Foreign Affairs articles from March 1993

Foreign Affairs archives from March 1993

The future of the Balkans: an interview with David Owen. (co-chairman of Conference on the Former Yugoslavia) (Interview)
March 22, 1993... THE BALKAN WAR has been underway for almost two years. It began on a large scale in the summer of 1991 as a war between Serbs in Croatia, assisted by the Yugoslavian government in Belgrade, and the government of Croatia, which seceded from the...

The end of Japan, Inc.? An economic monolith fractures.
March 22, 1993... JAPAN, INC. is in disarray. Individual Japanese companies compete just as aggressively as before on the world market. But no distinctive Japanese policy exists any more, least of all in economics. Instead short-term fixes and panicky reactions...

The mosque and the temple: the rise of fundamentalism. (India)
March 22, 1993... TODAY, everywhere one looks in India one sees political deterioration and religious turmoil. In the northeast, in the state of Assam, the Hindus are trying to expel hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants who have been streaming in from...

The diminished giant syndrome: how declinism drives trade policy.
March 22, 1993... THE PERCEPTION, far exceeding the reality, of American decline is having subtly harmful consequences for U.S. international economic policy. The curse of declinism, manifest from the mid-1980s but contained by the Bush administration, was...

What Green Peril? (fear of Islam)
March 22, 1993... FROM HOME AND ABROAD voices have begun to counsel the Clinton administration that with communism's death, America must prepare for a new global threat--radical Islam. This specter is symbolized by the Middle Eastern Muslim fundamentalist, a...

The challenge of radical Islam.
March 22, 1993... Islam's New Battle Cry IN APRIL 1991 an unusual meeting was held in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. For four days, leading Islamic politicians and intellectuals from 55 countries and three continents met to draft a common strategy to...

Russia's rough road to capitalism.
March 22, 1993... Metamorphosis of an Old Debate? THE CONTROVERSY OVER how to bring capitalism to Russia mirrors an argument of 100 years ago between revolutionary Marxists and agrarian socialists. In 1899, a revolutionary approach to destroying feudalism...

Russia's work ethic.
March 22, 1993... Have They Forgotten How to Work? OPTIMISTS LOOK to the market and democratic pluralism as the motors for driving Russia, the great outsider, back into the fold of "normal" economic and political development. Seeking aid and investment...

The rise of the region state.
March 22, 1993... The Nation State Is Dysfunctional THE NATION STATE has become an unnatural, even dysfunctional, unit for organizing human activity and managing economic endeavor in a borderless world. It represents no genuine, shared community of...

California's foreign policy.
March 22, 1993... The World's Eighth-largest Nation OF COURSE it seems absurd to think of a state having a foreign policy. "The Constitution," wrote the legal scholar Edward S. Corwin, "is an invitation to struggle for the privilege of directing American...

The secrets of Castro's staying power. (Cuban President Fidel Castro)
March 22, 1993... How Cuban Communism Survives SHORTLY AFTER the fall of the Berlin Wall it became common in Washington and Miami to bet on the date that Fidel Castro would fall. Those bets were based on the premise that the Cuban regime could not...

The fate of the Kurds. (Middle East)
March 22, 1993... Kurdistan: Raised Hopes, Empty Promises THE DILEMMA of the Kurds in the Middle East can be put off no longer; it has now placed itself high on the agenda of Middle East policy. For the first time in modern history, control over the...

France in search of security.
March 22, 1993... Toward a New Transatlantic Pact THE END of the Cold War calls for redefining major countries' ranks and roles. That challenge is most painful for two nations--the United States and France. The two countries were the great beneficiaries...

Salvaging the G-7. (Group of Seven industrial nations)
March 22, 1993... Building a Post-Cold War Architecture WITH THE COLLAPSE of the Soviet Union a critical test facing the world is whether the liberal democratic states can build cooperative relations in the absence of a unifying threat. The answer so far...

Reducing nuclear danger.
March 22, 1993... A Dramatically New Situation TWO ENORMOUS EVENTS of recent years have opened the way for effective worldwide action against the danger of nuclear weapons. The first is the end of the Cold War and Soviet communism. The second is the...

The decline and fall of almost everything: Paul Kennedy peers into the 21st century. ('Preparing for the Twenty-First Century')
March 22, 1993... PREPARING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. The most significant book on international affairs published in the late 1980s was Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of The Great Powers. The magnum opus of a distinguished diplomatic and strategic...

Preparing for the Twenty-First Century.
March 22, 1993... The most significant book on international affairs published in the late 1980s was Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of The Great Powers. The magnum opus of a distinguished diplomatic and strategic historian, it was also the exemplary statement...

Who is to rule Russia? (political conditions in Russia)(includes related article on staff of 'Foreign Affairs' magazine) (Editorial)
March 22, 1993... AT THIS WRITING the question of who will rule Russia remains in doubt. President Boris Yeltsin's resort to emergency rule by decree without closing down his opponents' parliamentary power base has subjected the country to a harrowing, perhaps...