Foreign Affairs articles from July 2009

Foreign Affairs archives from July 2009

Globalization in retreat: further geopolitical consequences of the financial crisis.(After the Crisis)
July 1, 2009... It is now clear that the global economic crisis will be deep and prolonged and that it will have far-reaching geopolitical consequences. The long movement toward market liberalization has stopped, and a new period of state intervention,...

Tamed tigers, distressed dragon: how export-led growth derailed Asia's economies.(After the Crisis)
July 1, 2009... Of all the unprecedented things that have happened during the global economic crisis, perhaps the most startling and ominous so far occurred in early 2009: shipping rates between southern China and Europe temporarily fell to zero dollars. As...

Yemen: progress and ambition.(Sponsored Section)(SabaFon in Yemen )
July 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Approaching nearly twenty years as unified republic, Yemen looks to the future with hope and ambition. Even as it faces difficulties, Yemen repositions itself as an up-and-coming investment market. It has experienced...

The Pentagon's wasting assets: the eroding foundations of American power.(Essays)(Essay)
July 1, 2009... THE MILITARY foundations of the United States' global dominance are eroding. For the past several decades, an overwhelming advantage in technology and resources has given the U.S. military an unmatched ability to project power worldwide. This...

Flipping the Taliban: how to win in Afghanistan.(Essays)
July 1, 2009... AFTER SEVEN years of the Bush administration's neglect and mismanagement of Afghanistan, President Barack Obama was prompt in ordering the deployment of 21,000 more U.S. troops. Over 55,000 U.S. soldiers will soon be on the ground there. The...

Tehran's take: understanding Iran's U.S. policy.(Essays)
July 1, 2009... ALTHOUGH A great deal has been written about the United States' policy toward Iran, hardly anything comprehensive has been produced about Iran's policy toward the United States. Given Washington's concerns that the United States faces "no...

Romania: new Europe beckons.(Sponsored Section)(Country overview)
July 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) since 2004, member of the European Union (EU) since 2007, holder of the presidency of the Central European Initiative in 2009, and with its sights set on...

The real war in Mexico: how democracy can defeat the drug cartels.(Essays)(Essay)
July 1, 2009... BRAZEN ASSASSINATIONS, kidnappings, and intimidation by drug lords conjure up images of Colombia in the early 1990s. Yet today it is Mexico that is engulfed by escalating violence. Over 10,000 drug-related killings have occurred since President...

The Russia file: how to move toward a strategic partnership.(Essays)
July 1, 2009... REVERSING THE collapse of U.S.-Russian relations is one of the great tests facing the Obama administration. Among the major powers, Russia is the hard case. And the stakes involved in getting U.S.-Russian relations right are high--much higher...

Pirates, then and now: how piracy was defeated in the past and can be again.(Essays)(Essay)
July 1, 2009... THE WORLD'S attention was riveted in April 2009 when Somali pirates tried to seize the Maersk Alabama, a U.S. cargo vessel delivering relief supplies to Africa. Although the crew was able to fight off the intruders, the pirates seized the...

The battle for Thailand: can democracy survive?(Essays)(Essay)
July 1, 2009... OVER THE past three years, Thailand has lived through a military coup, six prime ministers, and widespread civil unrest. The ongoing crisis grabbed headlines last year when protesters occupied two international airports, and it culminated this...

Africa's capitalist revolution: preserving growth in a time of crisis.(Essays)(Essay)
July 1, 2009... IN ONE of the great ironies of history, Africa may well emerge from the current global recession as the only region in the world that remains committed to global capitalism. While the tired industrialized nations of the West are nationalizing...

Can the right war be won? Defining American interests in Afghanistan.(In the Graveyard of Emipires: America's War in Afghanistan / The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One)(Book review)
July 1, 2009... In the Graveyard of Emipires: America's War in Afghanistan. BY SETH G. JONES. Norton, 2009, 432 pp- $27.9. The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One. BY DAVID KILCULLEN. Oxford University Press, 2009, 384 pp....

A Hegemon's coming of age: a brief history of U.S. foreign relations.(From Colony to Superpower: U S. Foreign Relations Since 1776)(Book review)
July 1, 2009... From Colony to Superpower: U S. Foreign Relations Since 1776. BY GEORGE C. HERRING. Oxford University Press, 2008, 1,056 pp. $35.00. Anyone who has written a one-volume history of U.S. foreign policy deserves the gratitude--and the...

India's fortune: the prospects of a country on the rise.(Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation)(Book review)
July 1, 2009... Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation. BY NANDAN NILEKANI. Penguin, 2009, 528 pp. $29.95. "Businessmen, after all, do not usually make good public intellectuals," writes Nandan Nilekani early in his book, as he recalls...

Which way is history marching? Debating the authoritarian revival.(Responses)
July 1, 2009... Democracy's Victory Is Not Preordained AZAR GAT Two recent articles in these pages--"The Myth of the Autocratic Revival" (January/February 2009) and "How Development Leads to Democracy" (March/April 2009)--have taken issue with my...

Get smart: combining hard and soft power.(Response)
July 1, 2009... In her confirmation hearings, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, "America cannot solve the most pressing problems on our own, and the world cannot solve them without America.... We must use what has been called 'smart power,' the...

Arms and influence at sea.(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2009... To the Editor: Robert Kaplan ("Center Stage for the Twenty-first Century," March/April 2009) correctly underscores the Indian Ocean's strategic importance. But in envisioning "dynamic great-power rivalry" between Beijing and New Delhi...

Reforming state.(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2009... To the Editor: J. Anthony Holmes ("Where Are the Civilians?" January/February 2009) makes a number of persuasive points concerning the military's domination of U.S. foreign policy. Indeed, fixing U.S. foreign policy requires a...

Logic, not lobbies.(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2009... To the Editor: We are troubled by the assertions made by John Newhouse ("Diplomacy, Inc.," May/June 2009) about NATO enlargement--an initiative in which we both played direct roles'---as well as by his broader thesis about the role of...

The necessary and the chosen.(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2009... To the Editor: I want to express my appreciation to Zbigniew Brzezinski for his generous review of my book War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars ("A Tale of Two Wars," May/June 2009). Praise from someone of...

The next top model?
July 1, 2009... To the Editor: David Victor, M. Granger Morgan, Jay Apt, John Steinbruner, and Katharine Ricke ("The Geoengineering Option," March/April 2009) date geoengineering to the twentieth century, but it has been an integral part of the landscape...