Foreign Affairs articles from March 1994

Foreign Affairs archives from March 1994

A call for sacrifice: the co-responsibility of the West. (to former Soviet-bloc countries)
March 1, 1994... Four years after the fall of communism, it can be said without much exaggeration that this momentous historical event has caused the democratic West some major headaches. For all we know, many a Western politician may occasionally wonder, in...

Closing the nuclear umbrella. (Life after Proliferation)
March 1, 1994... The recent crisis over North Korea's nuclear program is merely the latest evidence that the global nonproliferation regime, symbolized by the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), is inexorably breaking down. Although U.S. concessions may...

The only credible deterrent. (Life after Proliferation)
March 1, 1994... The success of even an economic cripple like North Korea in building nuclear weapons demonstrates that the Clinton administration's nonproliferation policy is doomed. The policy ignores the obvious: the spread of nuclear weapons and the means...

Russian reform is dead: back to central planning.
March 1, 1994... The political rearrangement in Russia that began with the attrition of reform forces in mid-1992 has come to an end. The January departure from government of economic and political reformers Yegor Gaidar, Boris Fyodorov and Ella Pamfilova...

Competitiveness: a dangerous obsession.
March 1, 1994... IN JUNE, 1993, Jacques Delors made a special presentation to the leaders of the nations of the European Community, meeting in Copenhagen, on the growing problem of European unemployment. Economists who study the European situation were curious...

Confronting backlash states. (Debate)
March 1, 1994... THE END of the Cold War and the emergence of newly independent states in eastern Europe have the potential to enlarge dramatically the family of nations now committed to the pursuit of democratic institutions, the expansion of free markets, the...

The illogic of dual containment. (US Middle East policy) (Debate)
March 1, 1994... IF THERE IS ONE PART OF THE WORLD where the Clinton administration cannot be accused of lacking a clear foreign policy, it is the Persian Gulf. The administration has identified both Iraq and Iran as significant threats to America's interests...

The premature partnership. (US and Russia)
March 1, 1994... FOR NEARLY 45 difficult years the United States pursued a remarkably consistent policy toward the Soviet Union. On the level of grand strategy, that policy was defined as containment of both Soviet geopolitical and ideological ambitions. The...

The Russian 'mafiya.' (organized crime)
March 1, 1994... ORGANIZED CRIME IS the most explosive force to emerge from the wreckage of Soviet communism. The so-called Russian mafiya has undermined reform, spawned extraordinary levels of violence in major cities, and helped fuel a growing...

Making regionalism safe. (international trade)
March 1, 1994... THE ANSWERS to two great questions will soon set the direction of the world economy. One: Will the industrialized democracies cooperate to sustain an open, market-oriented world trade and financial order? To do so, they must rise above the...

Culture is destiny: a conversation with Lee Kuan Yew. (Singapore's Senior Minister) (Interview)
March 1, 1994... "ONE OF THE ASYMMETRIES of history,"wrote Henry Kissinger of Singapore's patriarch Lee Kuan Yew, "is the lack of correspondence between the abilities of some leaders and the power of their countries." Kissinger's one time boss, Richard Nixon,...

The Most Powerful Bank: Inside Germany's Bundesbank.
March 1, 1994... The Most Powerful Bank: Inside Germany's Bundesbank. BY DAVID MARSH. New York: Times Books, 1993 331 PP. $25.00. Three to four decades ago, it was commonplace to speak about the marked difference between Great Britain, which had a deeply...

The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, 4 vols.
March 1, 1994... All political debates oversimplify. American debates about foreign policy oversimplify more than most. Ever since F.D.R., all presidents have branded their opponents "isolationists." Critics of presidents have styled themselves "the peace...

War and the Rise of the Nation-State.
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Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change.
March 1, 1994... Ideas & Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change. EDITED BY JUDITH GOLDSTEIN AND ROBERT O. KEOHANE. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993, 308 pp. $37.50 (paper, $14.95). Only a social scientist could ever have believed...

The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy.
March 1, 1994... The Domestic Bases of Grand Strategy. EDITED BY RICHARD ROSECRANCE AND ARTHUR A. STEIN. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993, 230 pp. $36.50 (paper, $13.95). Like the Goldstein-Keohane volume above, this book is evidence of the fading of...

Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics.
March 1, 1994... Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics. EDITED BY PETER B. EVANS, HAROLD K. JACOBSON AND ROBERT D. PUTNAM. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, 490 pp. $50.00 (paper, $15.00). Providing a somewhat...

Ethnonationalism: A Quest for Understanding.
March 1, 1994... Ethnonationalism: A Quest for Understanding. BY WALKER CONNOR. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 226 pp. $14.95 (paper, $11.95). This collection of eight essays published over a 25-year period by one of the leading scholars of...

Nation Against State: A New Approach to Ethnic Conflicts and the Decline of Sovereignty.
March 1, 1994... Nation Against State: A New Approach to Ethnic Conflicts and the Decline of Sovereignty. BY GIDON GOTTLIEB. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993, 148 pp. $14-95 (paper). Both realism and the Westphalian system of sovereign...

Protecting the Dispossessed: A Challenge for the International Community.
March 1, 1994... Protecting the Dispossessed: A Challenge for the International Community. BY FRANCIS M. DENG. Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1993, 175 PP. $26.95 (paper, $9-95). This book, written by a former Sudanese diplomat and U.N. human...

Ethnic Conflict and International Security.
March 1, 1994... Ethnic Conflict and International Security. EDITED BY MICHAEL E. BROWN. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993, 276 PP. $42.50 (paper, $14.95). This volume, part of the growing literature on ethnic conflict, is a collection of essays...

Ultimate Security: The Environmental Basis of Political Stability.
March 1, 1994... Ultimate Security: The Environmental Basis of Political Stability. BY NORMAN MYERS. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993, 308 pp. $25.00. This book seeks to present environmental concerns as security concerns in a way that will be...

We All Los the Cold War.
March 1, 1994... We All Lost the Cold War. BY RICHARD NED LEBOW AND JANICE GROSS STEIN. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 521 pp. $35.00. This book is built around two detailed case studies of classic Cold War crises, the 1962 Cuban Missile...

On Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures, 1993.
March 1, 1994... On Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures, 1993. EDITED BY STEPHEN SHUTE AND SUSAN HURLEY. New York: BasicBooks, 1993, 262 pp. $25.00. This is a collection of lectures by seven renowned contemporary philosophers invited to Oxford to...

International Peacekeeping.
March 1, 1994... International Peacekeeping. By PAUL F. DIEHL. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 211 pp. $36.50. This readable volume was written before the various peacekeeping debacles of 1993 in Somalia and Haiti, but its analysis...

International Human Rights.
March 1, 1994... International Hum an Rights. BY JACK DONNELLY. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993, 206 pp. $39-95 (paper, $12-95). A useful primer on human rights for college courses, this book covers the history of human rights as a foreign policy issue, the...

21st Century Capitalism.
March 1, 1994... 21st Century Capitalism. BY ROBERT HEILBRONER. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1993, 175 pp. $17.95. Its title notwithstanding, Heilbroner's ruminating essay is not really about the 21st century. Its author is fascinated by the history of...

Capitalism vs. Capitalism: How America's Obsession with Individual Achievement and Short-Term Profit Has Led It to the Brink of Collapse.
March 1, 1994... Capitalism vs. Capitalism: How America's Obsession with Individual Achievement and Short-Term Profit Has Led It to the Brink of Collapse. BY MICHEL ALBERT. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993, 260 pp. $25.95. Its title...

The Privatization Process in Central Europe.
March 1, 1994... The Privatization Process in Central Europe. BY ROMAN FRYDMAN AND OTHERS. New York: Oxford University Press/Budapest: Central European University Press, 1993, 262 pp- $59.00 (paper, $14.95). Shifting business enterprise from state to...

The Misunderstood Economy: What Counts and How to Count It.
March 1, 1994... The Misunderstood Economy: What Counts and How to Count It. BY ROBERT EISNER. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1994, 213 pp. $22-95 Eisner has written a primer on several significant areas of recent macroeconomic debate in the United...

Economic Growth in the World Economy: Symposium 1992.
March 1, 1994... Economic Growth in the World Economy: Symposium 1992. EDITED BY HORST SIEBERT. Kiel: Institut flit Weltwirtschaft an der Universitat Kiel, 1993, 289 pp- $65.00. The determinants of economic growth have long been a staple interest of...

A History of Warfare.
March 1, 1994... A History of Warfare. BY JOHN KEEGAN. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993, 432 pp. $27.50. John Keegan, a renowned military historian known for The Face of Battle, a superb study of combat in the Western world, and more recently his excellent...

The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard.
March 1, 1994... The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard. BY JAMES G. BURTON. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1993, 306 pp. $23-95. Burton, a rising star in the Air Force, made his mark--and ended his career-- in the testing and evaluation...

After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam.
March 1, 1994... After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnarn. BY RONALD H. SPECTOR. NewYork: The Free Press, 1993, 390 pp. $24.95 Spector, one of the country's leading military historians, served as a field historian in Vietnam in 1968--the year this book...

The Middle East Military Balance 1992-1993.
March 1, 1994... The Middle East Military Balance 19921993. BY SHLOMO GAZIT, ZE'EV EYTAN AND AMOS GILBOA. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993, 514 PP. $82.00. The standard for handbooks on the military holdings of various countries is, of course, the annual...

International Military and Defense Encyclopedia, 6 vols.
March 1, 1994... International Military and Defense Encyclopedia. 6 vols. EDITED BY TREVOR N. DUPUY. Washington: Brassey's, 1993, 2,132 pages.$1,250.00. Unless you are independently wealthy or have an unusually generous expense account, the question here...

Getting It Right: American Military Reforms After Vietnam to the Gulf War and Beyond.
March 1, 1994... Getting It Right: American Military Reforms After Vietnam to the Gulf War and Beyond. BY JAMES F. DUNNIGAN AND RAYMOND M. MACEDONIA. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993, 320 PP. $23.00. Dunnigan, a commercial war-gamer and military...

Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism.
March 1, 1994... Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism. BY GREGORY STOCK. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993, 365 pp. $23.00. A breathless, copiously illustrated exposition that brings together a bewildering array of...

Guarding the Guardians: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States.
March 1, 1994... Guarding the Guardians: Civilian Control of Nuclear Weapons in the United States. BY PETER DOUGLAS FEAVER. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992, 261 pp. $34.50 Not withstanding its overly formal structure (complete with dependent and...

Perilous Options: Special Operations as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy.
March 1, 1994... Perilous Options: Special Operations as an Instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy. BY LUCIEN S. VANDENBROUCKE. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 247 pp. $35.00. A commendable study of four attempts by the United States to use the coup de...

America's Military Revolution: Strategy and Structure after the Cold War.
March 1, 1994... America's Military Revolution: Strategy and Structure after the Cold War. BY WILLIAM E. ODOM. Lanham: The American University Press, 1993, 186 pp $22-95. Odom, the scholarly former director of the National Security Agency, has written a...

James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age.
March 1, 1994... James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age. BY JAMES HERSHBERG. NewYork: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993, 948 pp. $35.00. "Conant operated at the crossroads of America's power elite," James Hershberg, the coordinator of...

Losing Our Souls: The American Experience in the Cold War.
March 1, 1994... Losing Our Souls: The American Experience in the Cold War. BY EDWARD PESSEN. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1993, 255 pp. $24-95. Edward Pessen, a professor of history at Baruch College, died in December 1992, shortly after delivering the manuscript...

The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War.
March 1, 1994... The Devil We Knew:Americans and the Cold War. BY H.W. BRANDS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 243 pp. $25.00. Historian H. W. Brands of Texas A&M University writes that "the fundamental question addressed in this book is: Why did...

A Democracy at War: American's Fight at Home and Abroad.
March 1, 1994... A Democracy at War:America's Fight at Home &Abroad in World War II. BY WILLIAM O'NEILL New York: The Free Press, 1993, 480 pp. $24.95. A familiar story, told here as well as, if not better than, it has ever been done before. William...

Power and Peace: The Diplomacy of John Foster Dulles.
March 1, 1994... Power and Peace: The Diplomacy of John Foster Dulles. BY FREDERICK W. MARKS III. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1993, 266 pp. $49-95. Who made foreign policy in the 1950s, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles or President Dwight Eisenhower?...

Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers.
March 1, 1994... Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers. BY DAVID M. BARRETT. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993, 279 PP. $35.00. It is commonly thought that Lyndon Johnson had a very narrow set of advisers on Vietnam, all...

The Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq.
March 1, 1994... The Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq. BY ALAN FRIEDMAN. New York: Bantam Books, 1993, 455 PP. $23.95. Investigative reporter Alan Friedman, an American who is a prize-winning correspondent for...

Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud.
March 1, 1994... Stanley Hoffmann is substituting for our regular reviewer in this section, Fritz Stern, who will return next issue. --- The Editors Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience, Victoria to Freud. BY PETER GAY. New York: W. W....

German Unification in the European Context.
March 1, 1994... German Unification in the European Context. BY PETER MERKL AND SERJOACHIM GLAESSNER. University Park: Pennsylvannia State University Press, 1993, 448 pp. $65.00 (paper, $18.95). A solid account of the events that led to the reunification of...

The National Question in Europe in Historical Context.
March 1, 1994... The National Question in Europe in Historical Context. EDITED BY MIKULAS TEICH AND ROY PORTER. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993,343 PP. $69.95 (paper, $17.95). A study of the "national question" in 12 European countries--from...

France and EC Membership Evaluated.
March 1, 1994... France and EC Membership Evaluated. EDITED BY FRANCOIS-GEORGES DREYFUS, JACQUES MORIZET AND MAX PEYRARD. NewYork: St. Martin's Press, 1993, 253 PP. $49.95. In a series of books that examine the effects of EC membership for several states,...

Eisenhower, Kennedy and the United States of Europe.
March 1, 1994... Eisenhower, Kennedy and the United States of Europe. by PASCALINE WINAND. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993, 432 pp. $45.00. Based on primary sources and extensive interviews, this book describes the views, influence and mixed achievements...

Germany and the European Community: Beyond Hegemony and Containment.
March 1, 1994... Germany and the European Community: Beyond Hegemony and Containment. EDITED BY CARL F. LANKOWSKI. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993, 237 PP- $49-95. A series of essays analyzing the attitudes of German interest groups and parties toward...

Europe: The Strange Superpower.
March 1, 1994... Europe: The Strange Superpower. BY DAVID BUCHAN. Brookfield: Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1993, 181 pp. $26.95. A sober and often incisive review of the "roads to Maastricht," the fiasco of the European Community in diplomacy and defense,...

Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico.
March 1, 1994... Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the the Fall of Old Mexico. BY HUGH THOMAS. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994, 798 pp. $30.00.

Cortes: The Great Adventure and the Fate of Aztec Mexico.
March 1, 1994... Cortes: The Great Adventure and the Fate of Aztec Mexico. BY RICHARD LEE MARKS. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993, 347 PP- $27.50. The 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the new World in 1992 provoked much...

Demographic Dynamics of the U.S.-Mexico Border.
March 1, 1994... Demographic Dynamics of the U. S. -Mexico Border. BY JOHN R. WEEKS AND ROBERTO HAM-CHANDE. El Paso: University of Texas, 1992, 318 pp. $20.00. John Weeks, a professor of sociology and director of the International Population Center at San...

Mexican-Americans: The Ambivalent Minority.
March 1, 1994... Mexican-Americans: The Ambivalent Minority. BY PETER SKERRY. New York: The Free Press, 193, 463 pp. $27.95. John Weeks, a professor of sociology and director of the International Population Center at San Diego State University, and Roberto...

Latino Voices: Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban Perspectives on American Politics.
March 1, 1994... Latino Voices: Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban Perspectives on American Politics. BY RODOLPHO O. DE LA GARZA AND OTHERS. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992, 232 pp. $29-95. John Weeks, a professor of sociology and director of the International...

The California-Mexico Connection.
March 1, 1994... The California-Mexico Connection EDITED BY ABRAHAM F. LOWENTHAL AND KATRINA BURGESS. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993, 364 PP. $45.00 (paper, $16.95). Today one out of every five Californians is of Mexican heritage, compared...

Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse.
March 1, 1994... CUBA ON THE BRINK: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse. BY JAMES G. BLIGHT, BRUCE J. ALLYN AND DAVID A. WELCH. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993, 448 pp. $27.50. A fascinating and extremely well annorated transcription of...

Public Opinion in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Controversy over Contra Aid.
March 1, 1994... Public Opinion in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Controversy over Contra Aid. EDITED BY RICHARD SOBEL. Lanham: Rowman, 1993, 240 PP. $52.50 (paper, $19-95). It is by now conventional wisdom that foreign and domestic policy are so interwoven that...

The Fate of Marxism in Russia.
March 1, 1994... The Fate of Marxism in Russia. BY ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, 250 pp $29.95. Oh, how he must have infuriated his more conservative colleagues on the Politburo! Yakovlev, the liberal spirit in Gorbachev's...

Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe.
March 1, 1994... Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in PostCommunist Eastern Europe. BY PAUL HOCKENOS. New York: Routledge, 1993, 332 PP. $25.00. There is no mistaking the scale and nature of the threat from the nationalist right represented in the carnage...

Russia 2010 and What It Means for the World.
March 1, 1994... Russia 2010 and What It Means for the World. BY DANIEL YERGIN AND THANE GUSTAFSON. New York: Random House, 1993,300 pp. $23.00. In a useful, clever book, Yergin and Gustafson help both the expert and the general reader think large thoughts...

The Elusive Balance: Power and Perceptions During the Cold War.
March 1, 1994... The Elusive Balance: Power and Perceptions during the Cold War. BY WILLIAM CURTIS WOHLFORTH. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993, 317 PP. $39.50 (paper, $16.95). Wohlforth uses the vast, nearby, now finished postwar conflict between the...

Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics.
March 1, 1994... Red Sunset: The Failure of Soviet Politics. BY PHILIP G. ROEDER. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993, 317 pp. $49.50 (paper, $16.95). This is fashionable political science theory applied to what will surely be one of the great...

The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe.
March 1, 1994... The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. BY GALE STOKES. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 319 PP. $25.00. This is the first history of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe done by a...

Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War.
March 1, 1994... Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War. BY BENNY MORRIS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 451 pp. $39-95. Benny Morris is decidedly not a "postmodernist" historian...

Women and Gender in Islam.
March 1, 1994... Women and Gender in Islam. BY LEILA AHMED. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992, 296 pp. $32.50 (paper, $15.00). Among the volumes now being published about Islam, this book stands out as particularly original, insightful and sensitive....

Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza.
March 1, 1994... Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza. BY IAN S. LUSTICK. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993, 576 pp. $37.50. In a major study that moves between path-breaking...

Americans and the Palestinian Question: The U.S. Public Debate on Palestinian Nationhood, 1973-1988.
March 1, 1994... Americans and the Palestinian Question: The U.S. Public Debate on Palestinian Nationhood, 1973-1988. BY MARIANNE VAN LEEUWEN. Atlanta: Editions Rodopi B.V., 1993, 545 PP. $97.00 (paper). A Dutch researcher has produced a study that is of...

Islam and the West.
March 1, 1994... Islam and the West. BY BERNARD LEWIS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 217 pp. $25.00. With this collection of previously published essays, the author pulls together his thoughts on the relations between Islam and the West....

The Middle East after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait.
March 1, 1994... The Middle East after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait. EDITED BY ROBERT O. FREEDMAN. Gainesville: University Press of florida, 1993,374 PP. $49-95 (paper, $19-95). After each major event in the Middle East, Robert Freedman convenes a conference...

Riding the Tiger: The Middle East Challenge After the Cold War.
March 1, 1994... Riding the Tiger: The Middle East Challenge After the Cold War. EDITED BY PHEBE MARR AND WILLIAM LEWIS. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993, 253 pp- $55.00 (paper, $16-95). An early and generally successful effort to assess the impact of the end...

The Politics of Miscalculation in the Middle East.
March 1, 1994... The Politics of Miscalculation in the Middle East. BY RICHARD B. PARKER. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993, 273 PP. $45.00 (paper, $17.95). A former diplomat with a wealth of experience in the Middle East has set out to explain...

Saudi Arabia: Government, Society and the Gulf Crisis.
March 1, 1994... Saudi Arabia: Government, Society and the Gulf Crisis. BY MORDECHAI ABIR. New York: Routledge, 1993, 269 pp. $49.95. Partly a revision of an earlier book on Saudi Arabia and partly a new analysis of the impact of the gulf crisis on the...

State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East.
March 1, 1994... State, Power & Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East. BY RODGER OWEN. New York: Routledge, 1992, 302 pp. $55.00 (paper, $18.95). One commonly held image of the Middle East is that it is a region in turmoil where only fools would...

Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States.
March 1, 1994... Oil Monarchies: Domestic and Security Challenges in the Arab Gulf States. BY F. GREGORY GAUSE III. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1994, 217 PP- $16-95. Ever since the dust settled after Desert Storm, an assessment of how the...

Whither Israel? The Domestic Challenge.
March 1, 1994... Whither Israel? The Domestic Challenges. EDITED BY KEITH KYLE AND JOEL PETERS. New York: I.B. Tauris, 1993, 292 pp. An excellent collection of original essays on the problems confronting Israeli society. The change of government in mid-1992...

Deng Xiaoping: And the Making of Modern China.
March 1, 1994... Deng Xiaoping: And the Making of Modern China. BY RICHARD EVANS. New York: Viking, 1994, 327 PP. $27-95. Despite the scarcity of reliable information about Chino's supreme leader, the enormous difficulty of gaining access to key documents,...

The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China.
March 1, 1994... The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China. BY SUSAN L. SHIRK. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, 399 PP. $48.00 (paper, $15.00). A political scientist seeks to explain Deng Xiaoping's success and Mikhail Gorbachev's...

The Rise of China: How Economic Reform Is Creating a New Superpower.
March 1, 1994... The Rise of China: How Economic Reform Is Creating a New Superpower. BY WILLIAM H. OVERHOLT. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993,399 pp. $23.00. The great strength of this incisive and provocative analysis of the Chinese reform process...