List of Theory articles
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After the Crash
Would a sudden collapse on Wall Street spark a global Great Depression, 21st-century style? Maybe. However, the biggest dangers lie not in shrinking economies or international financial panics, but in the worldwide spread of misguided policies that would follow a stock market debacle.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Verbosity of Power
Needed: a cure for global glossolalia.
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Bottom Feeders
The "race to the bottom" in global labor and environmental standards has captivated journalists, politicians, and activists worldwide. Why does this myth persist? Because it is a useful scare tactic for multinational corporations and populist agitators peddling their policy wares.
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Who Gets to Run the World?
Now more than ever, the world's multilateral organizations need top talent. But they usually don't get it. Find out how today’s bureaucratic all-stars really make the team -- and why the best players rarely get a chance.
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Fads, Fevers, and Firestorms
We live in a contagious world. Financial panic in Thailand sweeps across Asia and engulfs Russia. HIV infects more than 34 million people worldwide. But what impact is globalization having on the spread of political ideas? As interconnected as today's world is, national borders remain surprisingly solid barriers against political contagion.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Advice for Anarchists
Who is blocking globalization, the protesters or the summiteers?
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Will Globalization Go Bankrupt?
Global integration is driven not by politics or the Internet or the World Trade Organization or even -- believe it or not -- McDonald's. No, throughout history, globalization has been driven primarily by monetary expansions. Credit booms spark periods of economic integration, while credit contractions quickly squelch them. Is today's world on the verge of another globalization bust?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Vox Americani
What do Americans want? The U.S. public's view of the world has long been a study in what seem like maddening contradictions, at times both altruistic and paranoid, protectionist and entrepreneurial, and isolationist and multilateralist. Like many other analysts, FP's editors have worn deep furrows into our brows trying to discern how Americans see the world and their place in it. So we invited Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland and author of several groundbreaking studies of U.S. public opinion, to "interview" the American people on the most pressing global issues of the day. He created a composite of average Americans -- a virtual John/Jane Q. Public -- derived from the majority positions in extensive polling data and using the kind of language he commonly hears in focus groups. (An annotated version of this interview can be found at foreignpolicy.com with footnotes citing poll questions and data.) As it turns out, Americans defy simple labels, largely because they refuse to submit to simplistic choices.
