
The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers
They had the big ideas that shaped our world in 2011.
The wisdom of the smart crowd.
BY EMAN AL NAFJAN
The Big Think Behind the Arab Spring
BY MARC LYNCH
Bill and Melinda Gates on some unexpected new sources of aid -- and what they've learned from trying to save the world.
BY CHARLES KENNY
Does Facebook Have a Foreign Policy?
BY DAVID KIRKPATRICK
BY EDWARD GLAESER AND SASKIA SASSEN
BY STEVEN PINKER
John Stuart Mill, Dead Thinker of the Year
BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN
6 Ideas for the Ash Heap of History
BY TYLER COWEN
Global Thinkers, Fill in the Blanks
The world's smartest people tell us what to think about Barack Obama, the Arab Spring, and the dizzying events of 2011.
The Stories You Missed in 2011
India’s Military Buildup / ‘New Europe’ Falls Out of Love With the Euro / Mexico’s Drug War Moves South / Peak Camel? / The U.S. Immigration Crackdown / Pakistan’s Other War / Piracy Goes Global / Asia’s New DMZ / The War on Nukes Stalls / Rwanda’s Wrong Turn
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?

BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer

BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea

BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun

BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON