. Mullen critiques the U.S. government's approach to winning hearts and minds.

BY MICHAEL G. MULLEN | AUGUST 28, 2009

Foreign Policy's Twitterati 100

Twitter enables breaking news and  ideas to travel at the speed of your fingers. Here, in no particular order, are the 100 best Twitter users in international affairs.

BY FOREIGN POLICY | AUGUST 7, 2009

India's Media Explosion

Why print journalism is flourishing in the world's largest democracy.

BY KANISHK THAROOR | JULY 20, 2009

The Long Legs of the Crash: 13 Unexpected Consequences of the Financial Crisis

Last year had more than its share of vertigo-inducing headlines: major banks suddenly disappearing, the Dow plunging day after day, and billion-dollar bailouts failing to make a dent in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

BY DANIEL W. DREZNER | MARCH 1, 2009

Attack of the Digg Clones

How the Internet's most powerful click factory went global.

BY JOSHUA KEATING | FEBRUARY 10, 2009

A Melting Pot It’s Not

How the Internet is giving nationalism a boost.

BY EVGENY MOROZOV | FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Expert Sitings: Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz is CEO and director of equity research at Fusion IQ, an online quantitative research firm. He blogs at ritholtz.com, a top-ranked financial Web site, and is a frequent television commentator.

JANUARY 5, 2009

Picture (Im)perfect

A picture may be worth a thousand words. But, as it turns out, it takes almost 100 million pictures to make a map.

BY JOSHUA KEATING | JANUARY 5, 2009

The Dark Art of Cyberwar

Are cyberattacks warfare? It’s a lot more complicated than you think.

BY ALASTAIR GEE | NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Expert Sitings: Chris Anderson

BY CHRIS ANDERSON | NOVEMBER 1, 2008

Rebels with a Server

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | OCTOBER 15, 2008

Development 2.0

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | OCTOBER 15, 2008