Foreign Affairs This Week 2/21

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False Friends Why the United States Is Getting Tough With Turkey By Michael J. Koplow As a U.S. ally, Turkey has been lacking for some time. But it is only recently that the United States has started to voice its displeasure. If Turkey's sudden about-face on a number of issues is any indication, the Obama administration should have made getting tougher with...

The Muslim Martin Luther? Fethullah Gulen Attempts an Islamic Reformation By Victor Gaetan Gulen has tried to develop a genuinely modern school of Islam that reconciles the religion with liberal democracy, scientific rationalism, ecumenism, and free enterprise....

Ukraine's Big Three Meet the Opposition Leaders at the Helm of Euromaidan By Annabelle Chapman In recent weeks, three opposition politicians have attempted to guide the protests in Ukraine: Vitali Klitschko, Oleh Tyahnybok, and Arseniy Yatsenyuk. With violence now rising in Kiev's Independence Square, they must decide what to do...

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Debating China The U.S.-China Relationship in Ten Conversations Edited by Nina Hachigian "Readers of Debating China will feel as if they are participating in high-level Track II diplomacy ... The exchanges between prominent Americans and their Chinese counterparts are not always reassuring, but they are stimulating, important, and rare."--Anne-Marie Slaughter Nina Hachigian pairs leading scholars and former government officials from the U.S. and China to provide an invaluable dual perspective on such crucial issues as trade and investment, human rights, climate change, military dynamics, regional security in Asia, and the media, including the Internet. Click here for more information

Privacy Pragmatism Focus on Data Use, Not Data Collection By Craig Mundie The current approach to protecting individual digital privacy and civil liberties, focusing on limiting data collection and retention, is obsolete. The time has come for a new approach focused on controlling data...

Beyond GDP What the Measure of Economic Performance Misses About Economic Performance By Diane Coyle The economy's character -- and what citizens value -- is changing, and that the way we measure the economy will have to keep up. In particular, economists will have to grapple with three issues: complexity, driven by innovation; the increasing share in advanced economies of...

Sisi the Invincible Why Egypt's Next President Won't Fear a Revolution By Eric Trager, Gilad Wenig Abdel Fattah al-Sisi doesn't seem to have solutions to any of the problems that toppled Egypt's last two leaders. But if he wins the presidency, he will be much better insulated from uprisings than his...

After Disowning ISIS, al Qaeda is Back On Top Here's Why That Isn't Necessarily Bad News By Barak Mendelsohn Disowning ISIS came at some cost of reputation for al Qaeda, but the group could no longer afford to keep an affiliate that subverted central command. In the weeks and months to come, the United States would be wise to use the continued rift to promote its own interests in...

Colonialism's Enduring Dividends Why European Companies Have an Advantage in Emerging Markets By Bhaskar Chakravorti, Jianwei Dong, Kate Fedosova European corporations have an important competitive advantage in many emerging markets: a legacy of colonialism that provides cultural, linguistic, and political ties. The fact that the United States has no such legacy is a liability as U.S. firms try to catch up to their...

Perfect Partners North America's Shared Future By David Petraeus and Robert Zoellick As crises in the Middle East and rising tensions in Asia have consumed U.S. policymakers' attention over the past decade, Washington has devoted comparatively little thought to North America. Yet it is precisely today's broader global challenges that make an ambitious...

Museveni's Oil Bet Letter from Kampala By Vivian Salama Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni calls the country's recently discovered oil reserves "my oil" and has pushed a major new refinery project to shore up his presidency for...

Foreign Affairs Focus: Tom Donilon on U.S. Asia Policy Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, interviews Tom Donilon, former U.S. national security...

What's Inside the March/April 2014 Issue In the March/April 2014 issue: Craig Mundie, senior adviser to the CEO of Microsoft, calls for a new approach to digital privacy and civil...