Foreign Policy Magazine

The America Issue

America's Pacific Century

The future of geopolitics will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States should be right at the center of the action.

BY HILLARY CLINTON

An FP Debate: Just How Special Is America Anyway?

American exceptionalism is a myth.

BY STEPHEN M. WALT

We really were that great (but that doesn’t mean we are now).

BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN AND MICHAEL MANDELBAUM

The Elephants in the Room

Barack Obama’s Republican challengers haven't thought very deeply about foreign policy. It shows.

BY JAMES TRAUB

PLUS: The FP Survey: Is there a GOP foreign policy?

What Ails America?

We went around the world to ask about the problems of the one global superpower.

Imperial Hubris

BY IAN BURUMA

The Presidency

BY SUNIL KHILNANI

Gluttony

BY VACLAV SMIL

The Fed

BY HELEEN MEES

The Dollar

BY FAN GANG

Education

BY MISHAAL AL GERGAWI

America at Dusk

FP asked a distinguished international panel to tell us what the United States is doing wrong. We got an earful.

Think Again: Nuclear Power

Japan melted down, but that doesn’t mean the end of the atomic age.

BY CHARLES D. FERGUSON

The List: Checkbook Diplomacy

BY PETER VAN BUREN

The Things They Carried: The Afghan Policewoman

Ideas: Money Market

BY JOSHUA KEATING

Ideas: Strange Trade

BY JOSHUA KEATING

Epiphanies from Nandan Nilekani

The Optimist: Haiti Doesn't Need Your Old T-Shirt

BY CHARLES KENNY

“Responsibility to Protect”: A Short History

BY CHARLES HOMANS

Country for Old Men

BY YOANI SÁNCHEZ

Written on the Wall

A special photo essay, with captions by Roger Gastman.

Revolution in a Can

Graffiti is as American as apple pie, but much easier to export.

BY BLAKE GOPNIK

Conflict Graffiti

The art of war.

BY PAUL SALOPEK

The Numbers Game

Accusations of casualty count inflation are unfair.

Love and Robots

Relationships with robots might be even more complicated than Ayesha and Parag Khanna assume.

Sea Change

Can the United States afford a naval confrontation with China?

Duchy of Hazard

Luxembourg's national financial center is not amused by Eric Pape's tongue-in-cheek take on the country.

The Jihad Deficit

Are we underestimating the threat al Qaeda will pose in the coming decade?

Waiting for the Revolutions

Don't blame the experts who didn't see the Arab Spring coming.