United Nations
Two Plus Two Equals Five
What numbers can we trust? A second look at the death toll from some of the world's worst disasters.
BY PHILIP WALKER | AUGUST 17, 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 Palestinians' Imaginary State
A majority of the world's countries are gearing up to recognize a Palestinian state in September. But does Palestine really qualify?
BY STEVEN J. ROSEN | AUGUST 3, 2011
Interview: Rajiv Shah
The USAID administrator on the epic food crisis in the Horn of Africa, dealing with al Shabab, and why Somalia's famine is going to get worse before it gets better.
INTERVIEW BY ROBERT ZELIGER | JULY 28, 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
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
Cambodia's Moment of Truth
Thirty-two years after the fall of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, Cambodia finally confronts its horrific past.
BY PHILIP WALKER | JULY 20, 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
From Khartoum to Juba
Images of Sudan and its people on the eve of the country's division.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY TIM MCKULKA | 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
The Least Wanted Most Wanted Man
The inside story of how the United States and NATO let war criminal Ratko Mladic evade justice for 16 years -- and why it matters.
BY DAVID SCHEFFER | JUNE 2, 2011
The Virtues of Folding
President Obama has a bad hand in the poker game of Middle East peace. But bluffing or raising the stakes won't improve it.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MAY 30, 2011
No Need for Speed
Save your money, United Nations -- the developing world doesn't need broadband Internet to get ahead.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY 16, 2011
The LWOT: NYPD arrests two in plot against synagogue; U.S. finds bin Laden "diary"
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BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | MAY 13, 2011
The Myth of 9 Billion
Why ignoring family planning overseas was the worst foreign-policy mistake of the century.
BY MALCOLM POTTS, MARTHA CAMPBELL | MAY 9, 2011
Freedom From Fear
Now that he's accomplished the central aim of George W. Bush's foreign policy, Barack Obama can finally get started on his own.
BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY 5, 2011
Can the World Feed 10 Billion People?
With an exploding global population -- and Africa's numbers set to triple -- the world's experts are falling over themselves arguing how to feed the masses. Why do they have it so wrong?
BY RAJ PATEL | MAY 4, 2011
What the World Got Wrong in Côte D'Ivoire
Why is the United Nations entrenching former colonial powers on our continent? Africans can and should take the lead in resolving their own disputes.
BY THABO MBEKI | APRIL 29, 2011
How Not to Declare a War
The Obama administration's legal rationale for bombing Libya suggests that while George W. Bush may be gone, the imperial presidency isn't.
BY SCOTT HORTON | APRIL 11, 2011
Nightmare in Abidjan
With the arrest of Laurent Gbagbo, the standoff in the Ivory Coast may be finished, but the state of crisis is far from over.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | APRIL 7, 2011
Voted Out
As revolution sweeps the Middle East, how long can international institutions resist the tide of democracy?
BY DAVID BOSCO | APRIL 4, 2011
Massacre in Mazar
The murdered U.N. workers are the latest trauma for a city that's seen centuries of horrific killings.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | APRIL 1, 2011
A Moral Adventure
Is Barack Obama as much of a foreign-policy realist as he thinks he is?
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 31, 2011
The Case for Intervention in the Ivory Coast
As Libya steals the spotlight, another crisis threatens the lives of countless thousands of civilians.
BY CORINNE DUFKA | MARCH 25, 2011
The Eye of the Storm
With the rebels in the Libyan opposition stronghold of Benghazi, awaiting Muammar al-Qaddafi's next move.
BY PATRICK GRAHAM | MARCH 25, 2011
The Qaddafi I Know
The Libyan leader was no saint. But the West was wrong to intervene in African affairs.
BY YOWERI MUSEVENI | MARCH 24, 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
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
Somali Militants Live-Tweet Their Deadly Attack on U.N. Compound
BY COLUM LYNCH
Navy Responds to Cap'n Crunch Scandal
BY MICHAEL PECK
Obama's Fishy Explanation for Calling Britain's Finance Minister the Wrong Name
BY ALICIA P.Q. WITTMEYER
Assange Struggles to Remain Relevant in Snowden Affair
BY ELIAS GROLL
The Flesh-Eating Parasite That's Sweeping Across Syria
BY ERIN BANCO
Chinese Cyberspies Use PRISM (and Petraeus) As Bait
BY JOHN REED
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