Foreign Affairs articles from January 2003

Foreign Affairs archives from January 2003

Iraq and the Arabs' Future.
January 1, 2003... THE ROAD TO MODERNITY There should be no illusions about the sort of Arab landscape that America is destined to find if, or when, it embarks on a war against the Iraqi regime. There would be no "hearts and minds" to be won in the Arab...

Palestine, Iraq, and American Strategy.
January 1, 2003... REMOVE THE WEDGE? When toppling Saddam Hussein rose to the top of the Bush administration's foreign policy agenda, a chorus of voices protested that Washington had misdiagnosed the root cause of its Middle Eastern dilemmas. "It's...

Suicide From Fear of Death?(possible war between the US and Iraq)
January 1, 2003... SNAKE FIGHT With war in the Middle East imminent, it is clear that the United States has painted itself -- as well as Iraq -- into a corner. The Bush administration's success in engineering international support for a preventive war in the...

Iran's Crumbling Revolution.
January 1, 2003... AMERICA AND THE AYATOLLAHS Western reporters tend to describe the current situation in Iran in alarmist terms, suggesting that the people are near revolt, the regime faces collapse, and the country is prone to political upheaval. Even if...

Hate Your Policies, Love Your Institutions.(terrorists and Middle Eastern Muslims)
January 1, 2003... "WHY DO THEY HATE US?" Two groups have come under examination in the "why do they hate us?" debate that has unfolded since September 11, 2001. One comprises the perpetrators of violence and terrorism -- the Osama bin Ladens, the Mohammad...

Bridging the Atlantic Divide.(European and US response to attacks on Sep 11, 2001)
January 1, 2003... FROM SOLIDARITY TO RECRIMINATION In the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Americans and Europeans surprised each other in positive ways. George W. Bush, who had faced vast protests during his first visit to...

Promoting Democracy and Fighting Terror.(Bush administration policy)
January 1, 2003... SPLIT PERSONALITY When George W. Bush took office two years ago, few observers expected that promoting democracy around the world would become a major issue in his presidency. During the 2000 presidential campaign Bush and his advisers had...

Borders Beyond Control.(international migration)
January 1, 2003... A DOOR THAT WILL NOT CLOSE International migration lies close to the center of global problems that now seize the attention of politicians and intellectuals across the world. Take just a few recent examples. - Prime Ministers Tony...

Lula's Brazil.(President Inacio Lula da Silva)
January 1, 2003... PANIC ATTACK On October 27, 2002, Brazil elected as its president Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, known to all as Lula. Although Brazil emerged from military dictatorship less than two decades ago, and there is supposedly much disillusionment...

Japan's Phoenix Economy.
January 1, 2003... TEN YEARS TO RECOVERY A half-century ago, Japan picked itself up from the ashes of war and, within a few years, stunned the world with its economic achievements. In all likelihood, it will do the same again. True, some analysts see...

The WTO on Trial.
January 1, 2003... GLOBAL LAW, GLOBAL POLITICS Last fall, a judicial panel of the World Trade Organization (WTO) issued a controversial ruling in a high-stakes corporate tax dispute between the United States and the European Union. Paying scant attention to...

The War to End All Wars?(books on World War 1)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Lessons of World War I Revisited 14-18: Understanding the Great War. BY STEPHANE AUDOIN-ROUZEAU AND ANNETTE BECKER, TRANSLATED BY CATHERINE TEMERSON. New York: Hill and Wang, 2002, 272 pp. $24.00. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed...

While America Slept.(book on terrorism)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Understanding Terrorism and Counterterrorism The Age of Sacred Terror. by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon. New York: Random House, 2002,490 pp. $25.95. Throughout the 1990s, the U.S. foreign policy establishment confronted a simple...

Recent Books on International Relations.
January 1, 2003... Political and Legal G. John Ikenberry Condemned to Repeat? The Paradox of Humanitarian Action. by Fiona Terry. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002, 304 pp. $42.50 (paper, $19.95). An insider's searching critique of the...

Letters to the Editor.
January 1, 2003... Arthur C. Helton joins the humanitarian intervention debate; Martin I. Bresler and John J. Pikarski, Jr., defend Poland; and others ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER To the Editor: The exchange between Gareth Evans and Mohamad Sahnoun, "The...