Recently added articles from Foreign Policy:

Ideas at work.(Editorial)

May 01, 2008 ... Here at FP, we like to say we are the magazine of "global politics, economics, and ideas." Although you will find all three in every edition, this issue offers an extra heavy dose of ideas. One of the most profound--sometimes controversial--ideas of the last century that still resonates ...

Tracking terrorists.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

May 01, 2008; Gottlieb, Stuart ... According to Marc Sageman ("The Next Generation of Terror," March/April 2008), there would be little wind in the sails of the global radical Islamist movement if not for the United States' occupation of Iraq, which he argues is inflaming "homegrown wannabe" jihadists. If the United States ...

Reasons to be bullish?(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

May 01, 2008; Rosen, Daniel ... Nouriel Roubini ("The Coming Financial Pandemic," March/April 2008) offers a useful exploration of the limits of the U.S. financial crisis. Just as during the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, the China-specific version of the question "will they, or won't they?" is central today ....

Conventional war.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)

May 01, 2008; Bellinger, John B., III ... Steven R. Ramer argues that the Geneva Conventions provide bedrock principles applicable in any armed conflict and that the United States should "reaffirm ... its commitment to the conventions" ("Think Again: Geneva Conventions," March/April 2008). I fully agree with Ramer's basic point ...

Mass conversions.(IN BOX)

May 01, 2008 ... When the Economist ran God's obituary in its 1999 millennium issue, many readers surely considered it a tad premature. After all, from the ballot box to the battlefield, the almighty shows little sign of disappearing today. By 2050, 80 percent of the world is expected to belong to one of ...

Boomtowns: the housing bubble may have burst in the United States and Western Europe. But, in cities around the world, irrational exuberance in the residential market lives on.(IN BOX)(Brief article)

May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SINGAPORE 2007 price jump: +31 percent Risk factor: MODERATE A recent wave of large property redevelopments has led to a temporary shortage of housing, causing higher prices and rents. But many of these properties are now ...

Global warming? No sweat.(IN BOX)

May 01, 2008 ... Shortly after winning an Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth in 2007, Al Gore told reporters backstage at Los Angeles's Kodak Theatre that he hoped the honor would convince more people to "see the movie and learn about the climate crisis." He may want to rethink his wish. According to a recent ...

You can no longer argue ...(IN BOX)(Table)(Brief article)

May 01, 2008 ... <Pre> You Can No Longer Argue ... ... that American students are falling behind in math and science. * Number of Students Earning Top Scores In Math and Science in 2006 U.S. 118,027 JAPAN 92,558 GERMANY59,822 CANADA 28,937 FINLAND 6,795 When ...

For the first time.(IN BOX)(Brief article)

May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] China ...

Epiphanies: Richard Dawkins.(IN BOX)(Brief article)

May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [MY FAITH] didn't just drop away. I thought about it a lot and clung to it for a while. I went through a phase of disbelieving in the Jesus part of Christianity while remaining a kind of deist. The last vestige of clinging on disappeared when I was finally ...

Judge not.(In Box)

May 01, 2008 ... Crony judges appointed by friends in high places. Whistle-blowers punished for reporting corruption. Political influence bought through donations. Sound like classic corruption plaguing states on the brink? Think, instead, of countries like Canada, Spain, or Italy. Wealthy countries often ...

The FP quiz.(In Box)(Foreign Policy)

May 01, 2008 ... Are you a globalization junkie? Test your knowledge of global trends, economics, and politics with 8 questions about how the world works. 1 What percentage of the word's Web users have used the Internet to make a purchase? Go to Checkout [ILLUSTRATION ...

Israel: six decades after its founding, the Jewish state is neither as vulnerable as its supporters claim nor as callous and calculating as its critics imagine. But if it is to continue defying all expectations, Israel must first confront its own mythology.(THINK AGAIN)

May 01, 2008; Gorenberg, Gershom ... "Israel Is a Successful Democracy" Sort of. From what began as an impoverished and war-ravaged country flooded with Jewish refugees from Europe and the Arab world, Israel has grown into a regional military power with a per capita GDP that exceeds all its neighbors. Unusual among ...

Help wanted.

May 01, 2008; Coe, Neil M. ... From office cleaners to high-tech analysts, temporary workers have become a permanent fixture of the way the world works. Today, the global temp market is dominated by a few staffing firms operating in dozens of countries and generating billions of dollars. Global Temps Rising ...

When China met Africa.

May 01, 2008; Michel, Serge ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It seemed a perfect match: A growing country looking for markets and influence meets a continent with plenty of resources but few investors. Now that China has moved in, though, its African partners are beginning to resent their aggressive new patron. What ...

What Russia wants: from Gorbachev to Yeltsin to Putin, every new Russian president has drastically altered his county's relationship with the world. How will President Dmitry Medvedev change it again? Here are the clues that reveal what the Kremlin is thinking, and, more importantly, what it really wants.(Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin)

May 01, 2008; Krastev, Ivan ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This much we know: In the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has transformed itself from a one-party state into a one-pipeline state--a semiauthoritarian regime in democratic clothing. At the same time, Russia has grown increasingly ...

The architecture of autocracy: the skylines of unfree societies used to bring to mind images of endless gray Soviet apartment blocks. But today, some of the world's most innovative and daring designs are breaking ground in the least free nations. Why are the world's best architects taking their most ambitious plans to modern--day autocrats? Two words: Blank slates.

May 01, 2008; Lacayo, Richard ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Daniel Libeskind is one of the world's best-known architects, designer of Berlin's Jewish Museum, the Denver Art Museum's very forward-looking new addition, and the early master plan for the World Trade Center site. He works everywhere--or almost ...

The top 100 public intellectuals.

May 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] They are some of the world's most introspective philosophers and rabblerousing clerics. A few write searing works of fiction and uncover the mysteries of the human mind. Others are at the forefront of modern finance, politics, and human rights. In the ...

The plight of the public intellectual: just what does it mean to be a leading intellectual? One of our honorees weighs in on the burdens and pleasures of making a living by ideas.

May 01, 2008; Hitchens, Christopher ... Has anyone ever described themselves as an "intellectual," or given it as the answer to the frequently asked question, "And what do you do?" The very term "public intellectual" sometimes affects me rather like the expression "organic food." After all, there can't be any inorganic ...

The incredible shrinking missile threat: the United States is in the midst of one of the largest military buildups in history. And it is against a threat that is disappearing--fast.(ARGUMENT)

May 01, 2008; Cirincione, Joseph ... If President George W. Bush's budget requests are met, the United States will spend more this year than it ever has on antiballistic missile defense--some $12 billion, or nearly three times what the United States spent on antimissile systems during any year of the Cold War. The United ...