Foreign Affairs articles from January 1994

Foreign Affairs archives from January 1994

Grass-roots policymaking: say good-bye to the 'wise men.' (US foreign policy leaders)
January 1, 1994... Many pundits blame President Clinton's inexperience or indecision for the current crisis in American foreign policy. But the roots of the dilemma lie far deeper. They run to the collapse of America's postwar policy making system--a collapse...

Time for a global new deal: labor and free trade.
January 1, 1994... The clash between capitalism and communism is over, and the winners have set about making the world a safe and efficient place for business. The reality is plain enough. Nike is making its famously expensive athletic shoes in Indonesia, where...

'Social correctness' is the new protectionism: labor and free trade.
January 1, 1994... While American social trends generally wend their way across the Atlantic, the infamous doctrine of "political correctness" failed miserably in penetrating European common sense barriers. Europeans, however, appear to have found a small but...

Jump-starting ex-communist economies: a leaf from the Marshall Plan.
January 1, 1994... The republics of the former Soviet Union (FSU) and Eastern Europe (EE), if they are to avoid political and social chaos, have only a few years to make visible progress toward providing their people with a supply of affordable consumer goods and...

Clinton's first year.
January 1, 1994... HARDING OR TRUMAN? One year's perspective is a meager basis for judging the impact of any president on the course of American foreign policy. History provides some cautionary examples for both critics and supporters of President...

Beyond Boris Yeltsin.
January 1, 1994... FOLLOWING AMERICA'S ENDURING INTERESTS BESET BY FOREIGN POLICY crises in Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti, President Clinton and his chief advisers have argued over and again that they are at least getting the big issues right. They invariably...

Wrong turn in Somalia.
January 1, 1994... FUNDAMENTAL DIVERGENCE FROM BUSH Since the end of the Persian Gulf War, pressure has mounted to involve the United Nations in a growing number of countries that are experiencing internal civil strife. Somalia is the paradigm case. It is...

The return of Russian history.
January 1, 1994... SERIOUS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE UNITED STATES Is the Russian-Soviet evil empire coming back? Certainly not yet, but amidst the confusion, there is evidence of an evolution of Russian conduct on both domestic and international issues and the...

Russia turns the corner.
January 1, 1994... TAKING WEIMAR SERIOUSLY Drug dealers, gangsters, flagrantly corrupt bureaucrats, destitute pensioners, an embittered intellectual class--it is sorry figures like these who increasingly shape our image of Russia. Together, they are...

Trade lessons from the world economy.
January 1, 1994... ALL ECONOMICS IS INTERNATIONAL In recent years the economies of all developed nations have been stagnant, yet the world economy has still expanded at a good clip. And it has been growing faster for the past 40 years than at any time...

The mystique of U.S. air power.
January 1, 1994... WAS THE GULF WAR A REVOLUTION? Air power is an unusually seductive form of military strength, in part because, like modern courtship, it appears to offer gratification without commitment. Francis Bacon wrote of command of the sea that he...

Glasnost for the CIA.
January 1, 1994... COMING IN FROM THE COLD During the Cold War, the purpose of the U.S. intelligence community was clear. American intelligence was a spyglass focused on the Soviet Union, keeping track of Soviet military research and development and...

The tragedy of Cold War history: reflections on revisionism.
January 1, 1994... It has been well over three decades now since the historian William Appleman Williams first called upon his colleagues in the profession to undertake "a searching review of the way America has defined its own problems and objectives, and its...

The Downing Street Years.
January 1, 1994... I cannot decide which is more compelling: Lady Thatcher's memoirs, this great intriguing gorget of a book, an artifact one holds in the hand--two hands, really--ever protective of its author's throat, or the range of reviews that have appeared...

In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent.
January 1, 1994... In one of his last public speeches, at the Christian Democratic Union party congress in 1966, former West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer delivered a defense of the "policy of strength" that had been the hallmark of his long tenure in office....

Facing Up: How to Rescue the Economy from Crushing Debt and Restore the American Dream.
January 1, 1994... During the 1992 election campaign, at least one person agreed with Peter G. Peterson: Governor Bill Clinton. Candidate Clinton said that, as president, he would focus on America's economic problems. Reducing the federal budget deficit, he...

Slow start, fast finish for Clinton. (Editorial)
January 1, 1994... In foreign policy, President Clinton completes his first year with a fast finish after a stumbling performance through most of 1993. The absence of a guiding strategy, of a clear sense of national interests, coupled with Clinton's inattention...