Foreign Affairs articles from January 1996

Foreign Affairs archives from January 1996

The Moscow circus.(Duma elections)(Editorial)
January 1, 1996... It was the first snow of the season, and it fell in large flakes for three days, blanketing Moscow's gray buildings in a gentle white. The snow was nearly the only soothing thing in the Russian capital during an early winter visit. The traffic...

Shockproof: the end of the financial crisis.
January 1, 1996... The past year witnessed three of the most dramatic financial collapses since the Third World debt crisis of 1982. The meltdown of the Mexican peso in December 1994, the failure of the 233-year-old Barings Bank last February, and Daiwa Banies $1...

The growth of economic espionage: America is target number one.
January 1, 1996... Shortly after CIA officer Aldrich "Rick" Ames began selling secrets to the Soviet KGB in 1985, a scientist named Ronald Hoffman also began peddling classified information. Ames, the last known mole of the, Cold War, received $4.6 million for...

Foreign policy as social work.
January 1, 1996... THE CLINTON RECORD The seminal events of the foreign policy of the Clinton administration were three failed military interventions in its first nine months in office: the announced intention, then failure, to lift the arms embargo against...

Pivotal states and U.S. strategy.
January 1, 1996... THE NEW DOMINOES HALF A DECADE after the collapse of the Soviet Union, American policymakers and intellectuals are still seeking new principles on which to base national strategy. The current debate over the future of the international...

The exploding cities of the developing world.
January 1, 1996... VULNERABLE GIANTS THE RHYTHM of history has been the rise, collapse, and occasional rebirth of cities. Until recently urban populations waxed and waned as disease, changes in trade and technology, and shifting political fortunes rewarded some...

The return of infectious disease.
January 1, 1996... THE POST-ANTIBIOTIC ERA SINCE WORLD WAR II, public health strategy has focused on the eradication of microbes. Using powerful medical weaponry developed during the postwar period-antibiotics, antimalarials, and vaccines-political and...

Making Eurasia stable.
January 1, 1996... UZBEKISTAN AT THE CENTER CENTRAL ASIA, scene of the Great Game between England and Russia in the nineteenth century, is once more a key to the security of all Eurasia. Since the fifteenth century the region has mainly been politically...

The storm and the citadel.(Saudi Arabia)
January 1, 1996... DISSIDENCE IN ARABIA Saudi Arabia's royal family is convinced it presides over a country that is peculiarly blessed. It feels it has created a fusion of political and religious power ideal for an Islamic society, and it is puzzled that other...

france's nuclear dilemmas.
January 1, 1996... TESTING TIMES France conducted an underground nuclear test in French Polynesia last September, breaking a three-year-old moratorium on nuclear weapons testing that had been observed by the other recognized nuclear powers with the exception of...

The second coming of the nuclear age.
January 1, 1996... A PLAN TO CONTROL THE ATOMIC MENACE Half A century after it began, the nuclear drama has reached the conclusion of its first act--a rather happy ending in spite of the gloomy prospects for civilization that darkened the stage at the outset....

Sharing the atom bomb: after Hiroshima.
January 1, 1996... WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN COLONEL STIMSON was worried. A week earlier, a few days after the atomic bomb had exploded over Hiroshima, he had had a small heart attack. With intimations of mortality, the weary secretary of war, who was nearly 78, had...

The End of Affluence: The Causes and Consequences of America's Economic Dilemma.
January 1, 1996... BY JEFFREY G. MADRICK. New York: Random House, 1995, 223 pp. $22.00. In 1990 Stanford economist Paul Krugman wrote a superb primer on U.S. economic policymaking in the 1990s that he called The Age of Diminished Expectations. In it he argued...

Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism.
January 1, 1996... By Richard Gid Powers. New York: The Free Press, 1995, 527 pp. $30-00. After the Second World War, there was belated acknowledgment in the United States of the role of "premature antifascists," those who had opposed fascism before it became...

Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft.
January 1, 1996... By Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995, 493 pp. $35-00. Name the three greatest moments in the history of American statecraft. The first, the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, is surely beyond debate. For a...

A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century.
January 1, 1996... BY JEFFREY T. RICHELSON. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, 534 pp. $30-00. In his 1928 Ashenden stories, W. Somerset Maugham, who had undertaken missions for British intelligence in the First World War, portrayed espionage even for our...

The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA.
January 1, 1996... BY EVAN THOMAS. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995, 427 pp. $27-50. In his 1928 Ashenden stories, W. Somerset Maugham, who had undertaken missions for British intelligence in the First World War, portrayed espionage even for our side as morally...