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You didn’t think that just because of our fancy new Web site, we’d slack off on the print edition did you? The latest issue of Foreign Policy is on newsstands now and it’s packed full of exciting content. As you can tell from the cover, the big theme of this issue is the monumental challenges ...
You didn't think that just because of our fancy new Web site, we'd slack off on the print edition did you? The latest issue of Foreign Policy is on newsstands now and it's packed full of exciting content.
You didn’t think that just because of our fancy new Web site, we’d slack off on the print edition did you? The latest issue of Foreign Policy is on newsstands now and it’s packed full of exciting content.
As you can tell from the cover, the big theme of this issue is the monumental challenges facing President-elect Barack Obama. First up is Afghanistan: Nathaniel C. Fick and John A. Nagl, co-authors of the Army’s influential counterinsurgency manual, write an updated edition tailored to the Afghan front. For the same package, FP Executive Editor Susan Glasser interviewed Gen. David Petraeus shortly after he took command of CENTCOM about the challenges of Afghanistan.
Then there’s the economy. Five economists who predicted the financial crisis — including Nouriel Roubini who called it in FP last March — explain what we’re in for next. Their take: “The Worst is Yet to Come.” William Easterly also explains the implications of the crisis for the world’s poor in “The Poor Man’s Burden” and journalist Carla Power explains how the new field of Islamic finance is coping with the crash.
Why can’t Israel and the Palestinians make peace? According to Gershom Gorenberg, it’s the settlements, stupid. And if you thought that there was anything the new administration could do to stop climate change, Bill McKibben explains why you should think again.
How’s Obama going to confront all these problems? According to FP editor Chris Brose, he’s going to preserve more of the Bush administration’s approach than you might think. New ideas are certainly needed though, and the new Think Tank Index ranks the institutions that will provide them.
Of course, check out old favorites, Prime Numbers, Inbox, and Net Effect, as well as the new books feature, Early Read.
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Elizabeth Dickinson is International Crisis Group’s senior analyst for Colombia.
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