Foreign Affairs articles from January 1993

Foreign Affairs archives from January 1993

The new interventionists. (America and the World 1992/93)
January 1, 1993... A New Foreign Policy Doctrine Not so long ago we could confuse the end of the Cold War with the end of history and entertain the possibility that we had survived the famous Chinese curse of living in interesting times. A new era of...

Quest for a post-Cold War foreign policy. (America and the World 1992/93)
January 1, 1993... A Framework Is Needed With the end of the Cold War, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the shrinkage and transmutation of the Soviet threat, the United States has lost the magnetic north for calibrating its foreign policy. Major...

The new Europe: yesterday's ghosts. (economic and political problems) (America and the World 1992/93)
January 1, 1993... The Return of History Last year was not a good year for Europe, and the disease was renationalization - on cats' feet in the West and on tank tracks in the East. History, it turned out, had not ended with the champagne party atop the...

Russia and Eastern Europe: will the West let them fail? (America and the World 1992/93)
January 1, 1993... A Call for U.S. Leadership Events during the past year in Russia and eastern Europe made clear that the West is not yet prepared to lead the way into a substantially new international system. Distracted by recession, domestic...

Asia/Pacific challenges. (U.S. foreign policy) (America and the World 1992/93)
January 1, 1993... The Rising Pacific President Clinton and most Asian leaders in government and business agree on one thing: the revitalization of the American economy is far and away the most important priority in U.S.-Asia/Pacific relations. But as the...

Latin America: ready for partnership? (U.S.-Latin American relations) (America and the World 1992/93)
January 1, 1993... From the "Lost Decade" to a New Boom President Bill Clinton will have to decide soon what stance to take toward the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Should he embrace former President George Bush's soaring vision of a "free...

Retreat from Africa. (U.S.-Africa relations) (America and the World 1992/93)
January 1, 1993... Continent's Momentum for Change Stalls The winds of change that blew across Africa at the end of the Cold War have stalled. Economic reforms that promised to bring back foreign capital investment have thus far only deepened Africa's...

Debacle in Somalia. (America and the World 1992/93)
January 1, 1993... Famine: A Collective International Failure THE DRAMA of large-scale military intervention and the media's fixation on looters and "warlords" now threaten to obscure the fact that, prior to late 1992, the international response to...

Ambitious Iran, troubled neighbors. (America and the World 1992/93)
January 1, 1993... A New Locus of Danger EVENTS IN IRAN and its neighbors - Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Turkey - generated most of the Middle East's history in 1992. While the more northerly countries played in the...

Arabs and Israelis: slow walk toward peace. (America and the World 1992/93)
January 1, 1993... The New Framework for Negotiations The pursuit of peace in the Middle East has been a major item on the foreign policy agenda of every American president for the last quarter century. Over this time significant objectives have been...

The global economy bungled. (management of the international economy) (America and the World 1992/93)
January 1, 1993... Perception of Decline Troubles America Who am I? Why am I here?" So went Vice Admiral James Stockdale's surprisingly existential outburst in his slightly more than fifteen minutes of fame as a vice presidential candidate. But the comment...

Dangers of slow growth. (international economy) (America and the World 1992/93)
January 1, 1993... Global Productivity's Long Decline Slow growth of the world economy and rising unemployment in the industrialized world - along with the end of the Cold War, which once bound together the capitalist countries of North America, Europe and...

A new trade order. (trade policy) (America and the World 1992/93)
January 1, 1993... A New Global Economic Order In the emerging world economy the choice is no longer between free trade and protectionism. Governments are regulating in new ways, using measures that open markets to foreign competition and embrace national...

New mission for foreign aid. (U.S. foreign policy) (America and the World 1992/93)
January 1, 1993... Foreign Aid For Sustainable Development After 45 years America's foreign bilateral assistance program lies dead in the water. Its principal flagship, the United States Agency for International Development, has become a dispirited...

Chronology 1992. (events in international affairs) (America and the World 1992/93)
January 1, 1993... Jan. 2. Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt begins 5-year term as UN secretary general, replacing Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru. Jan. 28. President Bush delivers his 3rd State of the Union address to Congress; outlines approaches for combating...