Foreign Affairs articles from January 2002

Foreign Affairs archives from January 2002

FIXING INTELLIGENCE.(national security and intelligence services in preventing terrorism)
January 1, 2002... THE LIMITS OF PREVENTION As the dust from the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was still settling, the chants began: The CIA was asleep at the switch! The intelligence system is broken! Reorganize top to bottom! The...

COPING WITH ANTIGLOBALIZATION: A Trilogy of Discontents.
January 1, 2002... Globalization -- a focal point of hostile passions and sometimes violent protests -- has become a phenomenon doomed to unending controversy. Advocates cite its virtues and its inevitability. Opponents proclaim its supposed vices and...

CAPITALISM UNHINGED: The IMF and the Lessons of the Last Financial Crisis.(The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF)
January 1, 2002... The Chastening: Inside the Crisis that Rocked the Global Financial System and Humbled the IMF. by PAUL BLUSTEIN. New York: PublicAffairs, 2001, 448 pp. $30.00. In what many observers termed the first crisis of the twenty-first century, a...

SPREADING THE WEALTH.
January 1, 2002... A RISING TIDE One of the main claims of the antiglobalization movement is that globalization is widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots. It benefits the rich and does little for the poor, perhaps even making their lot harder....

SOMEBODY ELSE'S CIVIL WAR.
January 1, 2002... Call it a city on four legs heading for murder.... New York is a woman holding, according to history, a rag called liberty with one hand and strangling the earth with the other. -Adonis [Ali...

THE NEW TRUSTBUSTERS: Brussels and Washington May Part Ways.
January 1, 2002... In July 2001, the European Commission acted on the recommendation of its antitrust arm to block a proposed merger between General Electric (GE) and Honeywell. The U.S. Department of Justice had already approved the fusion of these two American...

RED DAWN.
January 1, 2002... GERMANY'S NEW (OLD) LEFT When the two Germanys merged in 1990, one of the uncontested casualties was East Germany's communist regime. Chancellor Helmut Kohl stood triumphant as voters on both sides overwhelmingly ratified his push for...

AMERICA THE VULNERABLE.
January 1, 2002... THE UNGUARDED HOMELAND It is painful to recall that, prior to September 11, Washington's singular preoccupation when it came to protecting the U.S. homeland was national missile defense. That urgency about guarding the United States from a...

TWO WAYS TO GO GLOBAL.
January 1, 2002... THE DIFFERING PATHS OF MEXICO AND BRAZIL For the first time ever, Latin America's two giants, Brazil and Mexico, are both looking beyond their borders for significant international roles. It is striking, however, how differently each is...

WHAT'S IN A NAME?: How to Fight Terrorism.
January 1, 2002... When, in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Secretary of State Colin Powell declared that the United States was "at war" with terrorism, he made a very natural but terrible and...

BACK TO THE BAZAAR.(Middle East relations)
January 1, 2002... THE POST-GULF WAR BARGAIN A decade ago, the United States faced a defining moment in the Middle East. It had just deployed overwhelming force to liberate Kuwait and destroy Iraq's offensive capabilities. The outcome of the Gulf War,...

THE PRESSURES ON PAKISTAN.(war on terrorism)
January 1, 2002... ALLAH, THE ARMY, AND AMERICA The survival of Pakistan in its existing form is a vital U.S. security interest, one that trumps all other American interests in the country. A collapse of Pakistan -- into internal anarchy or an Islamist...

IN THE LONG RUN: Keynes and the Legacy of British Liberalism.(John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946)(Review)
January 1, 2002... John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946. by ROBERT SKIDELSKY. New York: Viking, 2001, 576 pp. $34.95. "You will read your Political Economy in my absence," Miss Prism says to the Reverend Canon Chasuble in Oscar Wilde's The...

JAPAN'S ECONOMY AT WAR WITH ITSELF.
January 1, 2002... ON THE BRINK A major historical era is ending in Japan. Institutions that created the country's economic miracle a generation ago have now brought Japan to the verge of an economic debacle. And the changes needed to resolve that crisis...

RECENT BOOKS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.
January 1, 2002... Political and Legal G. JOHN IKENBERRY The Real and the Ideal. edited by ANTHONY LAKE AND DAVID A. OCHMANEK. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001, 320 pp. $45.00. These spirited essays pay homage to a distinguished scholar of...

PALESTINE DIVIDED.
January 1, 2002... WHO LET THE DOGS OF WAR OUT? Has Yasir Arafat, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), orchestrated and led the second Palestinian intifada in order to gain popularity and legitimacy while weakening Israel and forcing it to accept...