Energy

Good Riddance

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Nayef was a menace. We should be happy he's gone, but worried about the aging House of Saud he leaves behind.

BY SIMON HENDERSON | JUNE 18, 2012

Mad Libs: The Geopolitics of Energy

What does the U.S. oil and gas boom mean for international energy markets and climate change initiatives? We asked top experts, and here's what they told us.

JULY/AUGUST 2012

How Is Energy Remaking the World?

To navigate the complicated new politics of oil and gas, FP asked the author of The Quest and leading U.S. energy historian to help shape our latest survey -- and guide us through the results.

BY DANIEL YERGIN | JULY/AUGUST 2012

Think Again: The American
Energy Boom

Yes, oil and gas made in the USA is surging. But does that really liberate us from the Middle East?

BY MICHAEL LEVI | JULY/AUGUST 2012

Pit of Dreams

Can China's rust belt reinvent itself as a tourist destination?

BY JONATHAN KAIMAN | JUNE 14, 2012

Swing Producers

Ten states where the energy debate could decide the U.S. election in November.

BY LOGAN BAYROFF | JUNE 12, 2012

Playing Dirty

Can Big Oil deliver the election to Mitt Romney?

BY STEVE LEVINE | JUNE 12, 2012

Romney: Year One

What would happen if you took Mitt Romney's foreign-policy promises extremely literally?

BY DANIEL DREZNER | MAY 25, 2012

Two Worlds, One Climate

Forget Kyoto. There’s a much better way to persuade the developing world to fight climate change.

BY PETER PASSELL | MAY 23, 2012

The FP Survey: The Future of NATO

Does the 63-year-old alliance still matter today? We asked politicians, scholars, and other observers from both sides of the Atlantic to weigh in.

MAY 14, 2012

Getting Ready for Life after Castro

Managing the transition to a democratic Cuba: A user’s guide.

BY JAIME SUCHLICKI | MAY 11, 2012

Uh-Oh. Pakistan Can't Pay Its Electric Bills.

How an energy crisis became an economic and political crisis too.

BY COLIN COOKMAN | MAY 10, 2012

The Accidental Peacemaker

China now finds itself on the side of peace in a brewing border conflict between Sudan and South Sudan. But is it really committed to stopping its old buddy, Bashir?

BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY 4, 2012

What Lies Beneath

The mission to secure and seal off Kazakhstan's vast nuclear material -- buried deep underground -- is one of the greatest nonproliferation stories never told.

BY WILLIAM TOBEY | APRIL 30, 2012

Bleak House

Will Europe's crisis get worse before it gets worse?

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | APRIL 23, 2012

The World According to Glencore

"The biggest company you never heard of," as Reuters once put it, Glencore does business in dozens of countries on every continent except Antarctica. Here's a snapshot of this global empire -- and some of its murky local alliances.

BY KEN SILVERSTEIN | MAY/JUNE 2012

A Giant Among Giants

Glencore -- founded by famous fugitive Marc Rich -- has cornered the market on just about everything. Now that it's going public, will its ties to dictators and spies stand up to scrutiny?

BY KEN SILVERSTEIN | MAY/JUNE 2012

The Qatar Bubble

Can this tiny, rich emirate really solve the Middle East's thorniest political conflicts?

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | MAY/JUNE 2012

Balance of Power

In the face-off between companies and countries, don't underestimate the growing power of the state.

MAY/JUNE 2012

Treacherous Waters

The latest bad publicity for the global cruise industry is just the tip of the iceberg.

BY ROSS A. KLEIN | APRIL 6, 2012

Five Reasons Americans Should be Happy (In a Very Unhappy Middle East)

Cheer up. It's really bad. But all's not lost.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | APRIL 4, 2012

The Zero Man

Obama’s greatest obstacle to re-election isn’t Mitt Romney, or rising gas prices: It’s Ben Bernanke.

BY HELEEN MEES | APRIL 3, 2012

The World in Photos This Week

The Pope dons a sombrero, French police hunt suspected Islamists, and a Tongan king is laid to rest.

MARCH 30, 2012

The Chinese-African Union

Why is China spending $200 million for this new over-the-top headquarters for the African Union?

MARCH 19, 2012

Argentina's Dubious Boom

Argentina's economy has been coasting on its past successes. Don't be fooled.

BY ROBERT LOONEY | MARCH 14, 2012

$200 Oil and the Moscow-Beijing Alliance

An exclusive conversation with Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer on the toll of war with Iran -- and why China and Russia just don't care anymore what the United States thinks of them.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | MARCH 9, 2012

Japan's Nuclear Cabal

Japan's public is squarely against going back to nuclear power. So why is the government pushing so hard to get the country's nuclear plants back online?

BY NOBUO FUKUDA | MARCH 9, 2012

The Petrostates of America

Yes, the U.S. economy is addicted to oil -- selling it.

BY STEVEN R. KOPITS | MARCH 5, 2012

The Driller in Chief

President Obama's critics say he's been a disaster for the energy industry. But the numbers tell a different story.

BY MICHAEL LEVI | MARCH 1, 2012

Scotland's Oil Boom

How the North Sea fields are fueling the hopes of Scottish separatists.

FEBRUARY 16, 2012