Foreign Affairs articles from January 2005

Foreign Affairs archives from January 2005

Grand Strategy in the Second Term.
January 1, 2005... RECONSIDERATIONS Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts. They provide the least awkward moment at which to replace or reshuUe key advisers. They lessen, although nothing can remove, the influence of domestic...

Iraq: Winning the Unwinnable War.
January 1, 2005... QUICKSAND OR QUAGMIRE? The recent American presidential campaign has had the perverse effect of postponing any serious national debate on the future U.S. course in Iraq. Electoral considerations placed a premium on consistency at the...

Iraq: The Logic of Disengagement.
January 1, 2005... Iraq: The Logic of Disengagement Luttwak, Edward N. WITHDRAW NOW Given all that has happened in Iraq to date, the best strategy for the United States is disengagement. This would call for the careful planning and scheduling of...

The Global Economic Challenge.
January 1, 2005... PRIORITY ATTENTION As he begins a second term, President George W. Bush faces daunting global economic challenges. It will not be easy to meet them successfully, for although some of his administration's policies have been encouraging,...

A Nuclear Posture for Today.
January 1, 2005... A THREAT TRANSFORMED The collapse of the Soviet Union was a dramatic geopolitical shift that should have led to major changes in the nuclear posture of the United States. The policy reviews undertaken by the Clinton administration in 1994...

The Middle East Predicament.
January 1, 2005... MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS The United States has had critical interests in the Middle East for as long as it has been a global power. Securing the flow of the region's oil to the world economy has always been a central priority. During...

Re-Envisioning Asia.
January 1, 2005... UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT A key task facing the second Bush administration is devising the proper security architecture for eastern Asia. The United States is confronting several immediate problems, including the North Korean nuclear standoff,...

The North Atlantic Drift.(Europe-U.S. relations)
January 1, 2005... TURNING THE TIDE Reconstructing the transatlantic partnership is one of the most important strategic challenges facing President George W. Bush in his second term. Having squandered global sympathies after the attacks of September 11,...

Did North Korea Cheat?
January 1, 2005... WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION On October 4, 2002, the United States suddenly confronted North Korea with a damning accusation: that it was secretly developing a program to enrich uranium to weapons grade, in violation of the 1994 agreement...

Back to the Balkans.
January 1, 2005... FORGOTTEN, NOT FIXED Since the departure on June 28, 2001, of the Balkans' most iconic henchman, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, to a courtroom in The Hague, the region has mostly sunk into obscurity. The attacks of September...

Darfur and the Genocide Debate.(Sudan)
January 1, 2005... WHAT'S IN A NAME? In Sudan's western Darfur region, a massive campaign of ethnic violence has claimed the lives of more than 70,000 civilians and uprooted an estimated 1.8 million more since February 2003. The roots of the violence are...

Rebuilding Weak States.
January 1, 2005... CRITICAL CONDITION "Postconflict reconstruction" has become the foreign policy issue du jour in Washington. Multiple think-tank studies, a new State Department office, and no fewer than ten proposed congressional bills all tackle the...

Whither Political Islam?(The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West)(Globalized Islam)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West By Gilles Kepel Cambridge: Belknap, 2004, 336 pp., $23.95 The debate over why the attacks of September 11, 2001, occurred has been dominated by different versions of "culture talk," the...

The Next Nuclear Wave.(Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe By Graham Allison New York: Times Books, 2004, 272 pp., $24.00 Not since the early days of the Cold War have proliferation experts and the general public been so attuned to...

No Size Fits All.(At War's End: Building Peace After Civil Conflict)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... At War's End: Building Peace After Civil Conflict By Roland Paris Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 302 pp., $65.00 (paper, $23.99) The UN has been in the business of peacekeeping since 1948. During the Cold War, UN...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2005... ... A Long Way From The Top By John G. Heimann and Kathleen Jennings To the Editor: Michael Shifter makes several worthy points about the predicaments of the southern Andean states of Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia. A recent Council on...

Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa By Stephen Ellis and Gerrie Ter Haar New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 272 pp., $60.00 (paper, $19.95) A religious revival is taking place in sub-Saharan...

The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Superpower Myth: The Use and Misuse of American Might By Nancy Soderberg New York: Wiley, 2004, 432 pp., $27.95 Soderberg, a Clinton administration insider who held high-level positions on the National Security Council and at...

Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus By David Held Cambridge: Polity, 2004, 216 pp., $59.95 (paper, $19.95) In this social democratic manifesto for the reform of global governance, Held, a...

Politics and Passion: Toward a More Egalitarian Liberalism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Politics and Passion: Toward a More Egalitarian Liberalism By Michael Walzer New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004, 208 pp., $25.00 In this elegant and probing critique of contemporary liberal thought, Walzer argues that standard...

Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Balance of Power: Theory and Practice in the 21st Century By Edited by T.V. Paul, James J. Wirtz, and Michel Fortmann Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2004, 400 pp., $70.00 (paper, $27.95) The balance of power is one of the...

The United States and the Rule of Law in International Affairs.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The United States and the Rule of Law in International Affairs By John Murphy New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 378 pp., $85.00 (paper, $30.00) After World War II, the United States championed the creation of an...

The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations By Sebastian Mallaby New York: Penguin Press, 2004, 400 pp., $29.95 The Washington-based World Bank is the pre-eminent global...

Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power By Sanjeev Khagram Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004, 288 pp., $45.00 (paper, $21.95) Following the success of the Hoover Dam and the Tennessee Valley complex...

Dealing with Terrorism Stick or Carrot?(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Dealing with Terrorism: Stick or Carrot? By Bruno S. Frey Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2004, 200 pp., $75.00 (paper, $30.00) Frey, a Swiss economist, provides a systematic account of what economists and other social scientists have...

The Euro and Its Central Bank: Getting United After the Union.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Euro and Its Central Bank: Getting United After the Union By Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004, 264 pp., $40.00 Padoa-Schioppa, a former executive at the Bank of Italy, has sat on the board of the European...

An Agenda for a Growing Europe: The Sapir Report.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... An Agenda for a Growing Europe: The Sapir Report By Andre Sapir et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 208 pp., $95.00 (paper, $35.00) In 2000, European leaders ostentatiously set out in their Lisbon declaration to become...

Transforming the European Economy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Transforming the European Economy By Martin Neil Baily and Jacob Funk Kirkegaard Washington: Institute for International Economics, 2004, 368 pp., $31.95 In 2000, European leaders ostentatiously set out in their Lisbon declaration...

Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror By Mark Danner New York: New York Review of Books, 2004, 592 pp., $19.95 Danner's grim collection of documents charts how U.S. government lawyers justified increasingly...

Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib By Seymour M. Hersh New York: HarperCollins, 2004, 416 pp., $25.95 Danner's grim collection of documents charts how U.S. government lawyers justified increasingly coercive...

Torture: A Collection.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Torture: A Collection By Edited by Sanford Levinson New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 328 pp., $29.95 Danner's grim collection of documents charts how U.S. government lawyers justified increasingly coercive "interrogation...

Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle By Stephen Biddle Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, 312 pp., $37.50 This book has been eagerly awaited, as Biddle has established himself as unique among...

Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism By Jeanne Guillemin New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, 256 pp., $27.95 The occasional and opportunistic use of disease in war...

Command Failure in War: Psychology and Leadership.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Command Failure in War: Psychology and Leadership By Robert Pois and Philip Langer Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004, 304 pp., $29.95 War stretches human endurance to its limits, both for those at the sharp end of combat...

War and Human Nature.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... War and Human Nature By Stephen Peter Rosen Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, 216 pp., $29.95 War stretches human endurance to its limits, both for those at the sharp end of combat and for the generals on whose decisions...

An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power By John Steele Gordon New York: HarperCollins, 2004, 480 pp., $26.95 No single volume can do full justice to the history of the American economy, but An Empire of...

The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments By Gertrude Himmelfarb New York: Knopf, 2004, 304 pp., $25.00 One of the most important and least remarked truths of modern history is that the British...

Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Ulysses S. Grant: The Unlikely Hero By Michael Korda New York: HarperCollins, 2004, 176 pp., $19.95 This lively and well-constructed short biography of Ulysses Grant follows the method of Plutarch, describing Grant's life from the...

Washington's Crossing.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Washington's Crossing By David Hackett Fischer New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 576 pp., $35.00 (paper, $16.95) Brandeis historian Fischer won a large and devoted following with Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in...

History Lessons: How Textbooks Around the World Portray American History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... History Lessons: How Textbooks Around the World Portray American History By Dana Lindaman and Kyle Ward New York: New Press, 2004, 400 pp., $26.95 Lindaman and Ward had a brilliant idea: show Americans what the rest of the world...

Fear: The History of a Political Idea.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Fear: The History of a Political Idea By Corey Robin New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 336 pp., $28.00 This talented young political scientist examines fear as a "political tool, an instrument of elite rule or insurgent...

The Origins of the Final Solution.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Origins of the Final Solution By Christopher R. Browning with Jurgen Matthaus Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004, 616 pp., $39.95 This enormous volume explores in exhaustive detail the evolution of a policy aimed at...

A Democratic Audit of the European Union.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... A Democratic Audit of the European Union By Christopher Lord New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 270 pp., $69.95 It is with great anticipation that one turns to a book that aims to carry out an "audit" of the European Union to find...

"Aza Beast": Attacking the Roots of War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... "Aza Beast": Attacking the Roots of War By Colum Murphy Bursinel: Pandora/Smisao, 2004, 445 pp., $25.00 As a UN official in Bosnia, Murphy carried out his mission with distinction, but his analysis of, and intense feelings about,...

Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It By Ronald Aronson Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, 302 pp., $32.50 (paper, $19.00) This excellent study of the friendship and break between...

Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Tribal Nation: The Making of Soviet Turkmenistan By Adrienne Lynn Edgar Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, 304 pp., $37.50 Governed by what is surely the most eccentrically despotic regime in the post-Soviet space and by...

Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956: Between the United States and the Soviet Union.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956: Between the United States and the Soviet Union By Laszlo Borhi Budapest: Central European University Press, 2004, 354 pp., $49.50 From the wealth of new Cold War history comes insight into how it...

Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor By Elizabeth C. Dunn Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004, 224 pp., $45.00 (paper, $18.95) Dunn, an anthropologist, offers a ground-level appraisal of the...

Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Then They Started Shooting: Growing Up in Wartime Bosnia By Lynne F. Jones Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004, 352 pp., $27.95 Out of the horror of human cruelty in the Bosnian war comes a bright note. Jones, a child...

Vaclav Havel: Civic Responsibility in the Postmodern Age.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Vaclav Havel: Civic Responsibility in the Postmodern Age By James F. Pontuso Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, 192 pp., $70.00 (paper, $24.95) It is hard to imagine a contemporary political leader other than Vaclav Havel whom...

Putin: Russia's Choice.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Putin: Russia's Choice By Richard Sakwa New York: Routledge, 2004, 320 pp., $95.00 (paper, $21.95) Yet another political biography of Vladimir Putin, which raises the question, Why so many of him and not of the country? In fact,...

Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World By Robert R. Bianchi New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 384 pp., $35.00 The annual pilgrimage-hajj-to Mecca has existed since the rise of Islam. It is to be...

Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism By Zachary Lockman New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 330 pp., $22.99 The first half of this book surveys how the West has "imagined" the...

Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror By Anonymous Dulles: Brassey's, 2004, 352 pp., $27.50 A career CIA analyst and the author of Through Our Enemies' Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of...

Western Muslims and the Future of Islam.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Western Muslims and the Future of Islam By Tariq Ramadan New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 288 pp., $29.95 The grandson of Hasan al-Banna, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928, Ramadan was born in Switzerland 42 years...

Defending Israel: A Controversial Plan toward Peace.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Defending Israel: A Controversial Plan Toward Peace By Martin Van Creveld New York: St. Martin's, 2004, 224 pp., $21.95 Israeli military historian van Creveld's plan for peace is to get out of the Palestinian territories occupied...

Separated at Birth: How North Korea Became the Evil Twin.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Separated at Birth: How North Korea Became the Evil Twin By Gordon Cucullu Guilford: Lyons, 2004, 320 pp., $24.95 Separated at Birth is a smooth account of how the two Koreas, with their common culture and strong national...

The Korean Conundrum: America's Troubled Relations With North and South Korea.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Korean Conundrum: America's Troubled Relations With North and South Korea By Ted Galen and Doug Bandow New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 224 pp., $26.95 Separated at Birth is a smooth account of how the two Koreas, with...

Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good By Wm. Theodore De Bary Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004, 272 pp., $24.95 De Bary, arguably the West's leading scholar of classical Asian thought, has...

Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution By Roy Rowan Guilford: Lyons, 2004, 304 pp., $23.95 Shortly after being discharged from the U.S. Army after World War II, Rowan found...

Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets By Richard Robison and Vedi Hadiz New York: Routledge Curzon, 2004, 328 pp., $129.95 (paper, $39.95) In this information-packed and theoretically...

Twenty-First Century India: Population, Economy, Human Development, and the Environment.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Twenty-First-Century India: Population, Economy, Human Development, and the Environment By Edited by Tim Dyson, Robert Cassen, and Leela Visaria New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 438 pp., $135.00 This is both a valuable...

Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Beyond the Miracle: Inside the New South Africa By Allister Sparks Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, 384 pp., $32.50 What remains of the apartheid legacy and in what direction is the Republic of South Africa headed today?...

Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation?(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? By James L. Gibson New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004, 488 pp., $47.50 What remains of the apartheid legacy and in what direction is the Republic of South Africa...

Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa By Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2004, 269 pp., $32.95 What remains of the apartheid legacy and in what direction is the...

In Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... In Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order By Deepak Lal New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 304 pp., $26.95 The thesis of Lal's provocative contribution to the debate on empire, globalization, and U.S. power is that empire,...

Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Ghana's New Christianity: Pentecostalism in a Globalising African Economy By Paul Gifford Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004, 216 pp., $60.00 (paper, $24.95) A religious revival is taking place in sub-Saharan Africa, with...