Foreign Affairs articles from March 2006

Foreign Affairs archives from March 2006

The War of Unintended Consequences.(antiterrism policy of George W, Bush)
March 1, 2006... How (Not?) to fight Terrorism Surprise, Surprise Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon: Richard Falkenrath does not like our book The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It Right ("Grading the War...

Shifting Sands - Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership With Saudi Arabia.(Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership With Saudi Arabia By Rachel Bronson : Oxford University Press, 2006, 368 pp., $30.00 Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis. By John R. Bradley. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005,...

Shifting Sands - Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis.(Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership With Saudi Arabia)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... Saudi Arabia Exposed: Inside a Kingdom in Crisis By John R. Bradley : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 224 pp., $22.95 (paper, $13.95) Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership With Saudi Arabia. By Rachel Bronson. Oxford University...

The Man Without a Plan.(The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done do Much Ill and so Little Good)(Book Review)
March 1, 2006... The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good By William Easterly : Penguin Press, 2006, 417 pp., $27.95 "Be thine own palace," wrote John Donne, "or the world's thy jail."...

Seeing Baghdad, Thinking Saigon.(United States war on Iraq)
March 1, 2006... THE GRAND DELUSION Contentious as the current debate over Iraq is, all sides seem to make the crucial assumption that to succeed there the United States must fight the Vietnam War again -- but this time the right way. The Bush...

Intelligence, Policy,and the War in Iraq.
March 1, 2006... A DYSFUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP The most serious problem with U.S. intelligence today is that its relationship with the policymaking process is broken and badly needs repair. In the wake of the Iraq war, it has become clear that official...

The Last Exit From Iraq.(British occupation of Iraq)
March 1, 2006... HOW THE BRITISH QUIT MESOPOTAMIA The United States was not the first country in the last hundred years to occupy Iraq. That distinction belongs to the United Kingdom, which seized the provinces of Basra, Baghdad, and Mosul from the Ottoman...

The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy.(mutual assured destruction)
March 1, 2006... PRESENT AT THE DESTRUCTION For almost half a century, the world's most powerful nuclear states have been locked in a military stalemate known as mutual assured destruction (MAD). By the early 1960s, the nuclear arsenals of the United...

The Backlash Against Democracy Promotion.(regulation of nongovernmental organizations )
March 1, 2006... THE AUTOCRATS PUSH BACK In January, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law a controversial new bill imposing heightened controls on local and foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) operating in the country. The new...

Ensuring Energy Security.
March 1, 2006... OLD QUESTIONS, NEW ANSWERS On the eve of World War I, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill made a historic decision: to shift the power source of the British navy's ships from coal to oil. He intended to make the fleet faster than...

Can Hamas Be Tamed?(Arab-Israeli conflicts and Palestine elections)
March 1, 2006... THE GREAT EXPERIMENT Much has happened in the decade between the first parliamentary elections for the Palestinian Authority (PA), in 1996, and the second, this year. The Oslo peace process staggered forward and then collapsed; a second...

Do Targeted Killings Work?(Salah Shehada of Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement))
March 1, 2006... TIT FOR TAT Salah Shehada lived a violent life. During his last two years, the senior Hamas leader directed up to 52 terrorist operations against Israel, killing 220 civilians and 16 soldiers. And on July 22, 2002, Shehada died a violent...

Offshoring: The Next Industrial Revolution?
March 1, 2006... A CONTROVERSY RECONSIDERED In February 2004, when N. Gregory Mankiw, a Harvard professor then serving as chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, caused a national uproar with a "textbook" statement about trade, economists...

China and Japan's Simmering Rivalry.
March 1, 2006... THE GREAT ILLUSION China and Japan, the giants of Asia, account for nearly three-quarters of the region's economic activity and more than half of the region's military spending. Despite their deep economic ties and a doubling of their...

Taiwan's Fading Independence Movement.
March 1, 2006... HISTORY OF A CAMPAIGN THAT FAILED Political developments in Taiwan over the past year have effectively ended the independence movement there. What had been a major source of regional instability -- and the most likely source of a...

Two Cheers for Expensive Oil.(petroleum crisis)
March 1, 2006... THE MARKET AT WORK Widespread fears of waning oil reserves are obscuring the real reasons for the cost of crude oil today. The truth behind high prices is mundane: they are the result of extreme economic processes, not geological...