The year is well underway and already marked by defining events -- a new U.S. administration, a new global economic scale, and the old terminology no longer applies. Which leads us to the March/April 2009 cover story's series of special reports: The Axis of Upheaval.
It starts with Niall Ferguson who, in his article, "After the Crash: The New Age of Instability," says forget Bush's "Axis of Evil" -- Iran, Iraq, and North Korea no longer pose the greatest threat of global upheaval. So, on which countries should the world keep a watchful eye?
We've got a least three pegged -- Jeffrey Gettleman discusses why Somalia has only had six months of peace in the past two decades and why, as the country threatens the entire region, the world still just sits back, watching from a distance. Arkady Ostrovsky looks at how the economic crisis is unraveling Putin's Russia, and Sam Quinones offers a close-up review of how Mexico's hillbilly drug smugglers morphed into the raging insurgency that's claimed more lives there last year than all the Americans killed in the war in Iraq.
This issue sets its sights on the far reaches of the financial meltdown, analyzing the global consequences.
If you think you know what the economic turmoil has done to globalization... Think Again. Moisés Naím instructs us to ignore all those premature obituaries. Even though some say globalization is the cause of today's financial collapse and others believe it's the solution to these problems, one thing is for sure: globalization is here to stay.
And what about China? How will the princelings take on populists and Pekinologists try to make sense of it all? In "China's Team of Rivals" Cheng Li provides an insider's guide to the leaders at the country's controls.
Don't forget the old (and new) favorites -- Prime Numbers, the sushi edition, The Early Read on Iran, and FP's blogger Dan Drezner fills in as Missing Links columnist this issue, offering 13 unexpected consequences of the economic crash. (A sure-fire favorite? Check out #7.)
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