Foreign Affairs articles from March 2002

Foreign Affairs archives from March 2002

The Reluctant Imperialist.(United States foreign policy)
March 1, 2002... THE RELUCTANT IMPERIALIST; Terrorism, Failed States, and the Case for American Empire Lawrence Summers, the dominant professor-politician of the Clinton years, used to say that the United States is history's only nonimperialist superpower....

Argentina's Fall.
March 1, 2002... ARGENTINA'S FALL; LESSONS FROM THE LATEST FINANCIAL CRISIS Argentina's 35 million citizens will not be the only ones to pay a heavy price for that country's latest economic crisis. The fallout may also radically alter economic policies and...

The Battle for Energy Dominance.(oil exports from Russia and Saudi Arabia)
March 1, 2002... russia vs. saudi arabia The American campaign against terrorism may be grabbing the headlines, but another battle is being waged with perhaps equally significant long-term implications: the contest for energy dominance between the world's...

Next Stop Baghdad?(United States' foreign policy)
March 1, 2002... CUTTING THE GORDIAN KNOT As the conflict in Afghanistan winds down, the question of what the United States should do about Iraq has risen to the forefront of American foreign policy. Hawks argue that toppling Saddam Hussein should be...

The Future of Political Islam.
March 1, 2002... IT'S NOT OVER 'TIL IT'S OVER Were the attacks of September 11, 2001, the final gasp of Islamic radicalism or the opening salvo of a more violent confrontation between Muslim extremists and the West? And what does the current crisis imply...

New Friends, New Fears in Central Asia.(United States' foreign policy)
March 1, 2002... MAKING NEW FRIENDS Since the states of Central Asia broke free from the collapsing Soviet Union in 1991, U.S. policy toward the region has been focused on promoting political and economic stability among Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,...

Rescuing the Refugees.(Afghanistan and the international humanitarian action system)
March 1, 2002... A BROKEN SYSTEM The reconstruction of Afghanistan presents a variety of unique problems, but it also illustrates the larger dilemmas that characterize most modern humanitarian emergencies. Around the globe, more people are displaced today...

Beyond Public Diplomacy.(US propaganda in Muslim countries)
March 1, 2002... WEAPONS OF MASS COMMUNICATION "How can a man in a cave outcommunicate the world's leading communications society?" This question, plaintively posed by long-time U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, has been puzzling many Americans. Osama bin...

China's HIV Crisis.
March 1, 2002... THE PRICE OF PROSPERITY "To get rich is glorious," the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping once exhorted his people. Defending this reformist vision, he added, "If you open the window for fresh air, you have to expect some flies to blow in."...

Sudan's Perfect War.
March 1, 2002... BORN INTO BLOODSHED War has raged in Sudan for all but 11 of the 45 years since its independence. The most recent round of fighting began in 1983, after then President Ja`far Muhammad Numayri revoked the autonomy that had been granted to...

Truth and Consequences.(truth commissions)
March 1, 2002... A BRIEF HISTORY OF TRUTH Since September 11, most talk about international justice has focused on what to do with Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorists, if and when they are caught. The debate over military tribunals, international...

Roma Rights, Roma Wrongs.(Gypsies in Europe)
March 1, 2002... EUROPE'S GYPSY PROBLEM Several years ago, a Western law-enforcement adviser working in Romania -- a country where police abuse has been widely reported -- noticed a common explanation for the country's astronomically high conviction rate:...

WHO LOST MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES? The Orientalists Strike Back.(Martin Kramer, 'Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America')
March 1, 2002... Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. by MARTIN KRAMER. Washington: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001, 138 pp. $19.95. Martin Kramer, editor of the Middle East Quarterly and former director...

Picking up the Pieces; What We Can Learn From -- and About -- 9/11.(three books)
March 1, 2002... The Age of Terror: America and the World After September 11. edited by STROBE TALBOTT and NAYAN CHANDA. New York: Basic Books, 2001, 232 pp. $22.00. How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War. edited by JAMES F. HOGE, JR., and GIDEON...

Recent Books on International Relations.
March 1, 2002... Political and Legal G. JOHN IKENBERRY The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone. by JOSEPH S. NYE, JR. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, 222 pp. $26.00. An astutely argued case for...