Foreign Affairs articles from March 2003

Foreign Affairs archives from March 2003

Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare.
March 1, 2003... WHAT'S NEW? America's novel use of special operations forces (SOF), precision weapons, and indigenous allies has attracted widespread attention since its debut in Afghanistan, proving both influential and controversial. Many believe it was...

Israel Banks on a Fence.
March 1, 2003... PEACE THROUGH SEPARATION Recent public opinion polls show that a growing number of Israeli citizens support a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while also believing that a total separation of the two peoples is...

Crisis in the Caucasus - A New Look at Russia's Chechen Impasse.(The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union?)(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union? by Matthew Evangelista. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2003, 352 pp. $49.95. It is hard to think of a more likely pair of candidates for historical enmity than the...

Misunderstanding Each Other.
March 1, 2003... WHAT GOES AROUND Anti-Americanism has been a feature of the European news media for years. Newspapers such as Le Monde and The Guardian have long been a useful source of quotes for those who want to illustrate tensions in the Atlantic...

How to Deal With North Korea.
March 1, 2003... MIXED MESSAGES Progress in reducing tensions on the Korean peninsula, never easy, has reached a dangerous impasse. The last six months have witnessed an extraordinary series of events in the region that have profound implications for...

Letters to the Editor.
March 1, 2003... Paul "Red" Shuttleworth on Foreign Affairs in the classroom; Edward B. Atkeson on peace in the Middle East; and others AROUND THE "BEND" To the Editor: Since I might be the only junior-college instructor of English using a Foreign...

America Discovers Central Asia.
March 1, 2003... LONG TIME, NO SEE Prior to September 11, 2001, the Central Asian states of the former Soviet Union -- Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan -- might as well have been on the other side of the moon as far as U.S....

Why Do They Hate Us? Two Books Take Aim at French Anti-Americanism.(Book Review)
March 1, 2003... L'obsession anti-americaine: Son fonctionnement, ses causes, ses inconsequences. by Jean-Francois Revel. Paris: Plon, 2002, 299 pp. 120.00. L'ennemi americain: Genealogie de l'antiamericanisme francais. by Philippe Roger. Paris: Seuil,...

Bush's Nuclear Revolution - A Regime Change in Nonproliferation.
March 1, 2003... The Bush administration's new "National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)," announced in December, is wise in some places, in need of small fixes in other places, and dangerously radical in still others. Most important, the...

Foreign Assistance in an Aging World.
March 1, 2003... FROM MONTERREY TO MADRID At the International Conference on Financing for Development held in Monterrey, Mexico, last March, the Bush administration promised it would request a $5 billion increase in the U.S. foreign assistance...

Recent Books on International Relations.(Bibliography)
March 1, 2003... The United States Walter Russell Mead The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany 1941-1945. by Michael Beschloss. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002, 400 pp. $26.95. World War II is the most...

A Better Way to Fight Global Poverty - Broadening the Millennium Challenge Account.
March 1, 2003... Last March, at the un-sponsored International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, President George W. Bush pledged to significantly increase U.S. development assistance to poor nations through the creation of a new...

How Europe and America Defend Themselves.
March 1, 2003... COMMON GROUND After the United States was attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001, its European allies were among the first nations to express sympathy and pledge their aid in the war to come. The fact that many European countries...

Axis of Oil?
March 1, 2003... THE NEW RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONSHIP Ever since the Iron Curtain came crashing down, American and Russian diplomats have been searching for a special relationship between their countries to replace Cold War animosity. Security matters have...