Max Fisher

How will it change a region long disconnected from the outside world?… More »

Data show that Muslim countries are experiencing a rapid and sustained drop in violent conflict… More »

The country's economic growth, long thought to ensure Communist Party rule, has done little to curb the protests and violence that have erupted across the country in recent weeks… More »

The besieged president gave his first address in two months this morning, another sign that the situation in his country could be turning against him… More »

Social media has allowed the "Women2Drive" movement to organize and to spread the idea that women have a right to drive… More »

Today's demonstration, with Saudi women getting behind the wheel in protest of the restrictive law, could mark a turning point in the country's gender laws… More »

Why is the U.S. sending farmers with high security clearance to Afghanistan?… More »

With military forces massacring civilians unopposed and the international community divided, nothing short of a mass humanitarian awakening among security forces is likely to save Syria… More »

As the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force's efforts in Afghanistan have struggled, its PR has become cheerier and vaguer… More »

Improving Saudi gender rights, some of the worst in the world, could be one of the more important small-scale accomplishments of the Arab Spring… More »

After two bruising years in Afghanistan, the Obama administration appears poised to hasten the U.S. departure from the increasingly troubled war… More »

As countries like Syria are crippled by sanctions and divestment, the crackdown of Bahraini King al-Khalifa can't even deter a glitzy, very public sporting event… More »

Naoto Kan is only the latest in a long string of Japanese politicians who step down in disgrace… More »