Foreign Affairs articles from July 2006

Foreign Affairs archives from July 2006

THE ELUSIVE QUEST FOR REFORM.(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2006... To the Editor: Amartya Sen has provided a thoughtful and careful discussion of my book The White Man's Burden ("The Man Without a Plan," March/April 2006). To receive even qualified praise from so distinguished a source is an honor....

LEFT HOOK.(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2006... To the Editor: Foreign Affairs has recently published three essays that sought to explain Latin America's leftward shift. Let me offer another explanation: over the last 25 years, Latin America has experienced a disastrous economic...

LETTER OF THE LAW.(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2006... To the Editor: Daniel Byman's neglect of the legal aspects of targeted killings is astonishing ("Do Targeted Killings Work?" March/April 2006). His discussion of whether such acts are legal is limited to a single paragraph on the last...

BAD TRADE.(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2006... To the Editor: Alan Blinder tells us that the eventual dimensions of "offshore outsourcing" may be "staggering" ("Offshoring: The Next Industrial Revolution?" March/April 2006). He seems optimistic, however, that the U.S. economy will be...

What to Do in Iraq: A Roundtable.(administration of communal integrity)(Critical essay)
July 1, 2006... How to End It Larry Diamond In his trenchant analysis, Stephen Biddle ("Seeing Baghdad, Thinking Saigon," March/April 2006) argues that the escalating violence in Iraq is not a nationalist insurgency, as was the Vietnam War, but...

A Benign Revolution.(Hugo Chavez's presidency, economic development)
July 1, 2006... In Defense of Hugo Chavez In her recently released book, Friendly fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century, Latin America scholar Julia Sweig writes, "When U.S. elites -- in government, media, and the private...

Authentically Liberal.(How Democrats Can Defeat Terrorism and Win Elections)(The Good Fight: Why Liberals -- and Only Liberals -- Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again)(Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupid)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... How Democrats Can Defeat Terrorism and Win Elections The Good fight: Why Liberals -- and Only Liberals -- Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again. BY PETER BEINART. HarperCollins, 2006, 304 pp. $25.95. Politics Lost: How...

Present at the Stagnation.(China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy By MINXIN PEI : Harvard University Press, 2006, 306 pp., $45.00 Is China's Development Stalled? Minxin Pei thinks that China's transition from communism to democracy is...

The Crusade of Illusions.(The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present)(Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand Strategy)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy From 1940 to the Present By Christopher Layne : Harvard University Press, 2006, 320 pp., $29.95 The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy From 1940 to the Present. BY CHRISTOPHER LAYNE....

Empire Falls.(Lessons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power)(Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors)(Washington May Be Imperious, but It Is Not Imperial)(Book review)
July 1, 2006... Lessons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power By Edited by Craig Calhoun, Frederick Cooper, and Kevin W. Moore : New Press, 2006, 352 pp., $60.00 (paper, $19.95) Lessons of Empire: Imperial Histories and American Power. EDITED BY...

The India Model.(economic development)
July 1, 2006... AN ECONOMY UNSHACKLED Although the world has just discovered it, India's economic success is far from new. After three postindependence decades of meager progress, the country's economy grew at 6 percent a year from 1980 to 2002 and at 7.5...

India and the Balance of Power.(relations with United States)
July 1, 2006... WILL THE WEST ENGAGE? After disappointing itself for decades, India is now on the verge of becoming a great power. The world started to take notice of India's rise when New Delhi signed a nuclear pact with President George W. Bush in July...

America's New Strategic Partner?(nuclear nonproliferation agreement with India)
July 1, 2006... SEEING THE BIG PICTURE Last summer, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced that India and the United States had struck a deal for a far-reaching "strategic partnership." As part of the agreement, President George W. Bush broke with...

Will Kashmir Stop India's Rise?(economic development, India-Pakistan relations)
July 1, 2006... BREAKING AWAY Over the past several years, India's economic growth, diplomatic influence, and overall prestige have increased sharply. The country's new international profile adds a fresh dimension to its ongoing clash with Pakistan over...

When the Shiites Rise.(liberalism)
July 1, 2006... IRAQ THE MODEL The war in Iraq has profoundly changed the Middle East, although not in the ways that Washington had anticipated. When the U.S. government toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, it thought regime change would help bring democracy...

The End of the Bush Revolution.(George W. Bush's foreign policy)
July 1, 2006... A RETURN TO REALISM Reading over President George W. Bush's March 2006 National Security Strategy, one would be hard-pressed to find much evidence that the president has backed away from what has become known as the Bush doctrine. "America...

Russia Leaves the West.(United States-Russian relations)
July 1, 2006... THE END OF THE AFFAIR As President Vladimir Putin prepares to host the summit of the G-8 (the group of eight highly industrialized nations) in St. Petersburg in July, it is hardly a secret that relations between Russia and the West have...

The U.S. Military's Manpower Crisis.
July 1, 2006... BOOTS VERSUS BOMBERS Three hundred forty-five million dollars can, roughly speaking, buy one F-22 Raptor -- the U.S. military's new stealth fighter plane -- or pay the average annual cost of 3,000 soldiers (although it would cost far more...

Israel's New Strategy.(politics and policy)
July 1, 2006... THE END OF OCCUPATION Israeli politics and policy are undergoing a revolutionary transformation -- one of the most important developments in the nation's history. As dramatic as recent events have been, equally important is the emergence...

The End of French Europe?(foreign relations and post war reconstruction)
July 1, 2006... THINGS FALL APART On May 29 of last year, French voters rejected the draft of a new EU constitution in a nationwide referendum. Although not unexpected, their vote plunged the European Union into a long period of uncertainty. It also...

Transformational Leadership and U.S. Grand Strategy.(antiterrorism, national security policy)
July 1, 2006... MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE? George W. Bush likes to boast that he does not play "small ball." The Economist describes him as "obsessed by the idea of being a 'transformational' president: not just a status-quo operator like Bill Clinton but a...