World Policy Journal articles

Recent articles from World Policy Journal

Dear Mr. President.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Cover story)
December 22, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The celebrations are finished, for the moment, from the Champs Elysees and the plains of Kenya to Tokyo's Ginza. By noon on the last day of April 2009, America's forty-fourth president will have been in office for 100 days. Without question, it will be among the...

How to save the world.
December 22, 2008... Dear Mr. President: By now, you are painfully aware of the gravity of the economic crisis you will soon inherit. It is clear that this is no ordinary business-cycle downturn. The crisis is the product of the bursting of one of the largest credit and asset bubbles in modern financial history...

Striking the balance: the way forward in Iraq.
December 22, 2008... Late in the presidential race, after Senator John McCain suspended his campaign in the wake of the financial crisis, Senator Barack Obama remarked, "A president has to be able to do more than one thing at a time." Indeed, an administration's ability to balance competing demands is...

Rethinking U.S. policy in Afghanistan.
December 22, 2008... On a recent trip to southern Afghanistan, I befriended a jovial security guard while waiting for an interview with Kandahar's provincial governor. The guard invited me to visit an "important friend" whom he thought I would be pleased to meet. "My friend is a malik," he proclaimed proudly,...

Imagining counterterrorism's future.
December 22, 2008... The early autumn sun was bright in a cloudless sky as the shuttle bus turned sharply into the Maclean, Virginia, headquarters of the MITRE Corporation. Hidden away on a sprawling campus strategically close to both Langley (Central Intelligence Agency headquarters) and Dulles airport, gleaming...