Foreign Affairs articles from January 1995

Foreign Affairs archives from January 1995

A new colonialism? Europe must go back into Africa.
January 1, 1995... The destitution of Africa has been an all but forbidden topic in political discourse for reasons as comprehensible as they are disabling. The time has arrived, however, for honest and dispassionate discussion of this immense human tragedy, for...

Free-rider redux: NATO needs to project power (and Europe can help).
January 1, 1995... The alliance that won the Cold War has lost its way. Contented summit photos cannot hide the fact that NATO no longer defends its members' vital interests. With the Soviet Union gone and regional threats on the rise, the proper object of...

U.S.-India tensions: misperceptions on nuclear proliferation.
January 1, 1995... Relations between India and the United States have improved considerably since the end of the Cold War, but they are still punctuated by controversies over nuclear nonproliferation. To a significant extent, these conflicts seem to be the result...

Are missile defenses MAD? Combining defenses with arms control. (mutual assured destruction)
January 1, 1995... Early in the Cold War, renowned strategist Bernard Brodie gave a chilling prognosis for the dawning nuclear age: "No adequate defense against the bomb exists, and the possibilities of its existence in the future are exceedingly remote." That...

A plan for Europe. (NATO and US relations with Russia)
January 1, 1995... HOW TO EXPAND NATO THE CLINTON administration today confronts three important and interrelated questions generated by the end of the Cold War: First, what should be the scope of the Euro-Atlantic Alliance? Second, what should be the role of...

Paradigm lost. (post-Cold War US foreign policy)
January 1, 1995... FROM CONTAINMENT TO CONFUSION SENIOR CLINTON administration officials are quick to point out that one reason for their foreign policy difficulties is that the world they inherited is a more complex place than what came before. Although this...

America's unyielding policy toward Iraq: the view from France.
January 1, 1995... THE FRENCH are undoubtedly not alone among Europeans in their difficulty grasping American policy in the Middle East. Although clear in its objectives--at least those publicly defined--it invariably raises questions and sometimes suspicions. Part...

Can Haiti change?
January 1, 1995... A HISTORICAL CHALLENGE EVERY NATION IS unique; no two are identical. But Haiti is in a class by itself, not because it is the hemisphere's poorest country or because no one there before President Jean-Bertrand Aristide had ever been elected by...

Why Russia's politics matter.
January 1, 1995... THE NIGHTMARE THAT WASN'T THE RESULTS of Russia's first post-communist election in December 1993 sent a shock wave through the world. Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the nationalist demagogue of the Liberal Democratic Party, captured almost a quarter of...

The Pacific way. (Asia-Pacific region)
January 1, 1995... A CULTURAL FUSION THE SIGNIFICANT difference between the 21st century and the preceding centuries is that there will be three centers of world power (Europe, North America, and East Asia) as opposed to two in the twentieth (Europe and North...

Mitterrand's legacies. (French President Francois Mitterrand)
January 1, 1995... THE DE GAULLE OF THE LEFT FRANCOIS MITTERRAND is entering his final months as French president after a long and full run. Some believe him to be a statesman; others call him a lucky careerist. By turn, Mitterrand is described as either a...

Europe's map, compass, and horizon.
January 1, 1995... WHERE? WHY? WITH WHOM? HOPES FOR A Europe united by democracy from west to east are fading. They are being erased by the ongoing, if not expanding, Balkan war, unusually high sustained unemployment, and a loss of faith. Five years after the...

The atomic bombings reconsidered. (Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan)
January 1, 1995... THE QUESTIONS AMERICA SHOULD ASK FIFTY YEARS AGO, during a three-day period in August 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, killing more than 115,000 people and possibly as many as 250,000, and injuring at least another...

The Great Transition: America-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War.
January 1, 1995... Forty years ago the foreign policy debate in the United States revolved around the question, "Who lost China?" Today one of its most contentious issues is, "Who won the Cold War?" Advocates of the hard line feel that the events of the past five...

The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of America Power.
January 1, 1995... Lyndon Johnson should have been a great president. He was better than anybody alive at getting things done in Washington. He proved it in his first few years as president, when he persuaded the hitherto squabbling branches of government to work...

Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World: American Foreign Policy, 1963-1968.
January 1, 1995... Lyndon Johnson should have been a great president. He was better than anybody alive at getting things done in Washington. He proved it in his first few years as president, when he persuaded the hitherto squabbling branches of government to work...

Summing Up: An Autobiography.
January 1, 1995... "Ecclesiastes, of course, was right: indeed, nothing is new under the sun," writes Yitzhak Shamir in his autobiography. This seems a surprising statement from a man who has seen and molded dizzying changes in an amazingly active life. Inspired by...

A Death in Jerusalem.
January 1, 1995... "Ecclesiastes, of course, was right: indeed, nothing is new under the sun," writes Yitzhak Shamir in his autobiography. This seems a surprising statement from a man who has seen and molded dizzying changes in an amazingly active life. Inspired by...

Ralph Bunche: An American Life.
January 1, 1995... Brian Urquhart, who was Ralph Bunche's chief assistant from 1954 until Bunche's death in 1971, succeeded him as United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs--a position created for Bunche by U.N. Secretary-General Dag...