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  1. Why Rouhani Won -- And Why Khamenei Let Him
  2. How to Prevent the Next Edward Snowden
  3. Defending Data at the Department of Veterans Affairs
  4. Energy and American Power
  5. The Turkish Media’s Darkest Hour
  6. Syria's Collapse
  7. The Insurgents; War From the Ground Up; Blowtorch
  8. Why Drones Fail
  9. Why Drones Work
  10. Putin's Self-Destruction


Most Popularly E-mailed Articles

  1. Why Rouhani Won -- And Why Khamenei Let Him
  2. The Rise of Big Data
  3. Putin's Self-Destruction
  4. Why Drones Fail
  5. Energy and American Power
  6. Beyond the Pivot
  7. Why American Education Fails
  8. The Turkish Media’s Darkest Hour
  9. Why Drones Work
  10. Iranian Foreign Policy After the Election


Most Popular Capsule Review Articles

  1. The Insurgents; War From the Ground Up; Blowtorch
  2. Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don’t See Them Coming
  3. Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
  4. Economic Mobility and the Rise of the Latin American Middle Class
  5. On Saudi Arabia: Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines—and Future
  6. The Postcolonial State in Africa: Fifty Years of Independence, 1960–2010
  7. Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
  8. Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do About It
  9. Mau Mau’s Children: The Making of Kenya’s Postcolonial Elite
  10. The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan


Most Popular Collection Articles

  1. Gallery: Blocked on Weibo
  2. Best International Relations Books of 2012
  3. Foreign Affairs Report: The Iranian Election
  4. Fascism and World War II
  5. Foreign Affairs Coverage of the Crisis in the Middle East
  6. International Institutions
  7. The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy
  8. Communism and the Cold War
  9. In Memoriam: Kenneth N. Waltz
  10. The Rise of the Rest


Most Popular Comment Articles

  1. Mutual Assured Production
  2. Fake It Till You Make It
  3. India's Feeble Foreign Policy
  4. Why Iran Should Get the Bomb
  5. The Real Story Behind Executive Pay
  6. Regulatory Moneyball
  7. Demystifying the Arab Spring
  8. A New Kind of Korea
  9. Broken BRICs
  10. The United States, Iraq, and the War on Terror


Most Popular Essay Articles

  1. Syria's Collapse
  2. Why Drones Fail
  3. Why Drones Work
  4. The Rise of Mexico’s Self-Defense Forces
  5. The Rise of Big Data
  6. In Defense of Citizens United
  7. The Next Europe
  8. Cuba After Communism
  9. The War of Law
  10. The Coming Arctic Boom


Most Popular FA Book Articles

  1. The New Arab Revolt
  2. The U.S. vs. al Qaeda
  3. The United States and Japan
  4. The Clash of Ideas
  5. Iran and the Bomb
  6. Intervention and American Foreign Policy
  7. The Rise of China
  8. The Clash of Civilizations? The Debate, Second Edition


Most Popular Interview Articles

  1. Japan Is Back
  2. Beijing's Brand Ambassador
  3. The Polish Model
  4. Generation Kill
  5. Turkey's Moment
  6. Former Syrian General Akil Hashem on the Uprising in Syria
  7. Q&A With Will McCants on al Qaeda
  8. Q&A With Robert Kaplan on China
  9. Q&A With Colin H. Kahl on Dealing With Iran
  10. Q&A With Richard N. Haass and Gideon Rose on Bin Laden's Death


Most Popular Letter to the Editor Articles

  1. Against Activism
  2. Good Service
  3. Tough Taiwan
  4. General Relativity
  5. Congress at War
  6. Leader of the Pack
  7. Hope Won’t Stop the Bomb
  8. The Facts About the Slave Trade
  9. Defending the Golan Heights
  10. The Dark Side of Iran's Drug Policy


Most Popular Letter From Articles

  1. Gay Marriage Goes to Court in Colombia
  2. Change For Chile
  3. Soft on Sein
  4. Syria's Alawite Refuge
  5. Tunisia's Post-Revolution Blues
  6. The Fallout From Washington's Time Warp on Cuba
  7. The Rise and Fall of Bolivia's Evo Morales
  8. Rocket-Propelled Syria
  9. Reading the Political Tea Leaves in China
  10. Letter From Kabul


Most Popular Postscript Articles

  1. The Truth About Geoengineering
  2. Kosovo and Serbia Make a Deal
  3. Iran Is Still Botching the Bomb
  4. Why Branding the Haqqanis Terrorists Was a Mistake
  5. Obama's War
  6. Rise of the Sultans
  7. Abbas' New York Minute
  8. Kim Jong Un Takes the World’s Worst Job
  9. Carbon Capture and Green Technology
  10. America's Coming Retrenchment


Most Popular Reading List Articles

  1. What to Read on the Caucasus
  2. What to Read on Modernization Theory
  3. What to Read on Cybersecurity
  4. What to Read on American Primacy
  5. What to Read on Chinese Politics
  6. What to Read on Nuclear Proliferation
  7. What to Read on Canadian Politics
  8. What to Read on Peruvian Politics
  9. What to Read on States and Markets
  10. What to Read on Foreign Aid


Most Popular Response Articles

  1. How To Win Over the Arab Street
  2. How to Fix America
  3. Red Lines Matter
  4. Afghan Endgame
  5. Iran and the Bomb
  6. Not Time to Attack Iran
  7. From Innovation to Revolution
  8. How Busted Is Brazil?
  9. Is Growth Good?
  10. Outgunned?


Most Popular Review Essay Articles

  1. The Myth of the Omnipotent Central Banker
  2. The Second Great Depression
  3. The Frankfurt School at War
  4. Pyongyang Perseveres
  5. Lesser Israel
  6. The Persistence of Arab Anti-Americanism
  7. Intelligent Design?
  8. Paving the Road to Hell: The Failure of U.N. Peacekeeping
  9. Government, Geography, and Growth
  10. Why the Rich Are Getting Richer


Most Popular Roundtable Articles

  1. Are We Safe Yet?
  2. What's the Problem With Pakistan?
  3. Civil Liberties, Counterterrorism, and Intelligence
  4. End of Days for Assad?
  5. Iraq: What Now?
  6. How to Promote Global Health
  7. Sam's Club


Most Popular Snapshot Articles

  1. Why Rouhani Won -- And Why Khamenei Let Him
  2. How to Prevent the Next Edward Snowden
  3. Defending Data at the Department of Veterans Affairs
  4. Energy and American Power
  5. The Turkish Media’s Darkest Hour
  6. Putin's Self-Destruction
  7. Iranian Foreign Policy After the Election
  8. Obama's Nuclear Future
  9. Meet the Mattes
  10. Triumph in Taksim Square?