Foreign Affairs articles from March 1996

Foreign Affairs archives from March 1996

Kantor's cant: the hole in our trade policy. (US trade representative Mickey Kantor)
March 1, 1996... Brash, hard-nosed, quick-tempered. When Los Angeles lawyer Mickey Kantor became U.S. trade representative in 1993, those adjectives fit him like a well-tailored suit. They were a sign that things would be different in the antebellum building that...

Affording foreign policy: the problem is not wallet, but will.
March 1, 1996... In the spring Of 1993, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Peter Tarnoff explained to a group of reporters that America's quiescent approach to the war in Bosnia would exemplify U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War era because we...

Eyes on Cuba: U.S. business and the embargo.
March 1, 1996... By the end of 1995, the private jet hangar at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana was already booked well into 1996, and most of the reservations belonged to one of Cuba's rare clienteles: American corporations. Chief executives on...

America's information edge. (worldwide leadership in information technology)
March 1, 1996... THE POWER RESOURCE OF THE FUTURE KNOWLEDGE, MORE than ever before, is power. The one country that can best lead the information revolution will be more powerful than any other. For the foreseeable future, that country is the United States....

A revolution in warfare. (impact of military technologies in the reshaping of the armed forces)
March 1, 1996... TECHNOLOGY STRIKES AGAIN For almost a decade American defense planners have foreseen an impending revolution in military affairs, sometimes described as the military-technical revolution. Such a transformation would open the way for a...

Asia's empty tank. (energy problems loom among Asia's powers)
March 1, 1996... ALL REVVED UP AND NO WAY TO GO For NEARLY 15 years, since oil shock began to recede, energy has had remarkably low priority in global policy councils. The time has come for a reevaluation, and nowhere is one more urgent than in the Pacific....

Somalia and the future of humanitarian intervention. (lingering effects of 1992 US involvement in Somalia)
March 1, 1996... LEARNING THE RIGHT LESSONS THE AMERICAN-LED OPERATION in Somalia that began when U.S. Marines hit the Mogadishu beaches in December 1992 continues to profoundly affect the debate over humanitarian intervention. The Clinton administration's...

Global leadership after the Cold War. (redefined role of the United Nations secretary-general)
March 1, 1996... A NEW ROLE FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL THE DEFINITION OF the U.N. secretary-general's role is far from precise. The U.N. Charter identifies the secretary-general as "the chief administrative officer" of the United Nations, permits him to "bring...

Cuba's long reform. (parallels between Fidel Castro's Cuba and Francisco Franco's Spain)
March 1, 1996... WRONG PARALLELS THE PREVAILING expectation in the United States, and certainly among American political leaders, seems to be that the end is near for Cuban President Fidel Castro and his revolution. Indeed, that has been the expectation for...

Tough road to prosperity. (slow economic growth under South Africa's new government)
March 1, 1996... CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY SOUTH AFRICA'S democratic election in April 1994 was widely acclaimed as a marvel of our time. A country that eight years earlier many feared was on the edge of civil war negotiated a political compromise that...

A pragmatic strategy for China's peaceful reunification.
March 1, 1996... President Lee Teng-hui's visit to the US last June brought relations between Taipei and Beijing to an all-time low and raised questions about the effectiveness of the ROC's strategy for reunifying divided Chino. Against this backdrop, ROC premier...

Migrations and Cultures: A World View.
March 1, 1996... BY THOMAS SOWELL. New York: Basic Books, 1995, 512 pp. $27.50. More than ever before, migration is a global phenomenon. In search of employment, higher wages, educational opportunities for themselves and their children, and escape from...

American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword.
March 1, 1996... BY SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996, 352 pp. $27.50. American exceptionalism has come to have two meanings. For many politicians, it is a term of praise: the United States, compared to other countries, is unusually good. For...

Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy.
March 1, 1996... BY MICHAEL J. SANDEL. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996, 432 pp. $24.95. American exceptionalism has come to have two meanings. For many politicians, it is a term of praise: the United States, compared to other countries, is unusually...

After Liberalism.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN. New York: New Press, 1995, 278 pp. $14.95 (paper). For those who like their meta-history in big doses, this book will fit the bill admirably. Rather than seeing the collapse of communism as a victory for liberal ideology,...

Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the close of the Modern Age.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY JOHN GRAY. London and New York: Routledge, 1995, 203 pp. $29.95. In yet another of what has become a flood of books reassessing the Enlightenment-liberal legacy just after the moment of its seeming triumph, John Gray argues that Anglo-Saxon...

Visions and Revisions: Reflections on Culture and Democracy at the End of the Century.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY MARCUS RASKIN. New York: Olive Branch Press, 1995, 34.1 pp. $39.95 (paper, $18-95). This collection of essays begins with a stinging critique of the 1992 U.S. presidential candidates for the narrowness of their visions and then articulates a...

On the Eve of the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreason.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN. New York: Free Press, 1995, 166 pp. $12.00 (paper). The approach of the millennium, it is said, will induce many people to behave strangely, and we have no better proof of it than this short book by the otherwise sensible...

Elusive Peace: Negotiating and End to Civil Wars.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... EDITED BY I. WILLIAM ZARTMAN. Washington: Brookings, 1995, 353 pp. $42-95 (paper, $18.95). A workmanlike effort, this book seeks to explain why civil wars, now the dominant form of conflict, are so hard to resolve. As in many efforts of this...

Liberalism and Community.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY STEVEN KAUTZ. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995, 232 pp. $29-95. This thoughtfully written book addresses what is perhaps the central political issue of our time: whether liberal societies can hold together as self-sustaining communities,...

Render unto Caesar: The Religious Sphere in World Politics.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY SABRINA PETRA RAMET AND DONALD W. TREADGOLD. Washington: American University Press, 1995, 463 pp. $69.50 (paper, $29.95). This fascinating book reflects a growing recognition that old models linking modernization and secularization are not...

Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY WAYNE A. CORNELIUS, PHILIP L. MARTIN, AND JAMES F. HOLLIFELD. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994, 442 pp. $49.50. The case studies in this book compare recent efforts by industrialized countries to limit Third World immigration and...

Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY FRANCIS FUKUYAMA. New York: Free Press, 1995, 457 pp. $25.00. Why do some societies do better than others in creating wealth? In the grand tradition of Weber and Schumpeter, this ambitious and provocative study attempts to return culture and...

The Perils of Anarchy: Contemporary Realism and International Security.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... EDITED BY MICHAEL E. BROWN, SEAN M. LYNN-JONES, AND STEVEN E. Miller. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995, 519 pp. $17.95 (paper). The end of the Cold War was accompanied by a rush to proclaim the failure of realism as a theory of international politics....

Asia Rising: Why America Will Prosper as Asia's Economies Boom.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY JIM ROHWER. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995, 382 pp. $25.00. The title of this well-written book suggests its two main themes. The author was a correspondent for The Economist in Hong Kong for some years and became enamored of the economic...

Socialism, Capitalism, Transformation.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY LESZEK BALCEROWICZ. Budapest: Central European University Press, 199S, 377 pp. 37.50[pounds] (paper, 14.99[pounds]). In one of the most dramatic social experiments of modern times, Poland in 1990 initiated the big bang in its economic...

Economic and Monetary Union in Europe: Moving Beyond Maastricht.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY PETER B. KENEN. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 219 pp. $49.95 (paper, $16.95). The Maastricht Treaty of 1992 commits the European Union of 15 states to create a monetary union involving a single currency by 1999. Peter Kenen, a...

The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY STEPHAN HAGGARD AND ROBERT R. KAUFMAN. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, 391 pp. $55.00 (paper, $18.95). The 1980s saw a remarkable extension of democracy around the world, not only in former communist countries but throughout Latin...

Traders in a Brave New World: The Uruguay Round and the Future of the International Trading System.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY ERNEST H. PREEG. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, 296 pp. $29.95. The Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, concluded in 1994, was eighth in a series of post-1945 multilateral trade negotiations; it was the...

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare: The Triumph of the West.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY GEOFFREY PARKER. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 408 pp. $39.95. Serious reviewers normally shun an illustrated history of anything, but this book deserves close attention from the student of military affairs. Geoffrey Parker,...

Arm in Arm: The Political Economy of the Global Arms Trade.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... By WILLIAM w. KELLER. New York: Basic Books, 1995, 288 pp. $ 25.00. Keller, formerly a senior analyst and project director at the now-defunct congressional Office of Technology Assessment, chronicles and deplores the conventional arms trade in...

Weapons Proliferation in the 1990s.
March 1, 1996... BY BRAD ROBERTS. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995, 473 pp. $18.00 (paper). Keller, formerly a senior analyst and project director at the now-defunct congressional Office of Technology Assessment, chronicles and deplores the conventional arms trade in...

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY DAVE GROSSMAN. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995, 367 pp. $24.95. Very much in the genre of the work of British authors John Keegan, Richard Holmes, and others that explores the grim essence of warfare. The author, an army infantry officer who has...

Does Conquest Pay? The Exploitation of Occupied Industrial Societies.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY PETER LIBERMAN. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996, 272 pp. $35.00. The unfortunate answer to the title's question appears to be yes. This fascinating study of how conquerors can extract resources from industrial societies...

Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY ROBERT BUZZANCO. NEW York: Cambridge University Press, 1996, 38S pp. $29.95. Fury at those who believe that the United States lost the Vietnam War because the military fought with one hand tied behind its back animates this book. The...

A Very Short War: The Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY JOHN F. GUILMARTIN, JR. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1995, 238 pp. $39.50. On May 12, 1975, shortly after the fall of Saigon, Cambodian communists seized an American merchant ship and ignited a brief, sharp clash with...

Strategic Survey: 1994-1995.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES. NEW YORK: Oxford University Press, 1995, 265 pp. $ 29-95 (paper). Every year policymakers, scholars, and pundits wait for two publications of the International Institute for Strategic...

The Battle for History: Refighting World War II.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY JOHN KEEGAN. New York: Vintage, 1996,128 pp. $10.00 (paper). This short, opinionated, and stimulating monograph is in essence an extended book review, divided into chapters on overall histories of the war, biographies, campaigns,...

The Transformation of Security in the Asia-Pacific Region.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... EDITED BY DESMOND BALL. Portland: Frank Cass, 1995, 220 pp. $37.50. (paper, $19.50). One of the most prominent and prolific Australian students of strategic matters has assembled a distinguished group of authors, from several continents and...

The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, 1989-1992.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY JAMES A. BAKER, III. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995, 687 pp. $32.50. This memoir by President Bush's secretary of state presents a triumphant chronicle of his diplomatic activities from 1989 to 1992. Though not in the class of the...

Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY LLOYD C. GARDNER. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995, 61o pp. $35.00. A richly detailed and well-crafted account of the escalation in Vietnam. Gardner, a prolific historian at Rutgers, makes Johnson into an oddly sympathetic figure--"a man by his...

Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY ANDERS STEPHANSON. New York: Hill and Wang, 1995,144 pp. $17-95 (paper, $7.95). This provocative volume, by a Columbia University historian, examines the idea of manifest destiny from 1600 to 1990. The dominant impression conveyed is of an...

Totalitarianism: The Inner History of the Cold War.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY ABBOTT GLEASON. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, 307 pp. $25.00. A thoughtful examination of the idea of the radically intrusive "total state"--and the closely affiliated concept of totalitarianism--from the 1930s to the present...

In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY MICHAELS. SHERRY. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, 595 pp. $35.00. The author of this imaginative study calls the years since 1941 in American history the age of militarization." Sherry, a professor at Northwestern, means by...

F.D.R.'s Good Neighbor Policy: Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY FREDERICK B. PIKE. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995, 394 pp. $34.95. A brilliant though unorthodox treatment of the cultural and intellectual developments that lay behind the policy of the Good Neighbor. The influence of culture on...

U.S. Foreign Policy After the Cold War: Superpower Without a Mission?(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... By MICHAEL cox. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1995, 148 pp., 25.00[pounds] (paper, 11.99[pounds]). This balanced overview of Clinton's foreign policy argues that the administration has pursued a reasonably coherent agenda...

Churchill's Grand Alliance: The Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1940-1957.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY JOHN CHARMLEY. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995, 427 pp. $26.00. In this third instrument of his iconoclastic reassessment of British world policy since the 1930s, Charmley condemns Churchill for having forged a "special relationship" with the...

Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY GITTA SERENY. New York: Knopf, 1995, 757 pp. $35.00. Gitta Sereny, who has written prolifically about the Third Reich and spent 12 years working with Albert Speer and a large number of people who knew him, tells the story of his life in...

The National Front and French Politics: The Resistible Rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY JONATHAN MARCUS. New York: New York University Press, 1995, 212 pp. $45.00 (paper, $17.95). All you ever wanted to know about Jean-Marie Le Pen's astonishing career and the rise of his National Front--the only far-right movement in...

Democracy Imposed: U.S. Occupation Policy and the German Public, 1945-1949.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY RICHARD L. MERRITT: New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996, 452 pp. $40-00, This comprehensive study is in part a survey of the policies the American military government pursued in the American zone of occupation in order to deNazify it, to...

European Social Policy: Between Fragmentation and integration.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY STEPHAN LEIBFRIED AND PAUL PIERSON. Washington: Brookings, 1995, 491 pp. $46.95 (paper, $22.95). Anyone interested in how the European Union actually works, achieves a set of common policies, and shares power among member states, as well as...

Autonomy or Power: The Franco-German Relationship and Europe's Strategic Choices, 1955-1995.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY STEPHEN A. KOCS. Westport: Praeger, 1995, 96 pp. $59.95. This is an excellent analysis of one of the more troublesome aspects of the Franco-German partnership that both the politicians of the Fourth Republic (after 1949) and the leaders of...

The Schuman Plan and the British Abdication of Leadership in Europe.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY EDMUND DELL. NEW York: Oxford University Press, 1995, 323 pp. $59.00. A formidable indictment of Britain's historic failure to endorse the Schuman plan for a coal and steel community and thus join the continental effort at political...

Crisis and Reform in Latin America: From Despair to Hope.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY SEBASTIAN EDWARDS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, 364 pp. $22.95 (paper). An authoritative and generally optimistic overview of the reform process in Latin America from 1982 to 1994 by the World Banles chief economist for Latin...

The Mexican Shock: Its Meaning for the United States.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... CASTANEDA. New York: New Press, 1995, 254 pp. $23.00. As is to be expected from Castaneda, his latest collection of essays provides many useful insights into the central problem facing Mexico today: its agonizingly delayed and at times...

Pinochet's Economists: The Chicago School in Chile.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY JUAN GABRIEL VALDES. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 334 pp. $49.95. A detailed inside look at the intellectual formation of the so-called "Chicago boys," the young economists trained at the University of Chicago who came to...

Capital, Power and Inequality in Latin America.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... EDITED BY SANDOR HALEBSKY AND RICHARD L. HARRIS. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995, 324 pp. $22.95 (paper). University Press, 1995, 570 pp. $29.95. Halebsky and Harris have provided a collection of well-written chapters on contemporary Latin...

Under Northern Eyes: Latin American Studies and U.S. Hegemony in the Americas, 1898-1990.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY MARK T. BERGER. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995, 570 pp. $29.95. Halebsky and Harris have provided a collection of well-written chapters on contemporary Latin America from the perspective of the hard core of the old dependency...

Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY RICHARD C. TREXLER. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995, 292 pp. $29.95. The treacherous waters into which President Clinton waded during his gays in the military fiasco would have come as no surprise to the readers of Richard Trexler's...

Politics and Development in the Caribbean Basin: Central America and the Caribbean in the New World Order.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... Central America and the Carribbean in the New World Order. BY JEAN GRUGEL. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995, 224 pp. $16-95 (paper). Grugel, a lecturer in politics at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom, has produced a...

Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY JACK F. MATLOCK, JR. New York: Random House, 1995, 836 pp. $35.00. Matlock, who served as U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991, chose not to write a personal memoir but to struggle with several fundamental questions: How...

Final Days: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Soviet Union.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY ANDREI S. GRACHEV. Boulder: Westview, 1995, 222 pp. $29.50. Grachev is a uniquely important witness to the Soviet Union's startling end. From the failed putsch in August 1991 until it was all over in December, he served as Gorbachev's press...

The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY LORING M. DANFORTH. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, 273 pp. $29.95. The drained observer who has followed the Yugoslav calamity from the early confrontation over Slovenia through the Serbo-Croatian conflict to the Bosnian war...

Socialist Unemployment: The Political Economy of Yugoslavia, 1945-1990.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY SUSAN L. WOODWARD. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, 443 PP. $55.00 (paper, $19.95). A seemingly narrow, albeit intriguing social science puzzle turns into, as Woodward attacks it, a sweeping exploration of fundamental...

Black Sea.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... New York: Hill and Wang, 19 9S, 306 pp. $23.00. Can one man's fascination with a body of water and the civilizations along its shores be made fascinating to the many? It sure can. One comes away from this book nearly as obsessed as its author...

Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY YAEL ZERUBAVEL. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995,340 pp. $32.50. All states create founding myths and traditions that become part of collective memory. Israel in particular has developed a distinctive national reading of Jewish...

Jewish State or Israeli Nation?(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY BOAS EVRON. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995, 269 pp. $29.95. All states create founding myths and traditions that become part of collective memory. Israel in particular has developed a distinctive national reading of Jewish...

Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy Towards Palestine and Israel Since 1945.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY DONALD NEFF. Washington: Institute for Palestinian Studies, 1995, 350 pp. $25.00. For those new to the Arab-Israeli conflict, it may be hard to recall how passionately, before the peace talks between Israel and the PLO changed the dynamic,...

Powder Keg in the Middle East: The Struggle for Gulf Security.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... EDITED BY GEOFFREY KEMP AND JANICE GROSS STEIN. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995, 417 pp. $42-50 (paper, $20.00). While one part of the Middle East, the Arab-Israeli zone, seems to be moving toward peace, the other major subregion, the...

Secret War in the Middle East: The Covert Struggle for Syria, 1949-1961.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... 1949-1961. BY ANDREW RATHMELL. NEW York: I. B. Tauris, 1995, 246 pp. $59.50. Middle East scholars have always had a hard time dealing with conspiracies as explanations for political turmoil. On the one hand, the political culture is prone to...

Israel, Likud and the Zionist Dream: Power, Politics and Ideology from Begin to Netanyahu.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY COLIN SHINDLER. New York: I. B. Tauris, 199S, 324 pp. $39.50. Just as the Israeli right wing seems to be losing support in the wake of the Rabin assassination--perhaps only temporarily--a solid historical account of the Likud movement has...

Intellectual Origins of Islamic Resurgence in the Modern Arab World.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY IBRAHIM M. ABU-RABI. Albany: State University of New York Press, 19 9S, 370 pp. $19.95 (paper). There is no longer a shortage of books on the Islamist phenomenon in the Arab world. To justify another survey, an author must at least bring...

Iran and the Muslim World: Resistance and Revolution.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY NIKKI R. KEDDIE. New York: New York University Press, 1995, 303 pp. $45.00. A leading historian of modern Iran has pulled together some of her seminal essays, written a few more, and produced a book full of insights into the Iranian...

Iran After the Revolution: Crisis of an Islamic State.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... EDITED BY SAEED RAHNEMA AND SOHRAB BEHDAD. New York: I. B. Tauris, 1995, 292 pp. $59.50. A group of Iranian scholars living in the West has undertaken a critical assessment of the ideological, economic, and social developments in the Islamic...

War of Visions: Conflict of Identities in the Sudan.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY FRANCIS M. DENG. Washington: Brookings, 1995, 577 pp. $ 49.95 (paper, $14-95). Sudan used to be thought of as a country of great potential. Today it is more often referred to in the context of unending internal conflict, gross abuses of...

Oman and the World: The Emergence of an Independent Foreign Policy.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY JOSEPH A. KECHICHIAN. Santa Monica: RAND, 1995,409 pp. $40.00 (paper, $30.00). In 1970 Oman began its forced transition to modern statehood under the rule of Sultan Qabus. As Kechichian argues, Oman has achieved development, stability, and...

Political Liberalization and Democratization in the Arab World.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY REX BRYNEN, BAHGAT KORANY, AND PAUL NOBLE. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1995, 350 pp. $55.(paper, $23.95). These original essays by leading scholars are a welcome contribution to the discussion of democratization in the Arab world. The central...

East Asia in Transition: Toward a New Regional Order.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... EDITED BY ROBERT S. RO S S. Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, iggs, 368 pp. $9.95 (paper, $22.50). Two unusually thoughtful collections of essays by prominent American and Asia scholars on political and economic developments in East Asia after the Cold...

The Southeast Asian Economic Miracle.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... EDITED BY YOUNG C. KIM. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1995, 261 pp. $32.95. Two unusually thoughtful collections of essays by prominent American and Asia scholars on political and economic developments in East Asia after the Cold The...

Democracy and Development in Southeast Asia: The Winds of Change.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY CLARK D. NEHER AND ROSS MARLAY. Boulder: Westview, 1996, 220 pp. $54.95 (paper, $19.95). The ten countries of Southeast Asia are compared in terms of development of democratic processes. According to the authors--both well-informed...

China After Deng Xiaoping: The Power Struggle in Beijing Since Tiananmen(Brief Article)
March 1, 1996... BY WILLY WO-LAP LAM. New York: John Wiley, 1995, 497 pp. $34.95. This is a well-informed and provocative book by a Hong Kong-based Chinese journalist and Sinologist about possible developments in China after Deng's demise. There is a very...

Japan: Domestic Change and Foreign Policy.
March 1, 1996... BY MIKE M. MOCHIZUKI. Santa Monica: RAND, 1995, 102 pp. $15.00. Five good volumes on U.S.-Japan relations. In a brief but comprehensive report, Mochizuki argues that the primary foreign policy debate in Japan is taking place between two...

Japan's Alliance Politics and Defence Production.
March 1, 1996... BY NEIL RENWICK. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, 169 pp. $45.00. Five good volumes on U.S.-Japan relations. In a brief but comprehensive report, Mochizuki argues that the primary foreign policy debate in Japan is taking place between two...

The New Multilateralism in Japan's Foreign Policy.
March 1, 1996... BY DENNIS T. YASUMOTO. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, 230 pp. $39.95. Five good volumes on U.S.-Japan relations. In a brief but comprehensive report, Mochizuki argues that the primary foreign policy debate in Japan is taking place between...