Foreign Policy back issues from January 2008:
Creating value.(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Values are always in flux. Whether it's the price of a barrel of oil or the things we old dear, we are constantly taking stock. After nearly eight years of the Bush administration, the world is once again looking to size up the United States. Indeed, as Moises Naim argues in this issue's ...
Oil shock.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran's article on oil is highly problematic ("Think Again: Oil," November/December 2007). To begin with, the statement, "The world has more proven reserves of oil today than it did three decades ago, according to official estimates," clearly indicates Vaitheeswaran's ...
Iraq is not our fault.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Alasdair Roberts ("The War We Deserve," November/December 2007) draws some decidedly perverse conclusions from his observations about the paucity of public sacrifice in America's "war on terror." He suggests that the American public shares much of the responsibility for the Bush ...
Concentrating on globalization.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Pankaj Ghemawat is certainly right to draw attention to the myths surrounding globalization ("The World's Biggest Myth," November/December 2007). His interpretation of our arguments in our book, The Rule of Three, however, must be clarified. We argue that through competitive ...
The price of opposing Chavez.(IN BOX)(Hugo Chavez)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called his domestic political opponents "fascists," American "pawns," "anti-revolutionary vipers," even "horsemen of the apocalypse." In reality, the only label that accurately describes members of Venezuela's opposition today is "poorer." Voicing your ...
The cash economy.(IN BOX)(shadow economy)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Buy coffee from a street vendor this morning? Pay the teenager down the block to mow your lawn? You may not realize it, but you probably participate in the shadow economy every single day. That's the legal shadow economy--goods and services that aren't ...
Engineering jihad.(IN BOX)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Osama bin Laden studied engineering. So did lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta, 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Ramzi Yousef, the architect of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Exceptions to the rule? Hardly. Most high-profile Islamist terrorists are, in fact, highly educated ....
Epiphanies: Muhammad Yunus.(IN BOX)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2008 ... I WAS TEACHING economics at the university in Chittagong, Bangladesh, in 1974, and the theories that I was teaching didn't seem to be of much use to the extremely poor. One day, I met a woman who was making a bamboo stool in front of her dilapidated hut. She made only two pennies a day. ...
Passage to China.(In Box)(African migration)
Jan 01, 2008; ... It's no secret that China has taken a shine to Africa in recent years, showering cash on the continent in a quest for influence and natural resources. As a result, as many as 750,000 Chinese have recently moved to Africa for work. Now, a far lesser-known trend appears to be emerging: A ...
The FP quiz.(In Box)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Think you know the world? Then test your global knowledge with 8 questions that are sure to surprise. 1 After China, which country is the top source of recalled products in the United States? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] (A) Japan (B) Mexico ...
Divided over disease.(In Box)(AIDS)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2008 ... What explains why some countries aggressively fight AIDS, while others are slow to act? Conventional explanations often blame poverty or poor political leadership. But new research has identified an additional factor: ethnic divisions. The more ethnically fragmented a country, the less ...
For the first time.(In Box)(China; export)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2008 ... This year, China will overtake Germany to become the ...
Four to watch in 2008.(In Box)(Liu Xiang; Emmanuel Jal; Marion Cotillard; Jack Ma)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2008 ... They aren't household names yet, but give them a year. FP nominates four who will be big in 2008. Liu Xiang, Chinese Olympic hurdler [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] He already holds the world record in the 110-meter hurdles, and he came home from the 2004 Athens ...
Vladimir Putin.(THINK AGAIN)
Jan 01, 2008; ... He has been called a despot, a menace, and even a murderer. But Vladimir Putin's half-baked autocratic regime won't rule Russia forever. After nearly a decade in power, Putin is more isolated than ever. Will he step down, leaving behind a paralyzed political system and a bootless economy? ...
Beyond city limits.(PRIME NUMBERS)(urban developmnet; urban migration)
Jan 01, 2008; ... For the first time, half of humanity lives in cities. And during the next several decades, the world will experience the largest urban migration in history, as hundreds of millions of people flock to African and Asian boomtowns. The challenge? Keeping the modern metropolis compact, clean, ...
A world without Islam: what if Islam had never existed? To some, it's a comforting thought: no clash of civilizations, no holy wars, no terrorists. Would Christianity have taken over the world? Would the Middle East be a peaceful beacon of democracy? Would 9/11 have happened? In fact, remove Islam from the path of history, and the world ends up exactly where it is today.
Jan 01, 2008; ... Imagine, if you will, a world without Islam--admittedly an almost inconceivable state of affairs given its charged centrality in our daily news headlines. Islam seems to lie behind a broad range of international disorders: suicide attacks, car bombings, military occupations, resistance ...
Europe's philosophy of failure: in France and Germany, students are being forced to undergo a dangerous indoctrination. Taught that economic principles such as capitalism, free markets, and entrepreneurship are savage, unhealthy, and immoral, these children are raised on a diet of prejudice and bias. Rooting it out may determine whether Europe's economies prosper or continue to be left behind.
Jan 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Millions of children are being raised on prejudice and disinformation. Educated in schools that teach a skewed ideology, they are exposed to a dogma that runs counter to core beliefs shared by many other Western countries. They study from textbooks filled ...
What America must do: America's relationship with the world is in disrepair. Anger, resentment, and fear have replaced the respect the United States once enjoyed. So, we asked a group of the world's leading thinkers to answer one question, What single policy or gesture can the next president of the United States make to improve America's standing in the world?
Jan 01, 2008 ... Step on the Gas The world believes that the only thing Americans care about is cheap oil. Prove them wrong. By Kenneth Rogoff FUTURE HISTORIANS WILL ALMOST certainly regard the failure of the United States to lead in global environmental policy as an even ...
New age thinking: the aging of the world's baby boomers won't be the crisis we fear. What we consider "old" has become old-fashioned.(ARGUMENT)
Jan 01, 2008; ... There is a looming catastrophe stalking the developed world. It promises to devastate the global economy, overwhelm hospitals, and decimate armed forces. What is the calamity that promises such misfortune? Not a killer virus, deadly terrorist attack, or natural disaster. It's the aging of ...
China's currency crunch: why China needs to adopt a floating exchange rate.(ARGUMENT)
Jan 01, 2008; ... As the U.S. trade deficit continues to balloon, American politicians are back on the warpath against their favorite target: China. The rising bilateral trade deficit with Beijing, which could now top $250 billion, provides ammunition for those in Washington who argue that Chinese currency ...
Cote d'Ivoire: a nation reunited: the star of West Africa returns.(PROMOTION)
Jan 01, 2008 ... After five years of internal conflict, Cote d'Ivoire is laying the foundation to resume its place as a leader in West Africa. Using the groundbreaking Ouagadougou Political Accord as a base, Ivorians are peacefully and confidently building their future. While there remains much to be done ...
Israel's secret war.(Point of No Return: Israeli Intelligence Against Iran and Hizballah)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Nekudat Ha Al-Hazor: Hamodiyin Ha-Israeli Mul Iran Ve-Hizballah (Point of No Return: Israeli Intelligence Against Iran and Hizballah) By Ronen Bergman 607 pages, Tel Aviv: Kinneret, 2007 (in Hebrew) On Aug. 22, 1988, a senior Israeli military intelligence officer briefed the ...
The state of suspicion.(The Society of Distrust: How the French Social Model Is Destroying Itself)(Book review)
Jan 01, 2008; ... La Societe de Defiance: Comment le modele social francais s'autodetruit (The Society of Distrust: How the French Social Model Is Destroying Itself) By Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc 102 pages, Paris: Editions Rue d'Ulm, 2007 (in French) Last November, France experienced an episode ...
Books in Arabia's boomtown.(What They're Reading)(Interview)
Jan 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Once a sleepy town on the Arabian Peninsula, Dubai is now one of the fastest-growing cities in the world, with a $46 billion GDP and a population that's nearly doubled in 10 years. But amid fortune-making, horse-racing, and jet-setting, do the desert ...
The thin Chinese line.(GLOBAL NEWSSTAND: ESSAYS, ARGUMENTS, AND OPINIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD)
Jan 01, 2008; ... * Caijing, Issue 196, No. 21, October 15, 2007, Beijing Yearning for Reform." It's not exactly the type of headline you d expect to see on an opinion piece written by the editor of a Chinese publication. But that's what Hu Shuli titled the lead editorial of the October 15 issue ...
Dismal political science.(GLOBAL NEWSSTAND: ESSAYS, ARGUMENTS, AND OPINIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD)
Jan 01, 2008; ... * International Political Science Review, Vol. 28, No. 3, June 2007 One of the reasons The West Wing's Jed Bartlet appealed to television audiences was that he was not merely the president; he was also a Nobel Prize-winning economist. This fact seemed reassuring. Unlike his ...
Pirate politics.(NET EFFECT: HOW TECHNOLOGY SHAPES THE WORLD)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2008; ... In Europe, single-issue, fringe political parties are nothing new. In France, there's a party dedicated solely to restoring the country's long-defunct monarchy. In Germany, the Gray Panthers Party campaigns for pensioners. But there's something different about Sweden's Piratpartiet (Pirate ...
ICANN's name game.(NET EFFECT: HOW TECHNOLOGY SHAPES THE WORLD)(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers )(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Get ready to go native. Beginning this year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the international body that doles out Web addresses, will allow non-Latin characters in top-level domain names, the bits of a Web address found to the right of the "dot" in, for ...
Caught in the net: Tunisia's First Lady.(NET EFFECT: HOW TECHNOLOGY SHAPES THE WORLD)(Leila Ben Ali)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali isn't exactly a jet-setter. He rarely leaves Tunisia. So the country's bloggers were surprised to find that his state airplane logs as many miles as it does. They used plane-spotting Web sites such as ...
Korea's cyber vigilantes.(NET EFFECT: HOW TECHNOLOGY SHAPES THE WORLD)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Webmasters, beware. If you have a map of Northeast Asia on your site and the body of water located between Japan and the Korean Peninsula is labeled "Sea of Japan," you may soon find your e-mail inbox full of messages seeking to "correct" your geography. Groups of loosely ...
Jessica Jackley Flannery is cofounder of Kiva.org, the world's first international person-to-person micro-lending site.(Expert Sitings)(Website overview)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Jessica Jackley Flannery is cofounder of Kiva.org, the world's first international person-to-person ...
changingthepresent.org.(Expert Sitings)(Website overview)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Changing the Present is one of the best online giving sites around. It's focused on "donation gifts" for birthdays, weddings, and holidays ....
wefeelfine.org.(Expert Sitings)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Every few minutes, We Feel Fine searches blogs around the world for the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling." When it finds those words, it records the full sentence around them, then ...
indexed.blogspot.com.(Expert Sitings)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Indexed is a creative blog that makes its point using 3 x 5, college-ruled index cards--lots of them. Whether it's issues of faith, politics, or fashion, Indexed uses small ...
socialedge.org.(Expert Sitings)
Jan 01, 2008 ... Social Edge is an online resource site founded by former eBay President Jeff Skoll. With links to news, blogs, and podcasts on fundraising, business models, ...
Hungry for America: after seven long years, the world is ready--and waiting--for the return of the United States.(MISSING LINKS)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The world wants America back. For the next several years, world politics will be reshaped by a strong yearning for American leadership. This trend will be as unexpected as it is inevitable: unexpected given the powerful anti-American sentiments sweeping the world, and inevitable given the ...