Foreign Affairs articles from July 2005

Foreign Affairs archives from July 2005

His Master's Voice?
July 1, 2005... By David S. Jackson et al. JUST THE FACTS David S. Jackson Sanford Ungar's allegation of politicization at the Voice of America (VOA) ("Pitch Imperfect," May/June 2005) is filled with errors and unsupportable accusations. He...

Preparing for the Next Pandemic.
July 1, 2005... FEAR ITSELF Dating back to antiquity, influenza pandemics have posed the greatest threat of a worldwide calamity caused by infectious disease. Over the past 300 years, ten influenza pandemics have occurred among humans. The most recent...

The Human-Animal Link.
July 1, 2005... ONE WORLD, ONE HEALTH In recent years, outbreaks of diseases such as avian flu, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the Ebola virus, and mad cow disease have frightened the public, disrupted global commerce, caused massive economic...

The Lessons of HIV/AIDS.
July 1, 2005... SECURITY AT STAKE If the deadly bird flu discussed in the previous three essays were ever to sweep across the world, the impact on national security would be obvious everywhere. Nations rich and poor would quickly recognize the...

Regime Change and Its Limits.
July 1, 2005... ARMED AND DANGEROUS Although a third of the "axis of evil" is now occupied by U.S. forces, the other two thirds -- North Korea and Iran -- remain clear threats to U.S. interests. Consider North Korea: in February 2005, Pyongyang announced...

Giving Justice Its Due.
July 1, 2005... THE MISSING PRINCIPLE With its ringing invocation of "the force of freedom," President George W. Bush's second inaugural address exemplified and updated the long- standing American belief that liberty is an intrinsic human good and that...

A Trade War with China?
July 1, 2005... THE EAGLE AND THE DRAGON Americans are increasingly disturbed by the growing economic clout of China. With Chinese growth rates consistently above nine percent, they accuse it of stealing U.S. jobs, of keeping the yuan undervalued by...

Antidumping: The Third Rail of Trade Policy.
July 1, 2005... NOT FAIR It did not take long for the newest class of U.S. senators to pledge its allegiance to one of the few trade policies that politicians of both parties overwhelmingly support. In February, seven of nine newly elected senators...

Europe's Angry Muslims.
July 1, 2005... AN AMERICAN CONCERN Fox News and CNN's Lou Dobbs worry about terrorists stealing across the United States' border with Mexico concealed among illegal immigrants. The Pentagon wages war in the Middle East to stop terrorist attacks on the...

How to Help Poor Countries.
July 1, 2005... GETTING DEVELOPMENT RIGHT The year 2005 has become the year of development. In September, at the UN Millennium Summit meeting of heads of state, in New York, leaders of wealthy nations will emphasize their commitment to deeper debt relief...

Addressing State Failure.
July 1, 2005... THE DANGER OF FAILED STATES In today's increasingly interconnected world, weak and failed states pose an acute risk to U.S. and global security. Indeed, they present one of the most important foreign policy challenges of the contemporary...

A Partnership for Central Asia.
July 1, 2005... ATTENTION DEFICIT? Despite near-constant warnings of imminent chaos, Afghanistan has come a long way since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001. Security has improved markedly, and the economy has stabilized. A national assembly has...

False Premises.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... To the Editor: In "Taking on Tehran" (March/April 2005), Kenneth Pollack and Ray Takeyh suggest that a "carrots and sticks" policy is the right way to deal with Tehran's nuclear ambitions. They correctly argue that the Iranian economy...

Sticks and Straws.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... To the Editor: Pollack and Takeyh correctly point out Iran's vulnerability to economic pressure. It was, after all, primarily a fear of referral to the UN Security Council and the possibility of follow-on sanctions that convinced Tehran to...

Pollack and Takeyh Reply.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... To the Editor: One of our article's key arguments is that Iran's profound economic vulnerabilities offer the United States a means of influencing Tehran's decision-making on key issues, particularly its quest for nuclear weapons. The...

False Hope.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... To the Editor: In "Mind the Gap" (March/April 2005), Robert Pozen augments popular fantasies about the integration of ten new members states into the European Union and the prospects for European growth. The hope that EU expansion...

Standards and Poor.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... To the Editor: In "Saving the World Bank" (May/June 2005), Sebastian Mallaby argues that "excessive rules on the environment, corruption, and the protection of indigenous peoples" are scaring middle-income countries away from doing...

Do Not Enter.(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2005... To the Editor: Fritz Stern's "Lessons from German History" (May/June 2005) contains a statement that lends itself to possible misunderstanding. Stern describes the United States as "the country that gave haven to German- speaking refugees...

How Scary Is the Deficit?
July 1, 2005... By Brad Setser et al. Our Money, Our Debt, Our Problem Brad Setser and Nouriel Roubini The U.S. current account deficit -- the gap between what the United States earns abroad and what it spends abroad in a year -- is on track to...

The Next Pandemic?
July 1, 2005... PROBABLE CAUSE Scientists have long forecast the appearance of an influenza virus capable of infecting 40 percent of the world's human population and killing unimaginable numbers. Recently, a new strain, H5N1 avian influenza, has shown all...

Occupational Hazards.(Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq. By Larry Diamond : Times Books, 2005, 384 pp., $25.00 In two years, Iraq has gone from being a rogue state to being an ailing, if not...

Counterterrorism in Retrospect.(Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism)(Book Review)
July 1, 2005... Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism. By Timothy Naftali. : Basic Books, 2005, 399 pp., $26.00 In its final report last summer, the 9/11 Commission recounted the failures of the Clinton and Bush...