Foreign Affairs articles from July 1994

Foreign Affairs archives from July 1994

The urge for democracy: the Palestinian future.
July 1, 1994... A Palestinian state is slowly being born. It will not necessarily look like other states. It will probably not be fully independent. And it will only emerge after a carefully controlled transitional period. Nevertheless, the process of state...

Arafat's police state: the Palestinian future. (Yasir Arafat)
July 1, 1994... The projected Gaza-Jericho autonomy is only the beginning of the road for the Palestinians, not an end in itself. Amid the increased Israeli-Palestinian violence and the obstacles remaining after Israel withdraws from Gaza and the West Ban town...

Sidestepping dependency: the Palestinian future.
July 1, 1994... In the complex transfer of power between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization(PLO), the world's focus has been on the difficult, often violent issues of security that surround the creation of limited Palestinian autonomy in Gaza and...

Negotiating with the Chinese: or how not to kowtow. (trade agreements)
July 1, 1994... If international trade is such an undisputed good, why are there so many disputes in international trade? Nowhere is this paradox more acute than with China. Every encounter between U. S. and Chinese negotiators has been characterized by...

Where are the great powers? At home with the kids. (military policy)
July 1, 1994... During the Cold War as before it, local and regional conflicts were often instigated or at least encouraged and materially supported by rival great powers. Now, by contrast, the absence of functioning great powers is the cause of the world's...

How to defeat Serbia.
July 1, 1994... FIGHT FOR A PRINCIPLED PEACE THOSE WHOSE SOLE concern has been to keep the United States out of the Yugoslav conflict may view American policy over the past four years as successful. The rest of us--even those who had a hand in that...

Democracy and its discontents.
July 1, 1994... MORAL CRISES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE How should one make sense of the malaise that currently sours public opinion in the countries of Europe, in Japan and North America? It reveals itself most saliently in tremendous electoral...

Germany's choice.
July 1, 1994... A HISTORIC MOMENT The great foreign policy debate in Germany has only just begun. In fact, the very nature of the foreign policy actor--Germany--is still disputed. Is this a new Germany or just an enlarged Federal Republic? After the...

Peering into the future. (post-Cold War international relations)
July 1, 1994... INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATES AFTER THE COLD WAR As the Soviet Union, Germany and the Middle East have recently reminded us, no one knows the future. Yet, consciously or not, foreign policy makers constantly make predictions. Will a foreign...

The drug money maze.
July 1, 1994... CLOSING DOWN THE DIGITAL LAUNDRY Tax-free money, even $100 billion worth, can be a problem when it is generated by drug deals, bundled in bills of small denominations, laced with minuscule traces of cocaine and lying around one's house...

The rise of the nonprofit sector.
July 1, 1994... A GLOBAL |ASSOCIATIONAL REVOLUTION A striking upsurge is under way around the globe in organized voluntary activity and the creation of private, nonprofit or nongovernmental organizations. From the developed countries of North America,...

Beating back predatory trade.
July 1, 1994... CONFOUNDING THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM Contrary to widespread beliefs, relief from predatory foreign trade practices has played a major role in revitalizing key American industries in recent years. Five major American...

Media pervasiveness.
July 1, 1994... GLOBAL REACH AND PICTURE POWER The dramatic increase in live television reporting of international crises began just five years ago with the satellite coverage of the Tiananmen square demonstrations. CNN pioneered such real time coverage...

The Diplomats: 1939-1979.
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY GORDON A. CRAIG AND FRANCIS L. LOEWENHEIM. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 704 pp. $35.00. More than 40 years ago, Gordon Craig and Felix Gilbert edited a volume called The Diplomats: 1919-1939. In that still-valuable...

Schindler's List.
July 1, 1994... Discussions of the Holocaust often turn on two dominant issues. The first is grasping the nearly incomprehensible horrors of Nazi Germany's mass extermination campaign against Jews. The second, overshadowed by the monumental nature of the...

Global Engagement: Cooperation and Security in the 21st Century.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY JANNE E. NOLAN. Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1994, 623 pp. $39.95 (paper, $19.95). This massive tome seeks both to define the nature of security as it has changed in the post-Cold War period, and to outline the new...

Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY LORI FISLER DAMROSCH. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993, 403 pp. $17.95 (paper) Multilateralism was strongly promoted during the Cold War by those who felt the unilateral use of American power was both...

The Two Faces of National Interest.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY W. DAVID CLINTON. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1994, 278 pp. $35.00 (paper, $15-95). The author presents a well-informed and balanced discussion of the concept of national interest as it is used in international politics,...

Liberal Leadership: Great Powers and Their Challengers in Peace and War.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY MARK R. BRAWLEY. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993, 210 pp. $32.50. The central focus of this book, as of many others coming out of the academic subdiscipline of international political economy, is to explain the role of "liberal...

Religion: The Missing Dimension of Statecraft.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY DOUGLAS JOHNSTON AND CYNTHIA SAMPSON. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 337 pp. $35.00. For many years, religion was not taken seriously by students of foreign relations, who often failed to recognize the religious...

Women as National Leaders.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY MICHAEL A. GENOVESE. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1993, 241 pp. $46.00 (paper, $23.95). This interesting volume contains case studies of the careers of the handful of women who have emerged in recent years as national leaders:...

Diplomacy, Force and Leadership: Essays in Honor of Alexander George.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY DAN CALDWELL AND TIMOTHY J. MCKEOWN. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993, 322 pp. $65.00. These festschriften were written for two of the most distinguished elder statesme of the academic field of international relations, Alexander...

Ideas and Ideals: Essays on Politics in Honor of Stanley Hoffmann.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY LINDA B. MILLER AND MICHAEL JOSEPH SMITH. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993, 436 pp. $65.00. These festschriften were written for two of the most distinguished elder statesme of the academic field of international relations,...

A Multipolar Peace? Great-Power Politics in the Twenty-First Century.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY CHARLES W. KEGLEY, JR., AND GREGORY RAYMOND. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 278 pp. $39.95. The authors try to understand what international relations would look like in a future world of multipolarity, that is, a relatively equal...

Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY I.M.D. LITTLE, RICHARD N. COOPER, W. MAX CORDEN AND SARATH RAJAPATIRANA. New York: Osford University Press/Washington: The World Bank, 1993, 455 pp. $42.95. This book discusses the economic behavior performance of 18 developing...

Boom, Crisis, and Adjustment: The Macroeconomic Experience of Developing Countries.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY RICHARD J. BARNET AND JOHN CAVANAUGH. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994, 480 pp. $25.00. Growing production, widening markets and urbanization have been disrupting traditional life for over two centuries. The authors of this interesting...

Responding to Global Warming: The Technology, Economics and Politics of Sustainable Energy.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY PETER READ. Atlantic Highlands: Zed Books, 1994, 304 pp. $25.00 (paper). The author of this closely argued and somewhat technical but nonetheless readable book is a New Zealander trained both as an engineer and as an economist. He...

The Cooperative Edge: The Internal Politics of International Cartels.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY DEBORA L. SPAR. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994, $273 pp. $29.95. This book discusses four industries--diamonds, uranium, gold, and silver--suitable for international cartelization and the degree of cooperation that each has...

Iran's Strategic Intentions and Capabilities.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY PATRICK CLAWSON. Washington: National Defense University/Government Printing Office, 1994, 224 pp. $8.00 (paper). Clawson, an economist with special expertise in Middle Eastern affairs, has assembled an exceptionally talented team...

Technologies Underlying Weapons of Mass Destruction.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY THE U.S. CONGRESS OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1993, 263 pp. $15.00 (paper). The Office of Technology Assessment does some of the best writing on security-related technical issues in the United...

U.S. Army Field Manual 100-5: Fighting Future Wars.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY. McLean: Brassey's US), 1994, 172 pp. $20.00 (paper). This is a reprint of the U.S. Army's most important doctrinal manual. Of all the armed services, the Army cares most deeply about doctrine as an...

The Mesh and the Net: Speculations on Armed Conflict in a Time of Free Silicon.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY MARTIN C. LIBICKI. Washington: National Defense University/Government Printing Office, 1994, 127 pp. $5.00 (paper). The Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University has quietly become a center for...

And Weapons For All: How America's Multibillion-Dollar Arms Trade Warps Our Foreign Policy and Subverts Democracy at Home.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY WILLIAM D. HARTUNG. New York: HarperCollins, 1994, 341 pp. $23-00. The fist-pounding tone of the title reflects the temper of this book. The author sees nothing good in American arms sales, dismissing the foreign policy and industrial...

Nuclear Weapons Databook, vol. 5: British, French and Chinese Nuclear Weapons.
July 1, 1994... BY ROBERT S. NORRIS, ANDREW S. BURROWS AND RICHARD W. FIELDHOUSE. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994, 437 pp. $85-00 (paper, $34.95). The sponsors of this volume may hold views antithetical to those who view weapons procurement as vital to...

Clausewitz in English: The Reception of Clausewitz in Britain and America.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY CHRISTOPHER BASSFORD. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 293 pp. $45.00. Bassford produces here an able, scholarly examination of someone variously regarded as the most profound thinker on war and as the villainous creator of a...

The Proliferation Puzzle: Why Nuclear Weapons Spread (and What Results).(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY ZACHARY S. DAVIS AND BENJAMIN FRANKEL. London: Frank Cass, 1993, 356 pp. $37.50 (paper). An earnest and daunting collection of essays, most of which attempt to bring contemporary social science to bear on weapons proliferation....

The Icarus Syndrome: The Role of Air Power Theory in the Evolution and Fate of the U.S. Air Force.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY CARL H. BUILDER. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1994, 299 pp. $39.95. There is a sense in this book--captured in the title--of underlying Air Force insecurity about its role and capabilities. This may come as a surprise to...

War.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY LAWRENCE FREEDMAN. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 385 pp. $13.95 (paper). The college reader is a familiar work, and one usually disdained by those who have escaped the clutches of Social Sciences 17, "Conflict, Society...

Nixon: A Life.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY JONATHAN AITKEN. Washington: Regnery Publishing, 1994, 633 pp. $28.00. No politician is ever embarrassed by an excess of flattery--but Richard Nixon should have been by this one. This biography, published almost concurrently with...

Divided We Fall: Gambling with History in the Nineties.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY HAYNES JOHNSON. New York: W. W. Norton Company, 1994, 431 pp. $25.00. What stands out in this first assessment of the first year of the Clinton administration is how disinterested President Clinton is in foreign policy. Indeed, no...

Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy that Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY PETER SCHWEIZER. New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994, 300 pp. $22.00. Peter Schweizer, author of a previous book on industrial espionage, assigns credit for victory in the Cold War to CIA Director William Casey, Secretary of...

Polite Protestors: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s.
July 1, 1994... BY JOHN LOFLAND. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1994, 336 pp. $34.95. Activist and sociology professor John Lofland reveals, at least according to the dust jacket, the differences between the antiwar Vietnam-era protesters and the...

The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY TOM WELLS. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, 706 pp. $30.00. A history of the antiwar movement by a Berkeley-trained sociologist and activist, The War Within features painstaking research and an impressive breadth of...

The New Spain: From Isolation to Influence.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY KENNETH MAXWELL AND STEVEN SPIEGEL. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1994, 126 pp. $14.95 (paper). A splendidly compact account of Spain's spectacular transition from Francoism to a modern democracy. The obstacles were...

American Policy and the Reconstruction of West German, 1945-1955.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY JEFFRY M. DIEFENDORF, AXEL FROHN AND HERMANN-JOSEF RUPIEPER. New York: Cambridge University Press/Washington: German Historical Institute, 1993, 537 pp. $69.95. A collection of essays of varying quality by German and American...

The German Left: Red, Green and Beyond.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY ANDREI S. MARKOVITS AND PHILIP S. GORSKI. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 393 pp. $55.00. (paper, $16.95). Two young American academics try to assess the role and growth of the Greens in German life and politics. They see the...

The Rush to German Unity.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY KONRAD H. JARAUSCH. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 28o pp. $35.00. (paper, $14.95). A good piece of contemporary history by a German-born American historian. The book gives a quick survey of the rapidly changing scene in...

The United States and the New Europe, 1945-1993.
July 1, 1994... BY PETER DUIGNAN AND L. H. GANN. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1994, 3S7 pp. $54.95 (paper, $21.95). A rather complacent retelling of America's beneficent involvement with post-1945 Europe. The bulk of the book deals with the years after 1985. The...

Britain and European Unity, 1945-1992.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY JOHN W. YOUNG. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993, 217 pp. $39.95. A brief, narrowly conceived study of British policy toward Europe set in the context of Britain's overall decline. The author, a young British political scientist,...

D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY STEPHEN E. AMBROSE. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994, 655 pp. $30.00. A publisher's dream: on the 50th anniversary of one of the most dramatic military events in history, a commemorative volume, distinguished by the voices of the men...

The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY MARK DANNER. New York: Vintage Books, 1994, 304 pp. $12.00 (paper). Mark Danner subtitles his chilling account of the massacre of hundreds of men, women and children by the Salvadoran army's American-trained Atlacatl Battalion in...

Oil and Revolution in Mexico.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... By JONATHAN C. BROWN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, 453 pp. $40.00. An exhaustively documented and well-written book that reexamines many of the old notions about the impact of foreign capital on the modernization of...

Intervention: The United States and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1917.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... JOHN S. D. EISENHOWER. New York: W W. Norton & Company, 1993, 393 pp. $27.50. A timely reminder that not all current dilemmas confronting U.S. policymakers in Latin America are new or the result of the end of the Cold War. There is a much...

Report of the Chilean National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation, 11 vols.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... Notre Dame: Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame Press, 1993, 907 pp. $59.95 (paper, $29.95). The University of Notre Dame Press, with the support of the Ford Foundation, does a great service in making available to an...

The Heart that Bleeds: Latin America Now.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994, 288 pp. $23.00. Despite the overblown claims by David Remnick on the cover of this book, where he calls Alma Guillermoprieto Latin America's Orwell (The New Yorker writers should...

Ten years that Shook the World.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY VALERY BOLDIN. New York: Basic Books, 1994, 310 pp. $25.00. Fascinating as this book is, the reader would be mistaken to see in it more than a shadow of the truth. Boldin, once a Pravda journalist, then for more than a decade a key...

Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY RONALD GRIGOR SUNY. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1994, 200 pp. $35.00 (paper, $13.95). Here is the book of choice if one wants a succinct treatment of nationalism past and present in the former Soviet Union. Suny, a noted...

Special Tasks: The Memoirs of an Unwanted Witness - A Soviet Spymaster.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY PAVEL SUDOPLATOV AND ANATOLI SUDOPLATOV, WITH JERROLD L. AND LEONA P. SCHECTER. New York: Little, Brown, 1994, 519 pp. $24.95. "My Administration for Special Tasks," Sudoplatov begins, "was responsible for sabotage, kidnapping and...

The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY ADAM HOCHSCHILD. New York: Viking, 1994, 302 pp. $22.95. There is by now a vast cathedral of literature on the gulag--some of it meant to convey the unimaginable scale and monstrosity of it, more of it to tell of the extraordinary...

Return to Diversity.
July 1, 1994... BY JOSEPH ROTHSCHILD. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 299 pp. $38.00 (paper, $14.95). Rothschild underscores at the outset that he has written a basic general survey of east-central Europe in the twentieth century through the end...

The Shi'is of Iraq.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 312 pp. $35.00. This is a superb study of Iraq's Shia majority. Based on remarkable scholarship, the book brings to life a whole political community that has often been seen as a mere appendage...

From Abdullah to Hussein: Jordan in Transition.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY ROBERT B. SATLOFF. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 251 pp. $39.95. Early in 1957, John Foster Dulles expressed the view that "Jordan had no justification as a state." Thirty-seven years later, Jordan stands out as a...

The Norway Channel: the Secret Talks that Led to the Middle East Peace Accord.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY JANE CORBIN. New York. The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994, 213 pp. $22.00. This engaging account of the secret negotiations that resulted in the Oslo accord between Israel and the PLO has all the strengths of first-rate journalism, as...

Sandcastles: The Arabs in Search of the Modern World.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY MILTON VIORST. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994, 414 pp. $25.00 (paper) This is hardly the first book to try to portray the difficult encounter between Arab societies and the modern world. But it does stand out as a particularly...

Rules and Rights in the Middle East: Democracy, Law, and Society.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY ELLIS GOLDBERG, RESAT KASABA, AND JOEL MIGDAL. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993, 280 pp. $35.00 (paper, $17.50). Democracy and the Middle East are often thought to be like oil and water: they just do not seem to mix....

Israel's Nuclear Dilemma.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY YAIR EVRON. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994,312 pp. $39.95. One of Israel's leading strategic thinkers joins an important discussion with an eminently sensible book that asks how nuclear weapons will affect Middle East politics...

The Origins of the Second Arab-Israeli War: Egypt, Israel and the Great Powers, 1952-56.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY MICHAEL B. OREN. Portland: Frank Cass, 1993,199 pp. $40.00. Books on the Suez crisis Of 1956 are not in short supply. Even before the Israeli, American and British archival sources were available, Suez was the subject of lengthy and...

Iran's Economy Under the Islamic Republic.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY JAHANGIR AMUZEGAR. New York: I. B. Tauris, 1993,398 pp. $59.50. It would be surprising if a former minister of finance in the shah's regime did not have harsh criticisms to make of the economic record of the Islamic Republic. The...

A People Without a Country: The Kurds and Kurdistan.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY GERARD CHALIAND. New York: Olive Branch Press, 1993, 259 pp. $14.95 (paper). Kurds number about 15 million people, spread over the territories of five states. Despite a long history of struggling for autonomy and independence,...

Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY SERGEI N. GONCHAROV, JOHN W. LEWIS AND XUE LITAI. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993, 393 pp. $45.00. There are numerous studies of the process that led to Truman's decision to intervene in Korea. But there has been little...

The Political Economy of China's Financial Reforms: Finance in Late Development.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY PAUL BOWLES. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993, 206 pp. $49.95. In this extremely stimulating and controversial account of China's economic progress, the authors advocate a strong role for the government in directing financial reforms, a...

Keiretsu: Inside the Hidden Japanese Conglomerates.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY KENICHI MIYASHITA AND DAVID W. RUSSELL. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994,225 pp. $22.95. An American business journalist based in Japan and his Japanese counterpart deliver a wealth of information about the mammoth corporate alliances that...

Japan's International Agenda.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY YOICHI FUNABASHI. New York: New York University Press, 1994, 192 pp. $19.95. In this volume, a group of younger Japanese scholars led by Yoichi Funabashi, the prolific bureau chief of Asashi Shimbun in Washington, discuss ways in...

Korean Unification: Implications for Northeast Asia.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY AMOS A. JORDAN. Washington: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1993, 120 pp. $14.95 (paper). This volume is the result of two conferences sponsored by the Pacific Forum/CSIS in 1992 at which academics from the United...

Africa and the Disciplines: The Contributions of Research in Africa to the Social Sciences and Humanities.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... EDITED BY ROBERT H. BATES, V. Y. MUDIMBE AND JEAN O'BARR. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993, $14.95 (paper, $9.95). This is an important book despite not being wholly successful on its own terms. Its aim is to boost the status...

Chained Together: Mandela, De Klerk, and the Struggle to Remake South Africa.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY DAVID OTTAWAY. New York: Times Books, 1993, 291 pp. $25.00. A good journalist can look behind what's happening and see what's going on. From early 1990 until late 1992, Ottaway covered South Africa for the Washington Post with a fine eye...

The Debt Crisis in Africa.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY WAYNE E. NAFZIGER. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 287 pp. 38.50. These two solidly researched, accessible books join the growing literature on the political economy of African debt. Nafziger, an economist from Kansas...

A Blighted Harvest: The World Bank and African Agriculture in the 1980s.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY PETER GIBBON, KJELL J. HAVNEVIK AND KENNETH HERMELE. TRENTON: Africa World Press, 1993, 168 pp. 39-95 (paper, $14-95). These two solidly researched, accessible books join the growing literature on the political economy of African debt....

Against All Odds: A Chronicle of the Eritrean Revolution.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1994... BY DAN CONNELL. Trenton: Red Sea Press, 1993, 309 pp. $24-95. What happens to an African revolution nurtured on rigid Maoism, battered by 30 years of brutal warfare, divided into rival movements, bereft of external allies and ideologically...

The fight over competitiveness: a zero-sum debate? (several related responses to Paul Krugman essay)
July 1, 1994... Playing to Win CLYDE V. PRESTOWIZ, JR. Paul Krugman first achieved a measure of public recognition with a study of competition in the aircraft industry, which proved mathematically the potential efficacy of strategic--that is to...

Proving my point. (economist responds to criticism of his essay on competitiveness)
July 1, 1994... My article in the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs has obviously upset many people. Some of my critics claim that I misrepresented their position, that despite their insistent use of the word "competitiveness" they have never believed that...