Foreign Affairs articles from March 1995

Foreign Affairs archives from March 1995

From Grozny to Davos.(international current affairs)(Editorial)
March 1, 1995... As January gave way to February, snow blanketed the mountains of Europe. It added misery to the secessionist war in Chechnya and beauty to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Russian soldiers fought and died in Grozny while Russian...

The last ambassador: a memoir of the collapse of Yugoslavia.
March 1, 1995... In early 1989, shortly after I was confirmed as the new--and as it turned out the last--U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia, I sought out Lawrence Eagleburger. Eagleburger had been named deputy secretary of state for the incoming Bush administration...

Lessons of the next nuclear war.
March 1, 1995... THE DANGERS OF PROLIFERATION It Doesn't take a superpower to pose a nuclear threat. A small, poor country with a few nuclear explosives and the means to deliver them could wreak terrible damage on the United States. Even if never used, a...

America, a European power.
March 1, 1995... THE NEW SECURITY ARCHITECTURE President Clinton made four trips to Europe last year. This commitment of presidential time and attention underlines an inescapable but little-realized fact: the United States has become a European power in a...

The case against 'Europe.'(pan-Europe proponents)
March 1, 1995... The case against "Europe" is not the same as a case against Europe. Quite the contrary. "Europe" is a project, a concept, a cause: the final goal that the European Community (EC) has been moving toward ever since its hesitant beginnings in the...

Japan's invisible leviathan.(Ministry of Finance)
March 1, 1995... Perceptive Westerners may be forgiven a touch of cognitive dissonance in looking at the Japanese economy. They read daily that Japan has been badly damaged by a terrible economic slump, yet the evidence tells a different story. What are they to...

Russia's wounded military.
March 1, 1995... NOSTALGIA FOR CHECKPOINT CHARLIE Russia's armed forces, only a few years ago the vaunted Soviet juggernaut, are now in shambles. The failure of Soviet communism and the collapse of the Soviet state have left the Russian high command with...

Canada's continuing identity crisis.
March 1, 1995... THE PROBLEM THAT WON'T GO AWAY Foreign observers are often incredulous that Canada, with its long history of domestic tranquillity, heroism in war, and solidarity in the Western alliance, is again threatened by the secession of Quebec after...

On American principles.
March 1, 1995... At a large dinner given in New York in recognition of his ninetieth birthday, the author of these lines ventured to say that what our country needed at this point was not primarily policies, "much less a single policy." What we needed, he argued,...

Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals.
March 1, 1995... BY ERNEST GELLNER. London: Penguin, 1994, 225 pp. $27.g5. When the dissident East European intellectuals of the 1g70s and 1980S were trying to imagine what kind of community they wanted in place of communism, they turned back to the concept of...

The Vandals' Crown: How Rebel Currency Traders Overthrew the World's Central Banks.
March 1, 1995... BY GREGORY J. MILLMAN. New York: Free Press, 1995, 250 pp. $23.00. Until the early 1980s, there was a running dispute within the economics profession that descended to the level of a spectator sport. One side was eloquently represented byJohn...

Race and Culture: A World View.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY THOMAS SOWELL. New York: Basic Books, 1994, 331 pp. $2s.00. Thomas Sowell here gives an international perspective to themes from earlier works like Ethnic America and Markets and Minorities. Arguing that major economic and social differences...

The Boundaries of Citizenship: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the Liberal State.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY JEFF SPINNER. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, 232 pp. $39.95. Classical liberal political theory contains one great hole: by treating citizens solely as individuals, it ignores the groups, ascriptive and voluntary, into...

Ethnic Politics.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY MILTON J. ESMAN. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994, 277 pp. $37.50 cloth (paper, $14-95) This book is a helpful counterpart to Spinner's, looking at ethnicity normatively rather than sociologically. Like Spinner, the author argues that...

Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity: Cross-National and Comparative.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... EDITED BY RUSSELL F. FARNEN. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1994, 538 pp. $49-95. This volume brings together a rather diverse set of chapters on ethnicity and nationalism, with topics ranging from cross-national comparisons of...

The Balkanization of the West: The Confluence of Postmodernism and Postcommunism.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY STJEPAN G. MESTROVIC. London and NewYork: Routledge, 1994, 226 pp. $59-95 (paper, $18.95). As its title suggests, this book argues that rather than democracy and capitalism spreading to the former communist world, the rest of the world will...

Charismatic Christianity as a Global Culture.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... EDITED BY KARLA POEWE. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994, 300 pp. $49.95. This collection of essays analyzes in a scholarly and dispassionate way one of the least understood and appreciated transnational phenomena of the late...

World Orders Old and New.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY NOAM CHOMSKY. NewYork: Columbia University Press, 1994, 311 pp. $24.g5. The dean of American left-wing intellectuals updates his views of world politics since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and not surprisingly he does not like what he sees....

The Social Legacy of Communism.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY JAMES R. MILLAR AND SHARON L. WOLCHIK. New York: Cambridge University Press/Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1994, 404 pp. $69.95 (paper, $18.95). This fine volume hopefully will be the first in a series of studies on the social...

The Twilight of Democracy.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Patrick Kenon. New York: Doubleday, 1995, 320 pp. $24.00. This book, written by a retired CIA analyst, argues that despite its apparent victory, democracy is doomed as a form of government and will be replaced by a competent, faceless...

Surviving the Millennium: American Global Strategy, the Collapse of the Soviet Empire, and the Question of Peace.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Hall Gardner. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1994, 261 pp. $55.00. Despite the title, one will not find too much useful guidance here. (On the other hand, since the millennium is only five years away, surviving until then ma ,y not be as hard...

Talking to the Enemy: How States Without Diplomatic Relations Communicate.(Brief Review)
March 1, 1995... By G. R. Berridge. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994,178 pp. $59.95. This slim volume deals straightforwardly with the pros and cons of the ways that states without diplomatic relations talk to one another. Quite helpful on its somewhat...

Scarcity or Abundance? A Debate on the Environment.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Norman Myers and Julian L. Simon. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994, 254 pp. $21.00. This lively book pits an alarmed environmentalist against an optimistic economist It reports a 1992 debate at Columbia University, along with pre-debate...

Still an Open Door?: U.S. Immigration Policy and the American Economy.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Vernon M. Briggs, Jr., and Stephen Moore. Washington: The American University Press, 1994, 167 pp. $49.50 (paper, $16.95) Immigrants have peopled the United States, but immigration policy has been highly controversial. Motivated by an...

Governing the Global Economy: International Finance and the State.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Ethan B. Kapstein. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994, 224 pp. $29.95. Despite its broad title, this eminently readable book focuses narrowly on international activities of banks and relations with governments over the past two...

Domestic Choices, International Markets: Dismantling National Barriers and Liberalizing Securities Markets.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Andrew C. Sobel. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994, 211 pp. $39.50. This highly readable book is the outgrowth of a Ph.D. dissertation in political science. In a clear thesis, Sobel states that the dramatic deregulation of...

On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Donald Kagan. New York Doubleday, 1995, 606 pp. $30.00. This large and lucid book grew out of a course taught for a number of years at Yale University. The book looks at the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, World War I, the Second Punic...

The Aftermath of Defeat: Societies, Armed Forces, and the Challenge of Recovery.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... Edited by George J. Andrepoulos and Harold E. Selesky. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994, 195 pp. $22.50. This slender volume explores a fascinating theme, focusing primarily on European case studies (although the Chinese after 1979...

Military Readiness: Concepts, Choices, Consequences.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Richard K. Betts. Washington: Brookings, 1995, a80 pp. $36.95 cloth (paper, $16.95). Military readiness is obviously enough of a good thing to elicit more cant from policymakers than almost any other aspect of the military. This book offers...

Congress Oversees the United States Intelligence Community: 1947-1994, 2nd ed.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Frank J. Smist, Jr. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994, 393 pp. X24-95. The dates in the title are misleading: this book covers primarily 1975 to 1993. Still bearing the marks of its origin as a dissertation and relying...

Clearing the Fields: Solutions to the Global Land Mines Crisis.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... Edited by Kevin M. Cahill. New York: Basic Books and the Council on Foreign Relations, 1995, 288 pp. $25.00. There is a great deal of humanitarian passion in Cahill's introduction and conclusion, but the most useful essays in his volume are...

Certain Victory: The U.S. Army in the Gulf War.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Robert H. Scales, Jr. Washington: Brassey's, 1994, 464 pp. $29.95. This is a reissue by Brassey's, under the auspices of the Association of the United States Army, of an official U.S. Army study directed by then Brigadier General Scales and...

China's Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994, 393 pp. X45.00. This careful study is narrower than it initially seems because, in keeping with Cold War usage, "strategic" means nuclear. A richly documented study...

Nuclear Successor States of the Soviet Union.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By the carnegie endowment for international peace and the monterey institute of international studies. Washington: Carnegie Endowment, 1994. 63 pp. This slim monograph is densely packed with information about the nuclear capability and...

Livre Blanc sur la Defense.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... Ministry of Defense, 1994, 139 pp. The U.S. Defense Department does not issue white papers, relying instead on the sometimes informative, often superficial annual report of the secretary of defense to Congress. The annual report is often viewed...

Defending Australia: Defense White Paper, 1994.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... Canberra: Australian Government a Printing Office, 1994,167 pp. The U.S. Defense Department does not issue white papers, relying instead on the sometimes informative, often superficial annual report of the secretary of defense to Congress. The...

On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Elizabeth Drew. NewYork: Simon & Schuster, 1994, 462 pp. $24.00. Elizabeth Drew, the well-known Washington journalist, has written an uneven book on the Clinton presidency. Focusing mostly on Clinton's first year, Drew gives a solid...

Improbable Dangers: U.S. Conceptions of Threat in the Cold War and After.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Robert H. Johnson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 317 pp. $39.95 This carefully argued and meticulously footnoted work examines the tendency of U.S. policymakers to exaggerate threats to American security over the last half-century....

Breakup: The Coming End of Canada and the Stakes for America.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Lansing Lamont. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994, 260 pp. $25.00. In a fascinating portrait of Canada and its manifold divisions, Lamont, an American journalist and long-time observer of Canada, provides an excellent introduction to...

Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By James M. Lindsay. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, 228 pp. $42.50 (paper, $13.95) A balanced and lucid survey of the role of Congress in U.S. foreign policy. Lindsay, a political scientist at Iowa, takes aim at both...

More Precious Than Peace: The Cold War and the Struggle for the Third World.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY PETER W. RODMAN. NewYork: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994, 641 pp. $35.00. A veteran of the Washington policy wars has written a tour de force on the U.S.-Soviet struggle for the Third World. At turns dispassionate, witty, and argumentative,...

American Hegemony: Political Morality in a One-Superpower World.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY LEA BRILMAYER.New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994,259 pp. $30.00 Addresses what moral justification, if any, might be given for "hegemonic leadership." Brilmayer, a professor at New York University Law School, displays real virtuosity as...

Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY FRANCOIS DUCHENE. NewYork: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994, 478 pp. $30.00. A brilliant biography of one of the pivotal and least likely creators of a new European world. Monnet's career in international affairs began with his place on an...

Ending Europe's Wars: The Continuing Search for Peace and Security.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY JONATHAN DEAN. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1994, 439 pp. $34.95A. A broad-gauged survey of Europe's post-89 trouble spots. Also a detailed, critical, and prescriptive analysis of the institutions that could or should provide...

Jews for Sale? Nazi-Jewish Negotiations: 1933-1945.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY YEHUDA BAUER. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994, 306 pp. $30.00. Bauer, a well-known Israeli historian, tries to uncover the murky story that some Nazis negotiated with some Jews--even at the height of the Holocaust. He begins with the...

Churchill and Roosevelt at War: The War They Fought and the Peace They Hoped to Make.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY KEITH SAINSBURY. New York: New York University Press, 1994, 223 pp. $24.95. An English historian, who has written on various aspects of the war, reexamines the relationship of the two leaders, emphasizing their mounting conflicts and the...

The French Community Party in the Fifth Republic.
March 1, 1995... BY D.S. BELL AND BYRON CRIDDLE. NewYork: Oxford University Press, 1994, 294 pp. $55.00. A short history of the structure and political development of the French Communist Part,v, which after World War II was briefly the leading part,v and is...

Oldest Allies, Guarded Friends: The United States and France Since 1940.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY CHARLES G. COGAN. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1994, 234 pp. $19.95 (paper). Analysis of Franco-American relations from Franklin Roosevelt's snubbing of Charles de Gaulle to present disputes of two countries in decline. Major crises--the...

The IRA: A History.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY TIM PAT COOGAN. Niwot, co: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1993, 510 pp. $27.95. Coogan, a prominent Irish journalist, has updated for an American audience an earlier account of the Irish Republican Army. He brings his story--much of it based...

Free Ireland: Towards a Lasting Peace.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY GERRY ADAMS. Niwot, co: Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1994, 224 pp. $11.95 (paper). Coogan, a prominent Irish journalist, has updated for an American audience an earlier account of the Irish Republican Army. He brings his story--much of it...

Western Hemisphere Economic Integration.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER AND JEFFREY J. SCHOTT. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1994, 279 pp. $25.00 (paper). As one has come to expect from Hufbauer and Schott, this new book on the prospects for western hemisphere economic...

Central America and the United States: The Clients and the Colossus.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY JOHN H. COATSWORTH. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994, 277 pp. $15.95 (paper). John Coatsworth, Monroe Gutman professor of Latin American affairs at Harvard University, best known for his innovative writing on the economic history of...

Warriors in Peacetime: The Military and Democracy in Latin America, New Directions for U.S. Policy.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY GABRIEL MARCELLA. Portland: Frank Cass, 1994, 165 pp. $35.00. How so central an institution as the Latin American military can continue to be so little studied is curious. Dictatorships may be out of fashion in the hemisphere, but almost...

Thinking Politics: Intellectuals and Democracy in Chile, 1973-1988.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... JEFFREY M. PURYEAR. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, 204 pp. $42.50 (paper, $13.95). A significant contribution to explaining the role that outside assistance can play in the most unfavorable circumstances. Puryear...

Mexico, Waiting for Justice in Chiapas: A Report by Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch/Americas.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH. Boston: Human Rights Watch, 1994, 169 pp. $15.00 (paper). While many Latin American countries grumbled that Mexico, dressed up in Harvard diplomas and glossy, technocratic, market-oriented clothes, was abandoning them...

Pride of Small Nations: The Caucasus and Post-Soviet Disorder.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By Suzanne Goldenberg. Atlantic Highlands: Zed Books, 1994, 233 pp. $55.00 (paper, $22.50). The answer for someone curious about the mess Russian President Boris Yeltsin has gotten himself into in Chechnya but despairing of the dense,...

Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... By DAVID HOLLOWAY. New Haven:Yale University Press, 1994, 464 pp. $30.00. The story is enthralling; its telling, unobtrusive and efficient; but most of all, the research on which it rests is enormously careful and complete. Had the Soviet...

Comrade Criminal: The Theft of the Second Russian Revolution.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY STEPHEN HANDELMAN. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994, 464 pp. $27.50. Handelman began this book while a Toronto Star correspondent in Moscow from 1987 to 1992, before crime became a mainstream political issue. Handelman profited from...

Hopes and Shadows: Eastern Europe After Communism.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY J. F. BROWN. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994 367 pp. $45.00 (paper, $19.95). Brown, one of the old hands in East European studies, who many times has provided broad, basic accounts of events in postwar Eastern Europe, has done it again....

Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on a Hard Road to a New Israel.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY GLENN FRANKEL. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994, 416 pp. $24.00 During the past decade, Israel has been undergoing a quiet--and sometimes not so quiet--revolution. This change can sometimes be seen clearly, as in the 1992 electoral defeat...

With Friends Like These: Reagan, Bush and Saddam, 1982-1990.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY BRUCE W. JENTLESON. New York. W. W. Norton, 1994, 287 pp. $23.00. After a spate of instant histories on the Persian GulfWar, a carefully researched analytical book has finally appeared. Now one can review both what happened and why, although...

Friends in Deed: Inside the U.S.-Israel Alliance.
March 1, 1995... BY DAN RAVIV AND YOSSI MELMAN. New York: Hyperion, 1994, 537 pp. $27.95. One can wonder whether another book on the U.S.-Israeli relationship is really needed, but this one at least has the virtue of being well-written and filled with tidbits...

China Considers the Middle East.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY LILLIAN CRAIG HARRIS. New York: I. B. Tauris, 1993, 345 pp. $59.50. China's ties to the Middle East have a long history, but until now no one has tried to develop the connections between this legacy and China's contemporary policies in the...

Israel and Syria: Peace and Security on the Golan.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY ARYEH SHALEV. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994, 250 pp. $32.50. If Israel and Syria ever get down to the hard bargaining over security issues that will have to precede a peace treaty, this study could serve as a handbook for negotiators on both...

My Enemy's Enemy: Lebanon in the Early Zionist Imagination, 1900-1948.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY LAURA ZITTRAIN EISENBERG. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 1994, 219 pp. $29.95. When General Ariel Sharon's troops slammed into Lebanon in the summer of 1982, their purpose was not only to drive out the PLO, but also to bring to...

Iraq Since the Gulf War: Prospects of Democracy.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... EDITED BY FRAN HAZELTON. Atlantic Highlands: Zed Books, 1994, 260 pp $55.00 (paper, $22.50). To be skeptical about democracy in Iraq is easy. Getting rid of Saddam Hussein is proving to be extraordinarily difficult, and the next Iraqi...

Islam and the Post-Revolutionary State in Iran.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY HOMA OMID. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 263 pp. $65.00 Part sophisticated analysis, part political tract, this book seeks to account for shortcomings of the Iranian Revolution. At her best, the author presents a convincing picture of...

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY GERALDINE BROOKS. New York: Anchor Books, 1995, 255 pp. $22.95. As a woman reporter covering the Middle East for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks found herself confined to the corridors of high-level offices, shunned by Muslim men,...

Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats, and Generals in South Korea.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY MARK L. CLIFFORD. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 1994, 357 pp $55.00 (paper, $19.95) In South Korea for six years as a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, Clifford has written a superb book, which weaves together history, economics,...

The Transformation of South Korea: Reform and Reconstruction in the Sixth Republic Under Roh Tae Woo, 1987-1992.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY ROBERT E. BEDESKI. New York: Routledge, 1994, 197 pp. $55.00 (paper, $16.95). In South Korea for six years as a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, Clifford has written a superb book, which weaves together history, economics,...

Korea and the World: Beyond the Cold War.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... EDITED BY YOUNG WHAN KIHL. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994, 371 pp $59.95 (paper, $19.95). In South Korea for six years as a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, Clifford has written a superb book, which weaves together history,...

Mandate of Heaven: A New Generation of Entrepreneurs, Dissidents, Bohemians, and Technocrats Lays Claim to China's Future.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY ORVILLE SCHELL. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994, 464 pp. $25.00, Orville Schell has won many awards for his previous books about China, and this is one of his best. It explores the many contradictions and paradoxes in China, where the...

The Chinese at the Negotiating Table: Style and Characteristics.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY ALFRED D. WILHELM, JR. Washington: National Defense University Press, 1994, 281 pp. $12.00 (paper). The author of this original study of Chinese negotiating behavior is a career military officer, who completed his service as the U.S. Army...

Tomorrow is Another Country: The Inside Story of South Africa's Negotiated Revolution.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY ALLISTER SPARKS. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995, 254 pp. $22.00, Portions of this riveting book by a senior South African journalist originally appeared in The New Yorker in early 1994. Based on interviews with the key players on both sides,...

Hard Right: The New White Power in South Africa.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY JOHANN VAN ROOYEN. New York: I. B. Tauris, 1994, 236 pp. $55.00 (paper, $17.95). Based on research from 1989 to 1993, this book offers a detailed analysis of South Africa's white right in the transition to democracy. The author surveys the...

France's Relationship with Subsaharan Africa.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY ANTON ANDEREGGEN. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1994, 200 pp. $55.00. The strong ties between France and its former African colonies are a matter of common knowledge, but this book provides a thorough review of their origins, history, and...

Somalia: The Missed Opportunities.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY MOHAMED SAHNOUN. Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1994, 89 pp. $8.95 (paper). The 1992 U.N. intervention in Somalia was not the organization's finest hour, and the lessons of its failure should be heeded. Mohamed Sahnoun,...

Living with Africa.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1995... BY JAN VANSINA. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994, 300 pp. $40.00 (paper, $19.95). Twenty-three years old in 1952, Jan Vansina left his native Belgium to take an appointment as a field anthropologist for the Royal Museum of the...