Foreign Affairs articles from July 2002

Foreign Affairs archives from July 2002

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July 1, 2002... Attached, per our agreement, you will find the text for Foreign Affairs July/August 2002. In this issue, Foreign Affairs has obtained copyright for all of the articles. Therefore, we are providing all text, and any requests for...

American Primacy in Perspective.
July 1, 2002... FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH More than a decade ago, political columnist Charles Krauthammer proclaimed in these pages the arrival of what he called a "unipolar moment," a period in which one superpower, the United States, stood clearly above...

The Wrong War.
July 1, 2002... WHAT'S IN A NAME? Wars have typically been fought against proper nouns (Germany, say) for the good reason that proper nouns can surrender and promise not to do it again. Wars against common nouns (poverty, crime, drugs) have been less...

China's "War on Terror" : September 11 and Uighur Separatism.
July 1, 2002... In the wake of the September 11 attacks on the United States, China has launched its own "war on terror." Beijing now labels as terrorists those who are fighting for an independent state in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, which the...

Chapter 11 for Countries?
July 1, 2002... DISHONOR BEFORE DEBT Late in 2001, the new first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Anne Krueger, made a bold suggestion. Under certain conditions, she proposed, a government's international debt repayments should...

The Past as Prologue : An Imperial Manual.(The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power)
July 1, 2002... The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. BY MAX BOOT. New York: Basic Books, 2002, 448 pp. $30.00. The fact of American empire is hardly debated these days. Even those who fear and oppose it (in this country, the...

The Globalization Wars : An Economist Reports From the Front Lines.(Globalization and Its Discontents)
July 1, 2002... Globalization and Its Discontents. BY JOSEPH STIGLITZ. New York: W. W. Norton, 2002, 282 pp. $24.95. Joseph Stiglitz's memoirs of his years in Washington, D.C. -- first as chair of President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and...

Is Inequality Decreasing? : Debating the Wealth and Poverty of Nations.
July 1, 2002... BY THE NUMBERS In "Spreading the Wealth" (January/ February 2002), David Dollar and Aart Kraay make the provocative claim that global inequality has declined since 1975, mainly due to rapid growth in India and China, and that "globalizing"...

Is Southeast Asia the Second Front?
July 1, 2002... PHASE 1.5 In late January 2002, the Bush administration sent 660 U.S. troops to the Philippines, deploying them in the south of the archipelago to assist in hostage rescue and counterinsurgency operations. The move was widely heralded as...

Clash of Globalizations.
July 1, 2002... A NEW PARADIGM? What is the state of international relations today? In the 1990s, specialists concentrated on the partial disintegration of the global order's traditional foundations: states. During that decade, many countries, often those...

See No Evil : Why America Doesn't Stop Genocide.("A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide)
July 1, 2002... "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide. BY SAMANTHA POWER. New York: Basic Books, 2002, 640 pp. $30.00. The moral poverty of foreign policy is, along with war itself, one of the most enduring and intractable problems in...

India's House Divided : Understanding Communal Violence.(Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India)
July 1, 2002... Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India. BY ASHUTOSH VARSHNEY. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002, 384 pp. $45.00. India once stood tall in the annals of postcolonial nations. Beset by deep poverty, great...

Letters to the Editor.
July 1, 2002... Kurt Schuler and Martin Feldstein debate Argentina; Liam Anderson on invading Iraq; and others KEEPING ARGENTINA AFLOAT To the Editor: Martin Feldstein ("Argentina's Fall," March/April 2002) made a number of mistakes in his...

The Corporate Key : Using Big Business to Fight Global Poverty.
July 1, 2002... In recent months, world leaders -- including President George W. Bush and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan -- have proclaimed their determination to reduce global poverty. Such promises, however, have been made before, and past efforts to follow...

The Palestinian H-Bomb: Terror's Winning Strategy.
July 1, 2002... Never in Israel's history, to paraphrase Churchill, has so much harm been inflicted on so many by so few. Since the onset of the second intifada in late September 2000, dozens of exploding humans -- Palestinian H-bombs -- have rocked the Jewish...

A New Model Afghan Army.
July 1, 2002... AN UNEASY PEACE An unforeseen result of the U.S. military's stunning success in Afghanistan was the overnight suspension of that country's vicious, 23-year-old civil war. Afghanistan's future -- including whether it again degenerates into...

The View From Above : An Insider's Take on Clinton's Russia Policy.(The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy)
July 1, 2002... The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy. BY STROBE TALBOTT. New York: Random House, 2002, 480 pp. $29.95. Throughout his time in government, Strobe Talbott was rumored to go to bed as soon as duty permitted and rise as early as...

Ties That Bind.
July 1, 2002... RETHINKING U.S.-CHINA TRADE U.S.-China trade relations have been on a fast track since the two countries signed a historic trade agreement in November 1999. That accord culminated nearly 15 years of difficult negotiations and helped pave...

Failed States in a World of Terror.
July 1, 2002... THE ROAD TO HELL In the wake of September 11, the threat of terrorism has given the problem of failed nation-states an immediacy and importance that transcends its previous humanitarian dimension. Since the early 1990s, wars in and among...

Trouble in the Kingdom.
July 1, 2002... AT SEA IN THE DESERT Crown Prince Abdullah cut an impressive figure when he arrived in Crawford, Texas, in late April to meet with President George W. Bush. The man who has ruled Saudi Arabia ever since his half brother, King Fahd,...