Seven Questions
List of Seven Questions articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper on How to Kick Pirate Booty
The general who whipped U.S. forces in a famous war game tells FP how to crack down on Somali pirates. Ahoy!
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: William H. Donaldson
A former SEC chairman sorts out where the bailout money is going and why some things are slipping through the cracks.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: James R. Locher III
A scathing new report on U.S. national security offers a sneak preview of how Gen. James L. Jones, Barack Obama's top foreign-policy advisor, might approach the difficult task before him.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: Gilles Kepel
A terrorism analyst and Middle East expert tells Foreign Policy why al Qaeda’s racist attack on Barack Obama signals the death of jihad.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: How to Close Gitmo
Closing Guantánamo sounds easy when you have support from, well, pretty much the entire world. But as former Pentagon insider Matthew Waxman tells FP, it’s not as simple as Barack Obama thinks.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: Richard Perle’s Advice for Barack Obama
The “Prince of Darkness” weighs in on Vladimir Putin, Bob Gates, and how the new U.S. president can avoid the Bush administration’s biggest blunders.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: Paul Martin
As world leaders gear up for a major financial summit in Washington, Former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin explains why his country has weathered the subprime tsunami better than most, how the G-20 can keep the sky from falling, and what Barack Obama needs to do to make globalization work again.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: Kenneth Duberstein
A veteran White House insider tells Foreign Policy how the next president can hit the ground running.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions for Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha
Was last Sunday’s raid by U.S. forces on Syrian territory ”terrorist aggression,” electoral politics, or righteous punishment?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions for Larry Wilkerson
Colin Powell’s chief of staff shares some candid thoughts on why the former secretary of state endorsed Barack Obama -- and how the next U.S. president can get America back on track.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: Jeffrey Sachs
The global economy is in crisis, but there may be more hope for the poor than you think.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: Dexter Filkins on the Taliban’s Long War
With the Taliban growing fiercer by the day, Dexter Filkins, a grizzled war correspondent for the New York Times and author of The Forever War, shares his tales from tribal Pakistan and explains why it may be too late to apply the lessons of Iraq.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: How to Prepare for the Big Debate
U.S. voters have just over a month to decide on whether to put John McCain and Sarah Palin or Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the White House. With the polls tight, the remaining debates could be decisive. FP spoke with debate expert Alan Schroeder to find out how the candidates get ready -- and how they can avoid crippling mistakes.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: The Russian Connection
What does Viktor Bout know? FP spoke with analyst and author Douglas Farah about the surprise arrest of the world’s most notorious arms dealer, his ties to everyone from Colombian narcoterrorists to the U.S. government, and how he might get off the hook—again.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: Iraq’s Economy
To defeat the Iraqi insurgency, there are few tasks more vital than improving the country’s struggling economy.Prior to Iraq’s December parliamentary elections, FP sat down with Ali Allawi, Iraq’s finance minister, to talk about reconstruction, corruption, and the U.S. presence in Iraq.