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The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers

They had the big ideas that shaped our world in 2010.

The 10 Stories You Missed in 2010

Ten events and trends that were overlooked this year, but may be leading the headlines in 2011.

By Joshua E. Keating

The FP Survey
The Wisdom of the Smart Crowd

We've polled the FP 100 to offer you the wisdom of the smart crowd on everything from what's ahead in 2011 to what they're reading now. Here, the breakdown of who's who on our list.

Take the Survey

Now it's your turn. Take the same questionnaire we sent to our FP 100 and see how your answers match up against theirs. Plus, Global Thinker Mad Libs.

Global Thinkers Reading Club

The books that made them think in 2010.

How's That New World Order Working Out?

The multipolar moment has arrived -- and it's nothing like Americans imagined.

By Parag Khanna

The Soft-Power Power

FP's Susan Glasser sits down with Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim.

Mr. 'Zero Problems'

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu talks with FP's Blake Hounshell.

Good Ideas For Bad Times

A look at the innovative thinkers and bold ideas that kept 2010 from being a total wash.

By Charles Kenny

We Can't Say They Didn't Warn Us

A guide to who's still standing in the post-crash marketplace of ideas.

By Chrystia Freeland

The Four Hoursemen of the Teapocalypse

Meet the dead thinkers who defined 2010.

By Brad DeLong

The Fourth Wave

Can the world avoid a fresh crisis?

By Ian Bremmer

Why I'm Building Palestine

Soon, the only obstacle in our way will be the occupation itself.

By Salam Fayyad

Global Heroes

How the Cold War's wise men went anti-nuclear.

By David E. Hoffman

5 Lessons From Haiti's Disaster

What the earthquake taught us about foreign aid.

By Paul Farmer

The End of the 'Peaceful Rise'?

Even China's elites don't know where it's headed.

By Elizabeth Economy

The African Miracle

How the world's charity case became its best investment opportunity.

By Norbert Dörr, Susan Lund, Charles Roxburgh