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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | MARCH 22, 2011
Inside Free Benghazi
On the eve of international intervention in Libya, rebels have established a stronghold in the country's second-largest city.
MARCH 18, 2011
The Myth of the Useful Dictator
In propping up autocrats in countries like Yemen and Bahrain, the United States has long weighed its interests against its principles. Is it a false choice?
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 18, 2011
This Week at War: Quagmire Ahead
International airpower will be enough to escalate the civil war in Libya, but not to win it.
BY ROBERT HADDICK | MARCH 18, 2011
Does the World Belong in Libya's War?
Foreign Policy's crack team of international experts debate whether Washington, London, and Paris were right to step in.
MARCH 18, 2011
Libya Is Too Big to Fail
International intervention is the right move -- and not just for humanitarian reasons.
BY JASON PACK | MARCH 18, 2011
Qaddafi Under Siege
A political psychologist assesses Libya's mercurial leader.
BY JERROLD M. POST | MARCH 15, 2011
America Has Beaten Qaddafi Before
I know, because I helped supply the weapons.
BY CHARLES DUELFER | MARCH 11, 2011
Stepping In
Libya doesn't meet any of the criteria for a humanitarian intervention. We should do it anyway.
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 11, 2011
Think Again: Arab Democracy
One of the world's foremost experts on democracy building debunks the myths surrounding the Arab world's new governments -- and wonders what sort of role the West should play.
BY THOMAS CAROTHERS | MARCH 10, 2011
How Not to Intervene in Libya
Pundits and politicians are promoting all kinds of dangerous ideas for taking down Qaddafi. Here are five rules Obama should consider before plunging in blindly.
BY DIRK VANDEWALLE | MARCH 10, 2011
Arab Revolutions Through the WikiLeaks Lens
Looking back, what did we really know -- and what did we just think we knew?
BY GRAEME WOOD | MARCH 9, 2011
Still Fighting in Cairo
Egypt's revolution continues into another day.
BY MOHAMED EL DAHSHAN | MARCH 7, 2011
Understanding Libya's Michael Corleone
The international community saw Muammar's Western-educated, reform-minded son as the best hope for a freer, more democratic Libya. Did they get him wrong?
INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | MARCH 7, 2011
Harvard for Tyrants
How Muammar al-Qaddafi taught a generation of bad guys.
BY DOUGLAS FARAH | MARCH 4, 2011
Cairo 1.5
The Arab world that Barack Obama addressed in his famous speech two years ago is history. It's time for him to speak to the new one.
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 4, 2011
Roman Ruins
How Muammar al-Qaddafi hoodwinked Italy for decades.
BY MAURIZIO MOLINARI | MARCH 3, 2011
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Libya's tenure on the U.N. Human Rights Council is just the latest example of how the international system has been hijacked by the world's most repressive regimes.
BY DANIEL AYALON | MARCH 2, 2011
FP Favorites: The Stories That Mattered in February 2011
In this month's installment of FP's most popular stories of the month, the events unfolding in Egypt and the rest of the Arab world were king.
MARCH 1, 2011
The End of the Arab Dream
Muammar al-Qaddafi's fall won't just mark the close of an awful dictatorship -- it will end the Arab world's disastrous half-century-long affair with utopian governing fantasies.
BY JAMES TRAUB | FEBRUARY 25, 2011
Neocons and the Revolution
How the Arab revolt is rocking the neoconservative world.
BY JACOB HEILBRUNN | FEBRUARY 23, 2011
The Arab World's Youth Army
Meet the chronically unemployed twenty-somethings fueling social and political upheaval across the Middle East.
BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER | JANUARY 27, 2011
The Son Also Rises
On Sept. 27, Kim Jong Un was named to a lofty post in North Korea's army, presumably in preparation to succeed his father as the country's ruler. FP looks at the world's autocrats-in-training who are waiting to take over their fathers' regimes.
BY JOSHUA KEATING AND CHARLES HOMANS | SEPTEMBER 28, 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
The Worst of the Worst
Bad dude dictators and general coconut heads.
BY GEORGE B.N. AYITTEY | JULY/AUGUST 2010
Evil's Heirs
You wouldn't think it could get much worse for those living in the world's worst dictatorships. But, sadly, it just might. FP takes a look at the next generation of tyrants and finds that sometimes the devil you know really is better than the one you don't.
JULY 1, 2005
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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