Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong
And why it matters today in a new age of revolution.
BY LEON ARON
For the first time, Boris Yeltsin's right-hand man tells the inside story of the coup that killed glasnost -- and changed the world.
BY GENNADY BURBULIS with MICHELE A. BERDY
The Long, Lame Afterlife of Mikhail Gorbachev
A cautionary tale about what happens when you fail to see the revolution coming.
BY ANNE APPLEBAUM
The 7th Annual Failed States Index
The World in Misery, 2011
Somalia, once again, tops the list, with Chad and Sudan not far behind.
Photo Essay: Postcards from Hell, 2011
Images from the world's most failed states
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
On 9/11, the West woke up to the threat posed by failed states. But did we actually understand it?
BY JAMES TRAUB
Failed states are mainly a threat to their own inhabitants. We should help them anyway.
BY STEWART PATRICK
Opening Gambit: The Revolution Will Be Tweeted
Life in the vanguard of the new Twitter proletariat.
BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL
A Guide to the Foreign-Policy Twitterati
Missing out on the Twitter Revolution? Here's a cheat sheet to get you started.
Ideas: Divide and Conquer, and An Unfair Deal
Anthropology of an Idea: Track II Diplomacy
BY CHARLES HOMANS
Why is Delhi building a new Berlin Wall to keep out its Bangladeshi neighbors?
BY SCOTT CARNEY, JASON MIKLIAN, AND KRISTIAN HOELSCHER
How'd We Do Covering the Revolution?
Looking back with a generous dose of humility.
BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN
The Economy: The Great Rebalancing
With the world finally inching out of recession, the rules of global markets are being rewritten. We asked 55 of the world’s top economists to tell us what to think.
On the Economy, Be Careful What You Wish For
BY IAN BREMMER
FP Mad Libs: The Bulls and Bears Edition
Confused about our economic future? These economists fill in the blanks.
The new geopolitics of agriculture aren't new.
Cut the development NGOs some slack.
Is Israel Really America's Ally?
Maybe it's time for them to see other people.
Has Medellín's resurgence been oversold?
South Africans aren’t the only ones who won't talk about AIDS.
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
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