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  The U.S. Military Index archived article

In an exclusive new index, Foreign Policy and the Center for a New American Security surveyed more than 3,400 active and retired officers at the highest levels of command about the state of the U.S. military. They see a force stretched dangerously thin and a country ill-prepared for the next fight.

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  The Failed States Index

The world’s weakest states aren’t just a danger to themselves. They can threaten the progress and stability of countries half a world away. In the third annual Failed States Index, FOREIGN POLICY and The Fund for Peace rank the countries where the risk of failure is running high.

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The Terrorism Index

In the third Terrorism Index, more than 100 of America’s most respected foreign-policy experts see a world that is growing more dangerous, a national security strategy in disrepair, and a war in Iraq that is alarmingly off course.

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Measuring Globalization: Economic Reversals, Forward Momentum archived article

It’s a small world, and globalization is making it smaller, even in the face of conflict and chaos. For the sixth year, FP, in collaboration with A.T. Kearney, sorts out globalization’s winners and losers. Find out which countries come out on top and which ones are falling behind.

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  Ranking the Rich 2006 archived article

Poverty is blamed for everything from terrorism to bird flu. Rich nations have never sounded more committed to stamping it out. Is it all just hot air? The fourth annual CGD/FP Commitment to Development Index ranks 21 rich nations on whether they’re working to end global poverty—or just making it worse.

 
     
   
  Inside the Ivory Tower

Professors of international relations counsel the leaders of today and mold the policymakers of tomorrow. But what do they think about the most pressing foreign-policy issues facing the United States? In our second exclusive survey, FP steps inside the ivory tower. By Susan Peterson, Amy Oakes, Michael J. Tierney, and Daniel Maliniak

 
     
   
  Does the Israel Lobby Have Too Much Power? archived article

Political scientists John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt sparked a firestorm when they raised questions about the power the Israel lobby wields over U.S. foreign policy. In an exclusive FP Roundtable, they face off with four distinguished experts of the Middle East over whether the influence of the Israel lobby is ordinary or extraordinary.

  
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  China Rising archived article

Nothing is changing the world's political and economic landscape more than China's joining the ranks of the great powers. Last fall, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace convened some of the world's leading thinkers on China to assess the consequences of the country's rapid ascent. FP asked seven of these experts to discuss the Middle Kingdom's return to greatness.

 
     
   
  The Day After archived article

Disarray in post-Saddam Iraq offers a sharp reminder that ridding a country of a despotic regime is much easier than figuring out who or what comes after. What economic, social, and political forces will shape the futures of other oppressed nations once their dictators fall?

 
     
   
  The Dustbin of History archived article

Some ideas that were fashionable at one point face extinction if they do not adapt to the environment. FP invited the following notable minds to sort through the dustbin of history and share what they found.