Thomas Lynch: A Plan for Pakistan Pakistani journalist and author Ahmed Rashid, long an astute commentator on matters involving Pakistan and South Asia security, wrote an important OpEd in the Washington Post this Sunday. As I did in "Afghan Dilemmas – Staying Power", Rashid highlights the pivotal role that the Pakistani Army must play in untangling the Gordian knot that has generated global sanctuary for al-Qaeda terrorists and... [read more]
Francis Fukuyama: Strong States and Liberty

The fiasco of the Olympic Torch Relay has focused attention on the condition of human rights in China.  What is the source of human rights abuses in that country today?  Many people assume the problem is that China remains a communist dictatorship, and that abuses occur because a strong centralized Chinese state ignores the rights of... [read more]

Francis Fukuyama: Benazir Bhutto, R.I.P. I find myself greatly saddened by the news of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. I met her for the first time when we took a class together on Middle Eastern Politics at Harvard, while she was still an undergraduate. I saw her twice since then, both occasions on visits to Dehli in December 2003 and then again last March. The event in March was an India Today... [read more]
Francis Fukuyama: Two Elections I was in Warsaw, Poland, and Aarhus, Denmark last week on the heels of recent elections in both countries. The victory of Donald Tusk's Civic Platform party over the incumbent Law and Justice party in the Polish case was genuinely uplifting. Poland has been ruled for the past two years by a pair of identical twins, Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who served as President and... [read more]
in the current issue: The subprime mortgage debacle has deep roots. The little-known story of how we killed thrift, enthroned loan sharks and undermined American prosperity.
Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller The Return of Malthus For much of the past two decades, Thomas Malthus has been dubbed an intellectual fossil. But what if the "limits to growth" are real after all? AI
Charles F. Doran Life after Easy Oil A plan for escaping the tightening noose of energy dependency. Hint: It's got something to do with the letters 'R & D'. AI
Gal Luft Selling Out The bailout of America's prime symbols of economic prowess signals the ascent of sovereign wealth funds as new power brokers in international relations. AI
“America Must Correct Course” Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt does his global ciphers and comes up with some disturbing conclusions. AI
Richard Rosecrance Size Matters The effective scale of systems of economic production and exchange strongly correlate with the size of political units. American Grand Strategists had best not forget this lesson. AI
David Kirby The Re-Segregation of Rock & Roll Did rock undergo a “racial re-sorting in the nineteen-nineties?” The long, strange trip from Little Richard to Dr. Dre.
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