Foreign Affairs articles from July 2004

Foreign Affairs archives from July 2004

A Global Power Shift in the Making - Is the United States Ready?
July 1, 2004... The transfer of power from West to East is gathering pace and soon will dramatically change the context for dealing with international challenges -- as well as the challenges themselves. Many in the West are already aware of Asia's growing...

Seeing the Forest - Conservation on a Continental Scale.
July 1, 2004... The Ndoki rainforest is nestled in the northeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, bordered on three sides by vast swamps. The Ndoki was long so inaccessible that its animals were naive of humans. In recent years, though, it...

Strengthening African Leadership - There Is Another Way.
July 1, 2004... Africa has long been saddled with poor, even malevolent, leadership: predatory kleptocrats, military-installed autocrats, economic illiterates, and puffed-up posturers. By far the most egregious examples come from Nigeria, the Democratic...

Beyond Kyoto.
July 1, 2004... the carbon challenge In 1997, more than 180 countries gathered in Kyoto, Japan, in search of a coordinated international response to global warming. The provisional agreement they reached appeared to mark a significant step forward. But...

The Myth Behind China's Miracle.
July 1, 2004... the phantom menace China's sudden rise as a global trading power has been greeted with a curious mixture of both admiration and fear. Irrational exuberance about the country's economic future has prompted investors to gobble up shares of...

History and the Hyperpower.
July 1, 2004... empire's new clothes Most historians cringe at talk of the "lessons of history." Trained as specialists and wary of sweeping comparisons, they flinch from attempts to make past events speak directly to current policy. They remind us of...

A Republican Foreign Policy.
July 1, 2004... Editor's note: This is the third in a series of commissioned essays on foreign policy concerns for the next president. the generational challenge The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, that killed nearly three thousand...

Saving Iraq From Its Oil.
July 1, 2004... escaping the resource curse As the United States, the United Nations, and the Iraqi Governing Council struggle to determine what form Iraq's next government should take, there is one question that, more than any other, may prove critical...

Containing Iraq: Sanctions Worked.
July 1, 2004... success disregarded The Bush administration's primary justification for going to war against Iraq last year was the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction (wmd) programs. But almost as soon as U.S. forces took...

Building Entrepreneurial Economies.
July 1, 2004... poor imitation The United States, using its own direct-aid programs and its influence over development agencies, has encouraged other nations to adopt the features and institutions of post-Cold War American capitalism. But this approach --...

China's Hidden Democratic Legacy.
July 1, 2004... a starting point for reform Ever since Deng Xiaoping began to undercut Mao Zedong's revolution in late 1978, halting and then attenuated political reform has been the hallmark of China's ruling Communist Party. Notwithstanding the tectonic...

Berlin to Baghdad - The Pitfalls of Hiring Enemy Intelligence.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Partners at the Creation: The Men Behind Postwar Germany's Defense and Intelligence Establishments. by james h. critchfield. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2003, 243 pp. $32.95. As the United States approached war with Iraq in early...

First Principals - Alexander Hamilton and the American Founders.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Alexander Hamilton. by ron chernow. New York: Penguin Press, 2004, 608 pp. $35.00. Readers' interest in American history tends to oscillate between two periods: the Civil War and the Revolution. We are currently well into a Revolutionary...

The Unsettled West - China's Long War on Xinjiang.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland. edited by s. frederick starr. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2004, 528 pp. $89.95. Xinjiang -- China's Muslim Far Northwest. by michael dillon. London: Routledge Curzon, 2003, 201 pp. $95.00. Wild West...

The Fire Last Time - Lessons From the Last Korean Nuclear Crisis.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Going Critical: The First North Korean Nuclear Crisis. by joel s. wit, daniel b. poneman, and robert l. gallucci. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2004, 448 pp. $32.95. This October marks the tenth anniversary of the Geneva Agreed...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... Kimberly Zisk Marten on Afghanistan; Mark Lawrence Schrad on Russia's population implosion; and John Mueller on Saddam's evasiveness warlords as stakeholders To the Editor: Kathy Gannon accurately describes the threat to human...