Foreign Policy Blogs

FPA’s Must Reads (January 16 – January 22)

The Seoul skyline at sunrise (Photo: utathya bhadra via Flickr).

The Seoul skyline at sunrise (Photo: utathya bhadra via Flickr).

Why a Generation of Adoptees Is Returning to South Korea
The New York Times
By Maggie Jones

Maggie Jones for The New York Times writes about the trend and motivation behind scores of people, raised by adopted parents in the U.S., immigrating back to their original home in South Korea.

Damage
The Big Roundtable
By Mariya Karimjee

The author opens up about her experience as a victim of the little-talked-about practice of  female genital mutilation and the deep, physical and emotional scars that follow for life.

Did Sierra Leone’s Hero Doctor Have to Die?
Matter
By Joshua Hammer

Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, a globally renowned expert in tropical diseases, fell ill on the front line of the fight against Ebola, the Kenema Government Hospital’s Ebola ward. Was his death necessary, and why was he denied the lifesaving treatments that could have saved him?

The Future of Religion According to Vice
Vice
By Martin Robbins

In her column for Vice, Martin Robbins explores how societies across the world will handle religion’s influence over the masses for future generations.

Finding the American Dream in Europe
Medium
By Abigail Rasminsky

Abigail Rasminsky shares her experience pursuing the values commonly associated with the ‘American dream’ while living and raising a family in Europe.

Blogs:
Two Brigadier Generals in Death by Paul Mutter
Another Round of Protests hit Brazil by Gary Sands
Nigeria’s Watershed Elections by James Nadeau
Trade And Strategic Logic by George Paik
U.S. policy forces Nigeria to turn east by Daniel Donovan