Foreign Affairs articles from July 2007

Foreign Affairs archives from July 2007

Turkey Rediscovers the Middle East.
July 1, 2007... HOME, SWEET HOME While the recent wrangling in Turkey between the generals and the Islamists has drawn attention to Turkey's domestic policies, a significant shift in the country's foreign policy has gone largely unnoticed: after decades...

Nigeria's Rigged Democracy.(election fraud)
July 1, 2007... FOUL PLAY The official results of Nigeria's elections last April showed overwhelming victories for the ruling party. The presidential winner, Umaru Yar'Adua, received 70 percent of the vote; his nearest opponent had 20 percent -- a margin...

HONOR ROLL.(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2007... To the Editor: Richard Holbrooke's excellent reflection on the heroic acts of some diplomats during the Holocaust ("Defying Orders, Saving Lives," May/June 2007) omitted the extraordinary accomplishments of James McDonald, who served as...

DEFENSE SPENDING.(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2007... To the Editor: Martin Feldstein argues that the Pentagon is "underfunded" ("The Underfunded Pentagon," March/April 2007). He writes convincingly that the United States can afford to spend more on its military, but his central premise --...

AN ACADEMIC DEBATE.(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2007... To the Editor: The recent article by William Brody on the topic of globalization in higher education ("College Goes Global," March/April 2007) outlines such a utilitarian view of education that it would have made Jeremy Bentham blush. The...

Better and Better: The Myth of Inevitable Progress.(The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... The Improving State of the World: Why We're Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet. By Indur M. Goklany: Cato Institute, 2007, 516 pp., $29.95 "Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better." That...

The Long Haul:Fighting and Funding America's Next Wars.(Of Men and Materiel: The Crisis in Military Resources)(The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Of Men and Materiel: The Crisis in Military Resources. Edited by Gary J. Schmitt and Thomas DonnellyAEI Press, 2007, 180 pp. $20.00. The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars. By Robert D. Hormats.Times Books, 2007, 368 pp. $27.50....

Entente Infernale: How 300 Years of Anglo-French Rivalry Shaped the World.(That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British From the Sun King to the Present. By Robert Tombs and Isabelle Tombs: Knopf, 2007, 816 pp., $40.00 Why read a long book on Anglo-French relations? Whatever the United Kingdom and France may have...

Seeing Red: Why Communism Really Failed.(Comrades! A History of World Communism)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Comrades!: A History of World CommunismBy Robert Service: Harvard University Press, 2007, 592 pp., $35.00 History has different levels, wrote the great French historian Fernand Braudel. There is, famously, the longue duree the slow, almost...

The Art of Peace: Bringing Diplomacy Back to Washington.(Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the World)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... Statecraft: And How to Restore America's Standing in the WorldBy Dennis Ross: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007, 384 pp., $26.00 Everything was so much clearer during the Cold War. The United States used its diplomatic, economic, and military...

Renewing American Leadership.
July 1, 2007... COMMON SECURITY FOR OUR COMMON HUMANITY At moments of great peril in the last century, American leaders such as Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John F. Kennedy managed both to protect the American people and to expand opportunity for...

Rising to a New Generation of Global Challenges.
July 1, 2007... WASHINGTON DIVIDED Less than six years after 9/11, Washington is as divided and conflicted over foreign policy as it has been at any point in the last 50 years. Senator Arthur Vandenberg once famously declared that "politics stops at the...

A New Deal for Globalization.
July 1, 2007... WAGES FALLING, PROTECTIONISM RISING Over the last several years, a striking new feature of the U.S. economy has emerged: real income growth has been extremely skewed, with relatively few high earners doing well while incomes for most...

Overhauling Intelligence.
July 1, 2007... INTELLIGENT REFORM Before World War II, the United States' defense, intelligence, and foreign policy apparatus were fragmented, as befitted a country with a limited role on the world stage. With U.S. entry into the war, interagency...

The Return of Authoritarian Great Powers.
July 1, 2007... THE END OF THE END OF HISTORY Today's global liberal democratic order faces two challenges. The first is radical Islam -- and it is the lesser of the two challenges. Although the proponents of radical Islam find liberal democracy...

Grand Strategy for a Divided America.
July 1, 2007... MIND THE GAP The United States is in the midst of a polarized and bruising debate about the nature and scope of its engagement with the world. The current reassessment is only the latest of many; ever since the United States' rise as a...

A False Choice in Pakistan.
July 1, 2007... A DANGEROUS BACKLASH Even before the dust had settled on 9/11, U.S. policymakers were well aware that Pakistan was at the center of the world's worst Islamist terrorist networks. The Bush administration quickly moved to persuade...