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Articles in May, 2009 issue of Foreign Policy

• Correction.(Letters)(Correction notice)
• America: the conflagration's likely big winner? The arsonist who started the fire.(THE NEXT BIG THING)
  by Lind, Michael
• Resilience: if the financial crisis has taught us anything, it is that brittle systems can fail catastrophically.(THE NEXT BIG THING)
  by Cascio, Jamais
• Better biofuels: the next generation of energy is on its way.(THE NEXT BIG THING)
  by Fresco, Louise O.
• H2O: water is the new gold, and a few savvy countries and companies are already banking on it.(THE NEXT BIG THING)
  by Brabeck-Letmathe, Peter
• More of the same: what will the world look like tomorrow? A lot like it does today.(THE NEXT BIG THING)
  by Fisman, Raymond
• A bigger big bang? We may soon be smart enough to understand how insignificant we might be in the cosmos.(THE NEXT BIG THING)
  by Toffler, Alvin
• The revenge of geography: people and ideas influence events, but geography largely determines them, now more than ever. To understand the coming struggles, it's time to dust off the Victorian thinkers who knew the physical world best. A journalist who has
  by Kaplan, Robert D.
• The land of no smiles.(WIDE ANGLE)(North Korea)
  by Van Houtryve, Tomas
• Thoroughly modern Marx: lights. Camera. Action. Das Kapital. Now.(Karl Marx)(Cover story)
  by Panitch, Leo
• Confessions of a true believer.(belief on socialism)
  by Judis, John B.
• The dictator's handbook: why is democracy failing even as elections proliferate? A thought experiment sheds new light on why aging autocrats remain so hard to dislodge.
  by Collier, Paul
• Mob rule: Italy is becoming the failed state of Western Europe, but do Italians even care that the mafia is running the show?(IN OTHER WORDS: THE WORLD'S MOST NOTEWORTHY BOOKS)
  by Pasquali, Valentina
• Baltic ghosts: Lithuania is investigating Jewish Holocaust survivors as war criminals--and using their own memoirs as evidence against them.(IN OTHER WORDS)
  by Bravin, Nick
• The early read on the great recession: as experts attempt to heal the fractured global market, a group of new books on the financial crisis is already offering the first draft of history.(IN OTHER WORDS)(Book review)
• Wasted: the American prohibition on thinking smart in the drug war.(MISSING LINKS)
  by Naim, Moises
• Bad times, big think.(recessions)
• History.(FOREIGNPOLICY.com)(Brief article)
  by Bradley, Bill
• Sovereignty.(FOREIGNPOLICY.com)(Democratic Republic of the Congo )(Brief article)
  by Herbst, Jeffrey
• The end of evil?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
  by Feaver, Peter D.
• Mexico's state of affairs.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
  by Sarukhan, Arturo
• China's Team players.(Letters)(Letter to the editor)
  by Chai, Winberg
• Amartya Sen: the Nobel Prize-winning economist reflects on misguided policies, social disasters--and whether he had it too easy.(EPIPHANIES)
  by Sen, Amartya
• Faulty towers: with financing slowing to a trickle, the world's most hyped architectural projects remain castles in the sky.(THE LIST)
  by Keating, Joshua
• The new coups: violent government takeovers now happen far less frequently--and their strongmen fall much faster.(RETHINK)(Brief article)
  by Keating, Joshua
• The longest shadow.(influence of slave trade in trust and community relations of citizens from Africa)(Brief article)
  by Keating, Joshua
• The ties that don't bind.(survey on family relations in developing and industrialized countries)(Survey)(Brief article)
  by Larson, Christina
• Calculating the cost of human foibles.(behavioral economics and the financial crisis)(Chronology)
  by Dickinson, Elizabeth
• The fatalist: the man reshaping how U.S. intelligence views the future.(National Intelligence Council's Mathew Burrows; 'Global Trands 2025' report)
  by Rozen, Laura
• Are you a globalization junkie?(THE FP QUIZ)
• The Ottoman revival: Turkish nationalism goes back to the future.(DISPATCH)
  by Schleifer, Yigal
• The green economy: going green has finally gone mainstream, and politicians from London to Seoul are spending billions on clean technologies they say will create jobs. But unless we are all willing to risk a little more pain, the green revolution could fo
  by Kahn, Matthew E.
• Soldiers of misfortune.(United Nations peacekeeping budget)(Statistical table)
  by Dickinson, Elizabeth
• Caught in the middle: for three decades, David Ignatius has talked to all camps in the fractious Middle East. Then came Davos, and an effort to "moderate" a conversation between irreconcilable sides on the Gaza war. The center not only cannot ho
  by Ignatius, David
• The next big thing: why bad times lead to great ideas.
• A new you: financial engineering brought us to the edge of ruin, but human engineering--directed evolution--will reshape the global economy, and sooner than you think.(THE NEXT BIG THING)
  by Enriquez, Juan
• Personalized education: a quantum leap in learning will allow everyone to go to the head of the class.(THE NEXT BIG THING)
  by Gardner, Howard
• Anger management: big brother is coming. So what are we going to do about it?(THE NEXT BIG THING)
  by van Creveld, Martin
• Happiness: McMansions and SUVs didn't make our lives better. Losing them just might.(THE NEXT BIG THING)(sport utility vehicles)
  by Schwartz, Barry
• Shrinkage: big finance is about to get a whole lot smaller.(THE NEXT BIG THING)
  by El-Erian, Mohamed A.
• Africa: the poorest continent is rising. Really.(THE NEXT BIG THING)
  by Moyo, Dambisa
• Neomedievalism: the world is fragmenting, badly. Gird yourself for a new dark age.(THE NEXT BIG THING)
  by Khanna, Parag
• Dangerous leviathans.(OPENING GAMBIT)
  by Talbott, Strobe
• War.(FOREIGNPOLICY.com)(Iraq war)(Brief article)
  by Ricks, Thomas E.
• Diplomacy.(FOREIGNPOLICY.com)(United States foreign policy)(Brief article)
  by Sestanovich, Stephen
• Flat world hits a bump.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
  by James, Harold