Foreign Affairs articles from March 2005

Foreign Affairs archives from March 2005

The Overstretch Myth Can the Indispensable Nation Be a Debtor Nation?(United States)
March 1, 2005... David H. Levey recently retired after 19 years as Managing Director of Moody's Sovereign Ratings Service. Stuart S. Brown is Professor of Economics and International Relations in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs at Syracuse University's...

Mind the Gap - Can the New Europe Overtake the U.S. Economy?
March 1, 2005... Robert C. Pozen is Chairman of MFS Investment Management, a trustee of the American Academy in Berlin, and former John Olin Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Most Americans consider the United States far ahead of Europe...

All the Presidents' Men - The Role of Special Envoys in U.S. Foreign Policy.
March 1, 2005... Michael Fullilove is Program Director for Global Issues at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney, Australia. A former adviser to the Australian prime minister, he is writing a book on Franklin Roosevelt's envoy diplomacy. ...

Taking on Tehran.(Iran and nuclear power)
March 1, 2005... Kenneth Pollack is Director of Research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution and the author of The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America. Ray Takeyh is a Senior Fellow in Middle East Studies at...

Ukraine's Orange Revolution.(Contested elections)
March 1, 2005... Adrian Karatnycky is Counselor and Senior Scholar at Freedom House. orange crush "Razom nas bahato! Nas ne podolaty!" The rhythmic chant spread through the crowd of hundreds of thousands that filled Kiev's Independence Square on the...

Preventing a War Over Taiwan.
March 1, 2005... Kenneth Lieberthal teaches political science and business at the University of Michigan and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. In 1998-2000, he served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs...

The Development Challenge.(economic development)
March 1, 2005... Jeffrey D. Sachs is Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and Director of the UN Millennium Project, which in January issued the report Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Goals. He is also the...

The Right Way to Promote Arab Reform.(Political reform)
March 1, 2005... Steven A. Cook is a Next Generation Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. learning how to help Since taking office four years ago, President George W. Bush has often spoken of the need for political reform in the Arab world....

The Struggle to Transform the Military.
March 1, 2005... Max Boot is a Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the U.S. Joint Forces Command Transformation Advisory Group. He is writing a history of revolutions in military affairs over the past...

Outsourcing War.(private military firms)
March 1, 2005... P. W. Singer is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Project on U.S. Policy Towards the Islamic World at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized...

The Choice - Finding Hope in the History of Environmental Ruin.(Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Donald Kennedy is Editor in Chief of Science and Bing Professor of Environmental Science and President Emeritus at Stanford University. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. by Jared Diamond. Viking, 2004, 575 pp. $29.95. ...

Response: The Flip Side of the Record - The Commitment to Law Is Key to U.S. Legitimacy.
March 1, 2005... Robert W. Tucker is Professor Emeritus of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University. David C. Hendrickson is Robert J. Fox Distinguished Service Professor at Colorado College. Robert Kagan ("A Matter of Record," January/February...

Responses: Red-Handed - The Truth About North Korea's Weapons Program.
March 1, 2005... Dead to Rights As individuals who have negotiated with North Korea and are well versed in the development of Pyongyang's nuclear programs through our service in the Clinton and Bush administrations, we feel compelled to comment on Selig...

Somalia: State Collapse and the Threat of Terrorism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Somalia: State Collapse and the Threat of Terrorism By International Institute for Strategic Studies : International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2004, 96 pp., $35.00 Since September 11, failed states such as Afghanistan have...

The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Democracy Advantage: How Democracies Promote Prosperity and Peace By Morton H. Halperin, Joseph T. Siegle, and Michael M. Weinstein : Routledge, 2004, 312 pp., $27.50 This forceful case for a "democracy centered" foreign...

At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention By David Rieff : Simon & Schuster, 2005, 288 pp., $24.00 In the last decade, Rieff has been one of the most engaging observers of war and humanitarian emergencies in...

The Limits of International Law.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Limits of International Law By Jack L. Goldsmith and Eric A. Posner : Oxford University Press, 2005, 272 pp., $29.95 Scholars have long debated why and when states comply with international law; one widely held view is that...

Gulliver Unbound: America's Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Gulliver Unbound: America's Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq By Stanley Hoffman with Frederic Bozo : Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, 168 pp., $19.95 Throughout his distinguished career, Hoffmann has remained intellectually and...

The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of the 1990s.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of the 1990s By Sadaka Ogata : Norton, 2005, 384 pp., $27.95 Ogata, United Nations high commissioner for refugees during the 1990s, reflects on her experience in a busy decade of...

Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Winning the Oil Endgame: Innovation for Profits, Jobs, and Security By Amory B. Lovins et al : Rocky Mountain Institute, 2004, 309 pp., $40.00 High oil prices in 2004 reminded everyone of growing U.S. dependence on the rest of the...

Multinational Firms in the World Economy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Multinational Firms in the World Economy By Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Anthony J. Venables : Princeton University Press, 2004, 336 pp., $45.00 Multinational corporations (MNCs), a source of controversy for decades (recall Canadian...

The Politics of Equity Finance in Emerging Markets.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Politics of Equity Finance in Emerging Markets By Kathryn C. Lavelle : Oxford University Press, 2004, 296 pp., $74.50 (paper, $45.00) Equity markets have grown rapidly around the world, particularly in developing countries....

Arbitrary and Capricious: The Precautionary Principle in the European Union Courts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Arbitrary and Capricious: The Precautionary Principle in the European Union Courts By Gary E. Marchant and Kenneth L. Mossman : AEI Press, 2004, 102 pp., $20.00 The European Union enshrined the "precautionary principle" with...

Bailouts or Bail-ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Economies.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Bailouts or Bail-ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Economies By Nouriel Robini and Brad Setser : Institute for International Economics, 2004, 348 pp., $28.95 It has become routine to describe International Monetary...

Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases By Michael Kremer and Rachel Glennerster : Princeton University Press, 2004, 152 pp., $24.95 This short book poses a problem and suggests a...

Overconfidence and War: The Havoc and Glory of Positive Illusions.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Overconfidence and War: The Havoc and Glory of Positive Illusions By Dominic D. P. Johnson : Harvard University Press, 2004, 288 pp., $26.95 If states could know the outcome of wars in advance, they would in many cases, even when...

Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, From Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II.(The Politics of Air Power: From Confrontation to Cooperation in Army Aviation Civil-Military Relations)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, From Kitty Hawk to Gulf War II By Stephen Budiansky : Viking, 2004, 528 pp., $29.95 The Politics of Air Power: From Confrontation to Cooperation in Army Aviation...

The Politics of Air Power: From Confrontation to Cooperation in Army Aviation Civil-Military Relations.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Politics of Air Power: From Confrontation to Cooperation in Army Aviation Civil-Military Relations By Rondall R. Rice : University of Nebraska Press, 2004, 384 pp., $49.95 Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That...

The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam.(Valley of Decision: The Siege of Khe Sanh)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam By Martin Windrow : Da Capo, 2004, 734 pp., $30.00 Valley of Decision: The Siege of Khe Sanh. John Prados and Ray W. Stubbe. Da Capo, 2004, 576 pp. $21.95 (paper) ...

Valley of Decision: The Siege of Khe Sanh.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Valley of Decision: The Siege of Khe Sanh By John Prados and Ray W. Stubbe : Da Capo, 2004, 576 pp., $21.95 (paper) The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam. Martin Windrow. Da Capo, 2004, 734 pp. $30.00 ...

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 By Max Hastings : Knopf, 2004, 640 pp., $30.00 (paper, $17.95) The last eight months of World War II were the war's worst. Even when the result seemed inevitable, the death camps worked...

The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Flawed Architect: Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy By Jussi M. Hanhimaki : Oxford University Press, 2004, 576 pp., $35.00 Hundreds of thousands of words have been written about Henry Kissinger, including many by the...

Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights By Allen D. Hertzke : Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, 440 pp., $27.95 The rising influence of conservative religious groups in U.S. foreign policy is one of the...

America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism By Anatol Lieven : Oxford University Press, 2004, 288 pp., $30.00 "I don't hate America, I regret it!" Sigmund Freud once said. "A mistake; a gigantic mistake, it is true,...

The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century By James C. Bennet : Rowman & Littlefield, 2004, 352 pp., $39.95 Lurking beneath a prose style that sometimes manages to be...

Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation By Peter L. Bernstein : Norton, 2005, 352 pp., $24.95 The Erie Canal stretches for 363 miles, from Albany to Buffalo. Its construction was a major event in...

The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy By T.R. Reid : Penguin Press, 2004, 320 pp., $25.95 Reid, a former head of The Washington Post's London bureau, writes not for specialists but for a...

Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation By Paul A. Silverstein : Indiana University Press, 2004, 288 pp., $49.95 (paper, $22.95) This informative and sophisticated work of anthropology examines Algerian immigration to...

The Judicial Construction of Europe.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Judicial Construction of Europe By Alec Stone Sweet : Oxford University Press, 2004, 294 pp., $99.00 (paper, $39.95) Stone Sweet, who teaches political science and law at Yale, has been a champion of the study of courts as...

Euros and Europeans: Monetary Integration and the European Model of Society.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Euros and Europeans: Monetary Integration and the European Model of Society By Edited by Andrew Martin and George Ross : Cambridge University Press, 2004, 398 pp., $75.00 (paper, $32.99) An "interdisciplinary transnational team" of...

Making Friends With Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Making Friends With Hitler: Lord Londonderry, the Nazis, and the Road to War By Ian Kershaw : Penguin Press, 2004, 512 pp., $29.95 After a monumental study of Hitler, Kershaw has narrowed his focus, at least in appearance. This is...

Mexico Under Fox.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Mexico Under Fox By Edited By Luis Rubio and Susan Kaufman Purcell : Lynee Rienner, 2004, 178 pp., $38.50 (paper, $16.95) It is fashionable to blame President Vicente Fox for Mexico's season of discontent, but Mexico Under Fox, a...

Keeping the Promise: Immigration Proposals From the Heartland.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Keeping the Promise: Immigration Proposals From the Heartland By Chicago Council on Foreign Relations : , 2004, 94 pp., It is fashionable to blame President Vicente Fox for Mexico's season of discontent, but Mexico Under Fox, a...

Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America By Kathryn Sikkink : Cornell University Press, 2004, 288 pp., $29.95 Sikkink adds to her important work on nongovernmental organizations and advocacy networks with this...

Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America By Edited by Alfred P. Montero and David J. Samuels : University of Notre Dame Press, 2004, 320 pp., $47.50 (paper, $27.50) States and municipalities are gaining strength in Latin...

Integrating the Americas: FTAA and Beyond.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Integrating the Americas: FTAA and Beyond By Edited by Antoni Estevadeordal, Dani Rodrik, Alan M. Taylor, and Andres Velasco : Harvard University Press, 2004, 860 pp., $39.99 Free trade agreements are the contemporary equivalent of...

Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond.(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond By Kevin P. Gallagher : Stanford University Press, 2004, 136 pp., $42.50 (paper, $16.95) Free trade agreements are the contemporary equivalent of security alliances....

The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s By V. P. Gagnon, Jr. : Cornell University Press, 2004, 240 pp., $35.00 Neither the popular explanation nor the oft-cited theory is right, Gagnon argues. The Balkan wars of the...

Crafting Democracy: How Novgorod Has Coped With Rapid Social Change.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Crafting Democracy: How Novgorod Has Coped With Rapid Social Change By Nicolai N. Petro : Cornell University Press, 2004, 272 pp., $39.95 Petro's is a doubly innovative contribution. To the copious, contentious literature on...

Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, Vol. 1: Commissar, 1918-1945.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev, Vol. 1: Commissar, 1918-1945 By Edited by Sergei N. Khrushchev : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004, 752 pp., $55.00 This is the first of what will be a three-volume translation of Khrushchev's...

Milosevic: A Biography.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Milosevic: A Biography By Adam LeBor : Yale University Press, 2004, 448 pp., $35.00 Slobodan Milosevic, although with worthy rivals among the culprits responsible for the misery that befell the peoples of the former Yugoslavia,...

The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror By Oleg V. Khlevniuk : Yale University Press, 2004, 464 pp., $39.95 The "Annals of Communism" series is Yale University Press's invaluable publishing enterprise...

Cold Peace: Russia's New Imperialism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Cold Peace: Russia's New Imperialism By Janusz Bugajski : Praeger, 2004, 312 pp., $49.95 Bugajski provides the first detailed, tightly woven assessment of post- Soviet Russian policy in eastern Europe, and it is highly critical....

The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America By Kenneth M. Pollack : Random House, 2004, 576 pp., $26.95 After a broad-brush historical background "from Persepolis to the Pahlavis," this informed and eminently readable...

What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building By Noah Feldman : Princeton University Press, 2004, 200 pp., $19.95 What are, and what should be, the legal and ethical norms governing the U.S. role in Iraq? Feldman's...

Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel That Is Challenging the West.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Al-Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel That Is Challenging the West By : Grove, 2005, 448 pp., $24.00 Although independent, Al-Jazeera was started in November 1996 with a handsome grant from the emir of Qatar, who...

The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization By Richard W. Bulliet : Columbia University Press, 2004, 192 pp., $24.50 What if, instead of viewing the Muslim world as a fundamentally different "other," we saw it as sharing a common...

The Muslim World After 9/11.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... The Muslim World After 9/11 By Angel M. Rabasa et al : RAND, 2004, 564 pp., $55.00 (paper, $40.00) In another big book from the Rand Corporation, eight authors provide separate chapters on Muslims and politics in the Middle East,...

Negotiating With Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Negotiating With Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy By Michael R. Auslin : Harvard University Press, 2004, 276 pp., $45.00 This long-overdue book challenges the stereotype of a passive Japan...

A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism By Suisheng Zhao : Stanford University Press, 2004, 376 pp., $65.00 (paper, $24.95) The dominant narrative of modern China has centered around its...

Himalayan People's War: Nepal's Maoist Rebellion.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Himalayan People's War: Nepal's Maoist Rebellion By Edited by Michael Hutt : Indiana University Press, 2004, 336 pp., $60.00 (paper, $24.95) As the rest of the world moves toward democracy, Nepal has had a hard time keeping up. Its...

Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide By Alexander Laban Hinton : University of California Press, 2004, 382 pp., $55.00 (paper, $21.95) In this study of a once-peaceful Buddhist society that got so caught up with...

India Untouched: The Forgotten Face of Rural Poverty.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... India Untouched: The Forgotten Face of Rural Poverty By Abraham M. George : Writers' Collective, 2005, 368 pp., $26.95 After 25 years in the United States as a graduate student and entrepreneur, George returned to India, where he...

Africa Since Independence: A Comparative History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Africa Since Independence: A Comparative History By Paul Nugent : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 624 pp., $75.00 (paper, $24.95) Nugent's book is easily the best single-volume history of postcolonial Africa written in the last 20 years....

Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa By Edited by Alex De Waal : Indiana University Press, 2004, 200 pp., $60.00 (paper, $24.95) A decade before the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 1996, a fundamentalist Islamic...

This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia By Laura C. Hammond : Cornell University Press, 2004, 272 pp., $45.00 (paper, $19.95) Africa's many long-lasting conflicts have created some 15 million refugees. As much...

Beyond the Age of Innocence: A Worldly View of America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Beyond the Age of Innocence: A Worldly View of America By Kishore Mahbubani : PublicAffairs, 2005, 320 pp., $26.00 In this thoughtful and very personal meditation, Mahbubani, the distinguished Singaporean scholar-diplomat,...

Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
March 1, 2005... Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel By Jeffrey Tayler : Houghton Mifflin, 2005, 256 pp., $25.00 Tayler is perfecting a new genre of travel book: the author puts him or herself in situations of...