Politics
From Winterfell to King's Landing
How the cartography of Game of Thrones explains the world.
BY FRANK JACOBS | MAY 10, 2013
It's Morning in Islamabad
Yes, it’s broke, violent, and tumultuous. But here are five reasons Pakistan is better off than you think.
BY MOSHARRAF ZAIDI | MAY 10, 2013
Oh, You Silly Man
How John Kerry got rolled by Vladimir Putin on a plan to save Syria.
BY MICHAEL WEISS | MAY 9, 2013
A Turbulent Valley in a Turbulent Decade
A Review of Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia by Philip Shishkin.
BY JOSHUA FOUST | MAY 9, 2013
No More Doing Business As Usual
Why World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is right to subject the Bank’s global business report to fresh scrutiny.
BY CHRISTINA CHANG | MAY 9, 2013
The Case for Nuclear Unilateralism
New START may be flawed, but it also holds an opportunity for Obama to do something truly momentous.
BY YOUSAF BUTT | MAY 8, 2013
Swampland
One year later, Russia’s diminished opposition returns to Bolotnaya Square.
BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | MAY 8, 2013
Outsourcing Lethality
When there's a foreign finger on the trigger, is Washington still accountable when innocents die?
BY MICAH ZENKO | MAY 7, 2013
Who Are We Again?
Have Republicans totally forgotten what the 'national interest' means?
BY DANIELLE PLETKA | MAY 7, 2013
It's Time for Burma's President to Act
The civil war in Burma goes on. But the government seems powerless to stop it.
BY DAVID SCOTT MATHIESON | MAY 7, 2013
Four Arab Democrats and a Constitutional Scholar Walk Into a Bar
Some free advice for my MENA friends.
BY DANIEL LANSBERG-RODRIGUEZ | MAY 6, 2013
High Stakes and the Sequester Squeeze
When defense budgets get tight, politics can get a little complicated.
BY GORDON ADAMS | MAY 6, 2013
Outfoxing the Oligarchs in Latvia
How a tiny Baltic republic succeeded in taking its oligarchs down a peg.
BY GABRIEL KURIS | MAY 6, 2013
The Most Dangerous Border in the World
Why is China picking a fight with India?
BY ELY RATNER, ALEXANDER SULLIVAN | MAY 4, 2013
Beirut's Bastille
The free-for-all inside Lebanon's most notorious prison.
BY SULOME ANDERSON | MAY 2, 2013
The Rise of Germany's Tea Party
Could a brand-new, anti-euro political movement threaten Merkel's quest for a third term?
BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | MAY 2, 2013
Tea Leaves in Tashkent
Who will follow Uzbekistan’s aging dictator?
BY PHILIP SHISHKIN | MAY 2, 2013
Our Shared Islamist Enemy
From Boston to Israel, radicals are attempting to destroy Western culture.
BY YAIR SHAMIR | MAY 1, 2013
In Search of Reinhold Niebuhr
America could use a little philosophical humility right now.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MAY 1, 2013
Hawking Something
The Syria interventionists want us to go to war. They're wrong.
BY MICAH ZENKO | APRIL 30, 2013
Ghostbusters
Malaysia’s pro-democracy activists might not win Sunday’s election. But they could win the battle against electoral fraud.
BY DEBORAH LOH | APRIL 30, 2013
Xi's War Drums
China's new leader is using the military to consolidate his power. But has he unleashed forces beyond his control?
BY JOHN GARNAUT | MAY/JUNE 2013
In Defense of Leading from Behind
So what if it's a terrible slogan? It's still the right strategy.
BY LESLIE H. GELB | MAY/JUNE 2013
Why the Sheikhs Will Fall
The Gulf monarchies were once thought immune to the uprisings sweeping the Arab world. Not anymore.
BY CHRISTOPHER M. DAVIDSON | APRIL 26, 2013
The indispensable nation's indispensable weapon
BY JAMES TRAUB
Why Obama hasn't exactly won the war on homegrown terrorism
BY JANE HARMAN
Did Turkey just become a little more like Texas?
BY MARYA HANNUN
Was the killing of a British soldier in London actually an act of terrorism?
BY H.A. HELLYER
WikiLeaks hits back at documentary with 'annotated transcript'
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Mystery solved: John Kerry really ate turkey shwarma
BY MARYA HANNUN
May/June 2013
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