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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Asia’s New Great Game
China and India are both hungry for Burma's vast natural riches. But will Burma's people pay the price or can this Southeast Asian backwater finally enter the 21st century?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Annotated Toffler
The couple that predicted the world we live in today.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Empire at Dusk
American pundits decry the onset of sharp defense cuts, but the Pentagon can’t even account for $1 trillion in its own spending. Isn't it time to rein in the beast?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nuked
An FP special roundtable on Japan’s post-tsunami future.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Liberté, Égalité, Virilité
The French don't just tolerate their politicians' sexual dalliances -- they demand them.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Between Mosque and Military
It's not just U.S. officials who are shining a harsh light on Pakistan's complicity with Islamist groups. Pakistan's ambassador to the United States once had some tough words of his own.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Confessions of a Vulcan
An insider's story of how the Bush administration lost Afghanistan.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Eating My Way Through the Cedar Revolution
In this excerpt from a memoir of love and war, a former Beirut correspondent recalls the way her experience of Lebanon's most turbulent times was shaped by the meals she ate throughout.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Revolution in the Arab World
What to look for in FP's new exclusive ebook on the uprisings sweeping the Middle East.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Shah’s Atomic Dreams
More than three decades ago, before there was an Islamic Republic, the West sought desperately to prevent Iran's ruler from getting his hands on the bomb. New revelations show just how serious the crisis was -- and why America's denuclearization drive isn't working.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Fault Lines
Global Thinker No. 26 Raghuram Rajan's look at the fissures that brought about the global financial crisis -- and which are still at work today.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Looking Back on Too Big to Fail
From the new afterword to Andrew Ross Sorkin's classic tale of the financial crisis, recommended by several FP Global Thinkers: Have we learned anything from our failures?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Rational Optimist Goes Global
Recommended by our global thinkers, an excerpt from Matt Ridley's book on why everything is going to be OK -- even Africa and global warming.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Keystone Al-Kaeda
In the battle against Al Qaeda, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Novel Ideas
Statesmen once looked to great works of literature to help them understand the world. No longer.
