Foreign Policy Magazine

An FP Special Report:The Future Is Now

What will the world look like in 2025? Much like today, only faster, driven by more complex diplomacy, high-risk economic density, a whole new kind of destructive proliferation -- and robot chauffeurs.

Technology Will Take on a Life of Its Own

By AYESHA AND PARAG KHANNA

Micromultinationals Will Run the World

By HAL VARIAN

Everything Will Be Too Big to Fail

By JOHN SEO

The South China Sea Is the Future of Conflict

By ROBERT D. KAPLAN

Get Ready for the Democratization of Destruction

By ANDREW KREPINEVICH

The Shape of the Global Economy Will Fundamentally Change

By MOHAMED EL-ERIAN

The Americas, Not the Middle East, Will be the World Capital of Energy

By AMY MYERS JAFFE

The World Will Be More Crowded -- With Old People

By PHILLIP LONGMAN

Problems Will Be Global -- and Solutions Will Be, Too

By ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

The List: Megatrends That Weren't

By JOSHUA E. KEATING

The FP Survey: The Internet

We asked the world's leading experts about the future of the thing that's shaping it the most.

MadLibs.com

The world's leading technology thinkers fill in the blanks.

Think Again: War

World peace could be closer than you think.

BY JOSHUA S. GOLDSTEIN

Why Is It So Hard to Find a Suicide Bomber These Days?

A decade after 9/11, the mystery is not why so many Muslims turn to terror but why so few have joined al Qaeda's jihad.

BY CHARLES KURZMAN

Opening Gambit: Millions May Die…Or Not

BY DAVID RIEFF

Epiphanies from Bob Woodward

The List: Huge in Asia

BY DUSTIN ROASA

Ideas: Dangerous Aid

BY JOSHUA KEATING

Ideas: Rich Country, Poor Country

BY JOSHUA KEATING

The Things They Carried: Carl Bildt

The Lap of Luxembourgery

BY ERIC PAPE

Dear Uncle Sam...

Why do India and Pakistan see America in such opposite ways?

BY PANKAJ MISHRA

America the Brutiful

Yanks are starring on foreign screens -- and it ain't a pretty sight.

BY MICHAEL IDOV

900 Channels of the Great Satan

In Iran's latest TV obsession, the Ugly American is -- themselves.

BY AZADEH MOAVENI

Moral Revolutions

The pursuit of truth and goodness is more complicated than it seems -- especially in Russia.

Going for Gorby

The not-so-lame afterlife of the Soviet Union's last leader.

Joseph Nye's Soft Power

The top 10 reasons why Joe Nye's books keep landing on the recommended reading list for U.S. presidents.

Gangster's Paradise

Pakistan Demands a Recount

The country is developing, not failing.