Recently added articles from Foreign Policy:
Bad times, big think.(recessions)
May 01, 2009 ... Marx? Really? No, we don't actually think communism is poised for a real-world comeback anytime soon. But Marx's powerful, prescient critique of the perils of boom-and-bust capitalism certainly deserves a hearing at this time of global capitalist crisis. Dust off your Das Kapital and be ...
History.(FOREIGNPOLICY.com)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The current tension between the United States and Russia is not necessary, nor was it inevitable. As a former senator, and as someone who has invested a lot of ...
Sovereignty.(FOREIGNPOLICY.com)(Democratic Republic of the Congo )(Brief article)
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The international community needs to recognize a simple, albeit brutal fact: The Democratic Republic of the Congo does not exist. All of the peacekeeping ...
War.(FOREIGNPOLICY.com)(Iraq war)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "There are no good answers in Iraq, just less bad ones. I think staying in Iraq is immoral, but I think leaving immediately would be even more so, because of the risk it runs of leaving Iraq to a civil war that could go regional ....
Diplomacy.(FOREIGNPOLICY.com)(United States foreign policy)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "For decades after the Second World War, the great achievement of U.S. foreign policy was precisely to channel--and sometimes, to ignore--European preferences, while patiently calming the resentments that followed. In George Kennan's patronizing words, ...
Flat world hits a bump.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... Moises Naim ("Think Again: Globalization," March/April 2009) thinks my recent obituary for financially driven globalization in Current History was, much like the announcement of Mark Twain's death in 1897, premature. Twain didn't die until 1910, of course, but he certainly wasn't immortal ....
The end of evil?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... I appreciate what Niall Ferguson ("The Axis of Upheaval," March/April 2009) is trying to do, and I certainly agree with him that economic upheaval has potentially profound geopolitical ramifications and that failing states are a source of instability in international affairs. I have been ...
Mexico's state of affairs.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... Although the violence let loose by drug traffickers cannot be denied, the suggestion that Mexico is part of an "axis of upheaval," as Niall Ferguson claims, or is "wracked by a criminal-capitalist insurgency," as Sam Quinones ("State of War" March/April 2009) argues, is clearly off the ...
China's Team players.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
May 01, 2009; ... Cheng Li ("China's Team of Rivals," March/April 2009) has oversimplified reality in his analysis of China's future leadership by dividing it into two camps: the "populists" and the "elitists." In fact, there are six equally important rival factions competing for the top two positions in ...
Correction.(Letters)(Correction notice)
May 01, 2009 ... The university rankings ("Inside the Ivory Tower") in FOREIGN POLICY'S March/April issue incorrectly listed the University of Colorado, Denver, as the No. 12 ...
Dangerous leviathans.(OPENING GAMBIT)
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An assertive Russia has raised fears of a new Cold War by cracking down at home and flexing its muscles abroad. But to understand those worrisome trends, forget about Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin--certainly most Russians have. Think back ...
Amartya Sen: the Nobel Prize-winning economist reflects on misguided policies, social disasters--and whether he had it too easy.(EPIPHANIES)
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My family was from Dhaka, now the capital of Bangladesh, but I studied mostly in Santiniketan, in a school in India. My earliest memories, between the ages of 3 and 6, are all of Mandalay in Burma, where my father was a visiting professor in the 1930s. I ...
Faulty towers: with financing slowing to a trickle, the world's most hyped architectural projects remain castles in the sky.(THE LIST)
May 01, 2009; ... Rossiya Tower Moscow, Russia [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ambition: Russian oil and real estate magnate Shalva Chigirinsky and British architect Norman Foster shared a dream of erecting the tallest building in Europe. Intended as the centerpiece of a new business district, ...
The new coups: violent government takeovers now happen far less frequently--and their strongmen fall much faster.(RETHINK)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009; ... A coup d'etat can only mean that a country is going from bad to worse, right? Perhaps it's time to reexamine what happens on the morning after. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hein Goemans, a political scientist at the University of Rochester, has compiled an index of the ...
The longest shadow.(influence of slave trade in trust and community relations of citizens from Africa)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If you want to say someone is not to be trusted in Fon, a language spoken in coastal Benin and Togo, the best phrase to use translates as "This person will sell you and enjoy it." The Fen region was, tellingly, one of the historical epicenters of the ...
The ties that don't bind.(survey on family relations in developing and industrialized countries)(Survey)(Brief article)
May 01, 2009; ... In desperate moments, where does one turn for help? Poor countries are often assumed to have relatively weak government safety nets, but also strong social networks--extended families and friends who can pitch in during hard times. Yet when Gallup asked respondents in selected countries, ...
Calculating the cost of human foibles.(behavioral economics and the financial crisis)(Chronology)
May 01, 2009; ... Economists have suffered a collapse in credibility since the global financial crisis began. Faith in the efficiency of markets and the invisible hand is out; "behavioral economics," which stresses that humans are fundamentally irrational actors, is in. We are blind to risk; we make ...
The fatalist: the man reshaping how U.S. intelligence views the future.(National Intelligence Council's Mathew Burrows; 'Global Trands 2025' report)
May 01, 2009; ... It wasn't announced with any great fanfare from the White House. There was no declaration of victory or "mission accomplished" moment. Yet when future historians look back on Feb. 12, 2009, they may identity it as the day the war on terror ended. That was the day U.S ....
Are you a globalization junkie?(THE FP QUIZ)
May 01, 2009 ... Test your knowledge of global trends, economics, and politics with 8 questions about how the world works. 1 Which country is home to the company that filed the most patent applications in 2008? a) China b) Germany c) Japan 2 Which ...
The Ottoman revival: Turkish nationalism goes back to the future.(DISPATCH)
May 01, 2009; ... One clear day in February, when Ali Babacan visited Yemen, his hosts brought him to a centuries-old, mud-brick building outside Sanaa, the Yemeni capital. There, about a dozen tribal leaders were waiting for the Turkish foreign minister with curved daggers drawn. If Babacan was at first ...