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Everyone knows that Rudy Giuliani transformed the Big Apple from a haven for crime into a place where you can walk the streets after dark. But New York is not the only city to emerge from a dark past. In this List, FP looks at other cities around the world that have risen from the ashes.

The factional fighting in the Palestinian territories is over—at least for the time being. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice now has the tough job of revitalizing a peace process that has been stalled for seven years. FP spoke with Aaron David Miller, an adviser to six secretaries of state on Arab-Israeli negotiations, on Condi's difficult road ahead.

Roll out the red carpet! On February 25, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will host an Oscars ceremony with more international flavor than usual. Besides the usual American actors, nominees hail from Australia, Benin, Britain, Japan, and Mexico. And more films than usual take up global issues in creative ways. In this week’s List, FP looks at a handful of these internationally-themed contenders, selected for consideration here because … well, we like them. We really, really like them.

The past four years have been a roller-coaster for the Iraqi people. We’ve been liberated from our oppressive tyrant, only to be thrust into deadly sectarian warfare. But the fight for Iraq is not just the fight of the Iraqi people; the entire civilized world has a stake in what happens here. And simply abandoning the country to the terrorists would be everyone’s shame.

The Bush administration, the Iraqi people, and Iranian meddling have all been blamed for the mess in Mesopotamia. But the American people themselves are the true root of the problem.

The latest round of six-party talks has ended, and North Korea at last appears ready to halt its nuclear machine in exchange for economic aid. But after eight nuclear bombs and one nuclear test, is the deal several years too late? FP asked Robert Gallucci, dean of Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and the diplomat who signed the 1994 Agreed Framework, for his take on the chances of a nuclear-free North Korea.

Social networking software—the people-powered technology that drove YouTube to a $1.65 billion sale to Google and catapulted MySpace to #1 online—is all the rage in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street. In this week’s List, FP takes a look at the technologies, services, and ideas to watch in the months and years ahead.

Developing countries could earn tens of billions of dollars from pollution credits thanks to climate change—and make foreign aid a thing of the past in the process.

When President Bush announced he was sending more troops to Iraq, many in Congress rushed to condemn the move. For this week’s Seven Questions, FP asked Bruce Ackerman, a top legal scholar at Yale University, what Congress can do to back up its words with deeds.

With awards season in full swing, all eyes in the motion picture industry are turned toward Hollywood. India’s Bollywood already produces more films than the United States, however, and other countries are fast on its heels. For this week’s List, FP takes a look at these new stars of the silver screen.

Gazprom is getting a bad rap. The state-controlled energy giant that supplies a huge amount of Europe’s natural gas has been spun into a storybook villain for its hardball negotiating tactics. But it’s not Gazprom’s fault that Europeans want to consume more gas than they have.

Besides Iraq, no international topic is hotter than global warming right now. Christine Todd Whitman, who famously quit in frustration as head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in June 2003, spoke with FP on the changed political climate.