Kiplinger Personal Finance's 2006 mutual fund review made the following recommendations for international stock funds:

Dodge & Cox International Stock (DODFX)
Oakmark International (OAKIX)
Marsico International Opportunities (MIOFX)
SSgA Emerging Markets (SSEMX)

(P.S. The review was published in May, 2006.)

Dodge & Cox is not your average fund company. Most of the managers and analysts who join the San Francisco-based, employee-owned company do so after business school and stay their entire careers. The seven co-managers of Dodge & Cox International Stock (DODFX) have been at the firm an average of 17 years. That continuity, plus the firm's penchant for successfully sniffing out cheap stocks, has helped make International a top performer since its launch in 2001.

International follows the same formula perfected by Dodge & Cox Stock, a venerable domestic fund that has long owned some foreign stocks (and is now closed to new investors). Both funds are team-managed, so that a variety of viewpoints are represented. Both charge low fees; International's annual expense ratio of 0.70% is less than half that of the typical international fund. And the management teams of both funds -- there's some overlap between the two -- are terrific value investors. Experience coupled with thorough research, says co-manager Diana Strandberg, "often gives us the confidence to keep buying more of a stock as it declines."