Foreign Policy: The 10 Top Stories You Missed in 2008

In 2008, our atten­tion was most­ly focused on the long Amer­i­can pres­i­den­tial cam­paign and the dra­mat­ic crash of the glob­al finan­cial sys­tem. These two sto­ries over­shad­owed many oth­er impor­tant ones. And so For­eign Pol­i­cy has put togeth­er a col­lec­tion of the most over­looked for­eign affairs sto­ries of ’08. Rus­si­a’s move into Africa, the begin­ning of a new Dar­fur, solar pan­els emit­ting green­house gas­es — these sto­ries and more get cov­ered here.