Foreign Affairs articles from July 2001

Foreign Affairs archives from July 2001

Compromised Command Inside NATO's First War.(Review)
July 1, 2001... REVIEW ESSAY Waging Modern War: Bosnia, Kosovo, and the Future of Combat. BY GENERAL WESLEY K. CLARK. New York: PublicAffairs, 2001, 479 pp. $30.00. As NATO's Supreme Commander during the air war over Kosovo, Wesley Clark should have...

Crisis in the Taiwan Strait?
July 1, 2001... TROUBLE ISLAND The April standoff on Hainan Island following the collision of a U.S. spy plane with a Chinese fighter jet was a striking reminder of how troubled the relationship remains between the world's most powerful country and its...

Finding Allies in the Back Yard - NAFTA and the Southern Cone.(North American Free Trade Agreement expansion to South America)
July 1, 2001... The United States -- preeminent but not hegemonic -- cannot maintain its global leadership without the cooperation of like-minded nations that share its interests and values. In fact, in the coming years, American preeminence will likely remain...

China's Coming Transformation.
July 1, 2001... THE MAIN EVENT Social forces unleashed by China's economic reform over the last 20 years are now driving inexorably toward a fundamental transformation of Chinese politics. Since the suppression of the 1989 student protests in Tiananmen...

Classic Diplomacy in the Information Age - Hubert Vedrine Explains French Foreign Policy.(Review)
July 1, 2001... REVIEW ESSAY France in an Age of Globalization. BY HUBERT VEDRINE and DOMINIQUE MOISI, translated by PHILIP H. GORDON. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2001, 190 pp. $16.95 (paper). In June 2000, France's foreign minister,...

Weapons Without Purpose? Nuclear Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era.(Review)
July 1, 2001... REVIEW ESSAY The Price of Dominance: The New Weapons of Mass Destruction and Their Challenge to American Leadership. BY JAN LODAL. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2001, 160 pp. $19.95 (paper). With the end of the Cold...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2001... Jake Sherman questions the new geography of conflict; Roger Kubarych explains why the trade deficit matters; Kathleen Christison defends the Palestinians; and others FAULTY FAULT LINES To the Editor: Michael Klare argues that...

Fool's Gold in Alaska.(oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)
July 1, 2001... THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL? Oil prices have fluctuated randomly for well over a century. Heedless of this fact, oil's promoters are always offering opportunities that could make money -- but on the flawed assumption that high prices will...

The Conscience of a Conservative - The Dangers of Dogmatism in U.S. Foreign Policy.(Review)
July 1, 2001... REVIEW ESSAY Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the 21st Century. BY HENRY KISSINGER. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001, 320 pp. $30.00. In the 1890s the young George Bernard Shaw earned his living as a music...

The Real Crisis Over the Atlantic.(United States and Europe)
July 1, 2001... RESPONSE Antony J. Blinken has denounced with talent and conviction what he calls "the false crisis over the Atlantic" (May/June 2001). Although he is correct in saying that a continued transatlantic alliance would be "good for the United...

The Missile Defense Debate.
July 1, 2001... TO DEPLOY OR NOT TO DEPLOY Well before the 2000 election, George W. Bush and his inner circle were clear on a few things, one of which was missile defense. If they won, it would become the centerpiece of national security policy, even if...

Globalization's Democratic Deficit - How to Make International Institutions More Accountable.
July 1, 2001... Seattle; Washington, D.C.; Prague; Quebec City. It is becoming difficult for international economic organizations to meet without attracting crowds of protesters decrying globalization. These protesters are a diverse lot, coming mainly from...

Iran in the Balance.
July 1, 2001... BACKLASH Soon after reformists won a landslide victory in Iran's February 2000 parliamentary elections, the conservative offensive began in earnest. One of the first victims was Saeed Hajjarian, a top strategist in the reform movement and...

Follow the Money.(globalization and financial crimes)
July 1, 2001... SECRETS AND LIES As the international financial system has expanded, so too have financial abuses -- money laundering, tax evasion, and rogue banking. Globalization is now changing the nature of these age-old problems, threatening to...