United Nations
After the Break Up
Sudan has 99 problems, but secession isn't one.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JANUARY 25, 2011
Case Closed
Lebanon's Christian community has lost faith in the court established to prosecute the killers of the country's former premier. That's good news for Hezbollah, and bad news for the United States and its allies.
BY DAVID POLLOCK | JANUARY 20, 2011
Africa's Hour
Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to give up power isn't just a crisis for the Ivory Coast -- it's a moment of truth for the whole continent.
BY JAMES TRAUB | JANUARY 7, 2011
Obama's Other War
Can Barack Obama really defeat Central Africa's worst guerrilla warlord?
BY JOE BAVIER | DECEMBER 23, 2010
Le President, C'est Moi
Ivory Coast's president is making a desperate stand to keep his job -- but will his move just mean more misery for a country that's already seen enough?
BY JOHN JAMES | DECEMBER 21, 2010
Two States, No Solutions
Barack Obama says the Israeli-Palestinian impasse is a threat to the United States' national security. But is he acting like it is?
BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 17, 2010
Fool's Gold
China's Confucius Peace Prize isn't the only bogus award out there. An FP list of the world's most laughable humanitarian honors.
BY MOHAMMAD SAGHA | DECEMBER 9, 2010
A Palestinian State Means War
Why Abbas shouldn't go unilateral.
BY JONATHAN SCHANZER | DECEMBER 9, 2010
Is the WHO Becoming Irrelevant?
Why the world's premier public health organization must change or die.
BY JACK C. CHOW | DECEMBER 8, 2010
The Land of No Good Options
The WikiLeaks cables show a U.S. diplomatic corps adept at diagnosing the big problems of American foreign policy -- and a country hopeless at solving them.
BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 3, 2010
Bringing Back Rule of Law
Louise Arbour, CEO of the International Crisis Group and Global Thinker No. 71, spoke with Foreign Policy's Susan Glasser about WikiLeaks and the future of international human rights law. Excerpts:
INTERVIEW BY SUSAN GLASSER | DECEMBER 2010
How's That New World Order Working Out?
The multipolar moment has arrived -- and it's nothing like Americans imagined.
BY PARAG KHANNA | DECEMBER 2010
Mr. 'Zero Problems'
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu sat down with Foreign
Policy's managing editor Blake Hounshell in Doha, Qatar, this fall to
discuss his side of the Iran-Brazil-Turkey triangle. Edited excerpts follow.
INTERVIEW BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | DECEMBER 2010
Delusion Points
Don't fall for the nostalgia -- George W. Bush's foreign policy really was that bad.
BY STEPHEN M. WALT | NOVEMBER 8, 2010
A New 'New Beginning'
What Barack Obama should tell the world in his Asia speech.
BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 5, 2010
New U.N. Report Reveals a Smarter, Healthier -- Yet More Unequal -- World
On the 20th anniversary of the world's most in-depth country ranking, the U.N. Human Development Index finds that global progress is largely on track. But those left behind are more numerous than ever.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | NOVEMBER 4, 2010
How Lebanon Was Lost
A former U.S. ally under Bush's Freedom Agenda, the country is now being neglected in the name of "engagement" with Syria -- and the results could be disastrous.
BY JAMES TRAUB | OCTOBER 8, 2010
The Turtle Bay Runway
The lights may have gone out at this year's U.N. General Assembly, but it's the glittering fashions -- even more than the orations -- that keep on shining.
BY COLUM LYNCH | OCTOBER 5, 2010
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
Wallowing in Decline
Americans have gone from gloating over their global influence to bemoaning the loss of it. They were wrong then, and they're wrong now.
BY JAMES TRAUB | SEPTEMBER 24, 2010
How Much Turf Does the Somali Government Really Control?
It's a bit more than just "a few square blocks." But it's bad news when insurgents control the majority of the capital.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
Corrupt Democracy
Should the Barack Obama administration keep giving aid to the corrupt government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai? Kenyan whistle-blower John Githongo tells FP why pluralism and freedom will never thrive when everyone from officials to cab drivers are skimming off the top.
INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
'We Need to Be Big-hearted and Hard-headed'
As the world convenes at the United Nations to assess the progress on the Millennium Development Goals, President Barack Obama's speech outlines the administration's new Global Development Policy, which will change "the way [America] does business" when it comes to helping developing nations build a "path out of poverty."
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
Crying Crisis
The MDGs aimed too high, and millions will still be poor and suffering in five years' time. But screaming for billions more in aid money makes light of the significant gains that have been made.
BY TODD MOSS | SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
The Save-the-World Clock
Global leaders promised a decade ago to end poverty by 2015. With just five years left, the U.N. General Assembly -- including an estimated 140 heads of state -- will meet this week to assess progress. How much good has been done? Here's a hint: not enough.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
Judgment Day for Rwanda
Paul Kagame is proving to be a pliant Western ally. But a shocking new U.N. report shows why the Rwandan president can no longer claim to be a victim -- and it's time to hold him accountable.
BY JAMES TRAUB | SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
Reactor Reaction
An Iranian nuclear reactor will start operating in a few days. But Israel probably won't be bombing it.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | AUGUST 18, 2010
The Paul Kagame I Know
Rwanda's president fought to end the country's 1994 genocide -- then used it to justify his own awful rule.
BY ROBERT KRUEGER | AUGUST 5, 2010
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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