In Box
List of In Box articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Money Market
How the West was won -- in the Middle Ages
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Strange Trade
Recent research reveals the surprising unintended consequences of free trade
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Epiphanies from Nandan Nilekani
"Seattle has Bill," Thomas Friedman once wrote. "Bangalore has Nandan." The co-founder of Infosys -- the Indian company that made "outsourcing" a household word -- famously gave Friedman the central conceit for The World Is Flat when he said that global commerce's "playing field is being leveled" by communications technology. Now tasked with providing digital IDs to 1.2 billion Indians, Nandan Nilekani is trying to finish the job he started in the private sector: bringing a country that never entirely left the 19th century all the way into the 21st.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Haiti Doesn’t Need Your Old T-Shirt
The West can (and should) stop dumping its hand-me-downs on the developing world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Responsibility to Protect: A Short History
Just what is a just war?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Country for Old Men
A dissident reports from the ruins of the daddy state, where Papá Fidel is now just the patient-in-chief.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 War Games: A Short History
How ancient Greek amusements became an indispensable 21st-century military tool.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Millions May Die … Or Not.
How disaster hype became a big global business.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Epiphanies from Bob Woodward
A decade and five books later, the world's most famous investigative journalist has told us more about what happened behind closed doors in Washington's global war on terror than anyone. So how does he think it will be remembered?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Huge in Asia
They may not play in Peoria anymore. But these storied American brands are reinventing themselves to sell in Shanghai.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Dangerous Aid
Does paying countries to fight terrorism always backfire?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Rich Country, Poor Country
The economic divide continues to expand.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Things They Carried: The Plugged-in Foreign Minister
Carl Bildt, the gadget-obsessed, hyper-accessible Swedish foreign minister, says he spends more than 200 days on the road a year (and that's if his travel is "below average"). "You need to," he says, to "be able to influence things." In between catching the Paris Air Show and flying home for the Swedish midsummer holiday, he spoke with Foreign Policy about what's in his basic black Tumi carry-on.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Lap of Luxembourgery
So what if it has the world's highest per capita GDP? A visit to the debt-ridden capital of European complacency.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Things They Carried: The Tahrir Square Irregular
Hazem Marghany, a 25-year-old architect, spent 18 days in Cairo's Tahrir Square during the revolution and has come back every Friday since. Here's what he packs in his black Adidas laptop bag.
