Foreign Affairs articles from March 2009

Foreign Affairs archives from March 2009

The precedents for withdrawal: from Vietnam to Iraq.(Comments)(history of United States troop withdrawals)(Essay)
March 1, 2009... In November 2008, the governments of the United States and Iraq agreed that U.S. troops would leave Iraq by 2011--eight years after the U.S. invasion. For some, this is much too soon. These critics argue that events on the ground, not an...

The Japan fallacy: today's U.S. financial crisis is not like Tokyo's "lost decade".(Comments)(comparison between the 2008 United States financial crisis and Japan's economic slump during the 1990s)
March 1, 2009... In periods of crisis, pundits and policymakers tend to scramble for historical analogies. This time, many have seized on Japan's notorious "lost decade," the decade of stagnation that followed a mammoth property bubble in the late 1980s. But...

Center stage for the twenty-first century: power plays in the Indian Ocean.(importance of the Indian Ocean on the economic growth of India and China)(Essay)
March 1, 2009... FOR BETTER or worse, phrases such "the Cold War" and "the clash of civilizations" matter. In a similar way, so do maps. The right map can stimulate foresight by providing a spatial view of critical trends in world politics. Understanding the...

How development leads to democracy: what we know about modernization.(Essay)
March 1, 2009... IN THE last several years, a democratic boom has given way to a democratic recession. Between 1985 and 1995, scores of countries made the transition to democracy, bringing widespread euphoria about democracy's future. But more recently,...

Reshaping the world order: how Washington should reform international institutions.(the role of the United States in reforming international institutions)(Essay)
March 1, 2009... CREATING A LEAGUE of democracies, revamping the UN Security Council, revitalizing the nuclear nonproliferation regime--proposals for revising international institutions are all the rage these days. And for good reason: no one sitting down to...

The geoengineering option: a last resort against global warming?(Essay)
March 1, 2009... EACH YEAR, the effects of climate change are coming into sharper focus. Barely a month goes by without some fresh bad news: ice sheets and glaciers are melting faster than expected, sea levels are rising more rapidly than ever in recorded...

Free at last? The Arab world in the twenty-first century.(Islamic theocracy and liberal democracy in the Middle East)(Essay)
March 1, 2009... As the twentieth century drew to an end, it became clear that a major change was taking place in the countries of the Arab world. For almost 200 years, those lands had been ruled and dominated by European powers and before that by non-Arab...

Germany's Russia question: a new Ostpolitik for Europe.(Russia's foreign relations with Germany and the rest of the world)(Essay)
March 1, 2009... LAST JULY, more than 200,000 people flocked to a public park in Berlin to hear Barack Obama, then the Democratic candidate for president of the United States, deliver a speech calling for renewed transatlantic partnership and cooperation. The...

Bank shots: how the financial system can isolate Rogues.(the United States' use of sanctions as part of their foreign policy)(Essay)
March 1, 2009... OVER THE last five years, U.S. national security policy and the international banking system have become inextricably intertwined. With terrorism and nuclear proliferation at the top of the United States' foreign policy agenda and few...

Cambodia's curse: struggling to shed the Khmer Rouge's legacy.(Essay)
March 1, 2009... THEARY SENG often thinks of that April morning in 1975 when she watched her parents cheering on the Khmer Rouge as its soldiers marched into Phnom Penh. She was four years old. Within days, Pol Pot's foot soldiers had killed her father; three...

Adrift on the Nile: the limits of the opposition in Egypt.(Egypt After Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Egypt After Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World. BY BRUCE K. RUTHERFORD. Princeton University Press, 2008, 292 pp. $35.00. It is hard to believe today, but just four years ago, the Arab world seemed on the brink of...

The missing peaces: how to govern Jerusalem and strike an Israeli-Syrian deal.(Responses)
March 1, 2009... Old City, New Regime Jerusalem's Old City covers only one square kilometer, but it embodies every aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Within its walls, overlapping demographic, economic, political, religious, security, and symbolic...

Realigning Syria.(Responses)(relationship between Syria and Israel regarding the military situation in Golan Heights)(Essay)
March 1, 2009... In their recent essay, Richard Haass and Martin Indyk urge the Obama administration to promote an Israeli-Syrian peace deal, arguing that it could break the Iranian-Syrian alliance and help isolate Iran in its nuclear stand off with the West....

Climatic Cataclysm: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Climate Change.(Political and Legal)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Climatic Cataclysm: The Foreign Policy and National Security Implications of Climate Change. EDITED BY KURT M. CAMPBELL. Brookings Institution Press, 2008, 237 pp. $28.95. Over the last two decades, many experts have made urgent calls to...

What's Wrong With the United Nations and How to Fix It.(Political and Legal)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... What's Wrong With the United Nations and How to Fix It. BY THOMAS G. WEISS. Polity Books, 2008, 292 pp. $64.95 (paper, $19.95). In this engaging and sweeping critique of the United Nations, Weiss argues that the global body has never been...

We mourn the death of Lucian W. Pye, who passed away last year after a long career as an eminent political scientist and nearly a decade as the reviewer for the Asia and Pacific section.(Obituary)(Brief article)
March 1, 2009... We mourn the death of LUCIAN W. PYE, who passed away last year after a long career as an eminent political scientist and nearly a decade as the reviewer for the Asia and Pacific section. We are fortunate to have as his successor ANDREW J....

The Fate of Young Democracies.(Political and Legal)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Fate of Young Democracies. BY ETHAN B. KAPSTEIN AND NATHAN CONVERSE. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 216 pp. $90.00 (paper, $29.99). The wave of democratization that occurred throughout the world beginning in the 1980s seems to have...

The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All.(Political and Legal)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All. BY GARETH EVANS. Brookings Institution Press, 2008, 348 pp. $29.95. How should the international community act in the face of genocide and humanitarian...

Just Politics: Human Rights and the Foreign Policy of Great Powers.(Political and Legal)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Just Politics: Human Rights and the Foreign Policy of Great Powers. BY c. WILLIAM WALLDORF, JR. Cornell University Press, 2008, 248 pp. $39.95. Democratic great powers have, on occasion, terminated strategic partnerships with illiberal...

Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices.(Economic, Social, and Environmental)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Reforming Pensions: Principles and Policy Choices. BY NICHOLAS BARR AND PETER DIAMOND. Oxford University Press, 2008, 368 pp. $49.95. The creation or reform of pensions is under discussion almost everywhere. Growing urbanization and rising...

The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About It.(Economic, Social, and Environmental)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About It. BY ROBERT J. SHILLER. Princeton University Press, 2008, 208 pp. $16.95. This book provides a more popularized version of the Yale economist...

Carbonomics: How to Fix the Climate and Charge It to OPEC.(Economic, Social, and Environmental)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Carbonomics: How to Fix the Climate and Charge It to OPEC. BY STEVEN STOFT. Diamond Publishing, 2008, 297 pp. $15.00. How best to deal with climate change will be high on the international and national agendas in the coming years. The...

Banking on Basel: The Future of International Financial Regulation.(Economic, Social, and Environmental)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Banking on Basel: The Future of International Financial Regulation. BY DANIEL K. TARULLO. Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2008, 324 pp. $26.95. The financial crisis of 2007-8 has led many to the conclusion that financial...

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World.(Economic, Social, and Environmental)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. BY NIALL FERGUSON. Penguin Press, 2008, 432 pp. $29.95. The outgrowth of a television series, this breezy, fun-to-read book takes its readers from the earliest beginnings of money in...

Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas.(Military, Scientific, and Technological)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas. BY DAVID CORTRIGHT. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 392 pp. $90.00 (paper, $29.99). Cortright's thorough and thoughtful discussion of the ideas and movements that have associated themselves with...

The Steps to War: An Empirical Study.(Military, Scientific, and Technological)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Steps to War: An Empirical Study. BY PAUL D. SENESE AND JOHN A. VASQUEZ. Princeton University Press, 2008, 334 PP. $60.00 (paper, $26.95). This book opens poignantly with a preface written by Vasquez following the funeral of his...

Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam.(Military, Scientific, and Technological)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Lessons in Disaster: McGeorge Bundy and the Path to War in Vietnam. BY GORDON M. GOLDSTEIN. Times Books, 2008, 320 pp. $25.00. After former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara addressed the grave mistakes that were made in the run-up...

The Mother of All Battles: Saddam Hussein's Strategic Plan for the Persian Gulf War.(Military, Scientific, and Technological)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Mother of All Battles: Saddam Hussein's Strategic Plan for the Persian Gulf War. BY KEVIN M. WOODS. Naval Institute Press, 2008, 336 pp. $25.20. For students of the Persian Gulf War, this account of what Saddam Hussein thought he was...

Treading on Hallowed Ground: Counterinsurgency Operations in Sacred Spaces.(Military, Scientific, and Technological)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Treading on Hallowed Ground: Counterinsurgency Operations in Sacred Spaces. EDITED BY C. CHRISTINE FAIR AND SUMIT GANGULY. Oxford University Press, 2008, 240 pp. $99.00 (paper, $24.95). This is a fascinating collection of case studies of...

America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy. BY ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI AND BRENT SCOWCROFT WITH DAVID IGNATIUS. Basic Books, 2008, 304 pp. $27.50. Both Brzezinski and Scowcroft are too subtle for easy...

Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Imminent Secularization From the Puritans to the Present Day.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Imminent Secularization From the Puritans to the Present Day. EDITED BY CHARLES MATHEWES AND CHRISTOPHER McKNIGHT NICHOLS. Oxford University Press, 2008, 264 pp. $74.00 (paper, $25.00). ...

The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century. BY G. JOHN IKENBERRY, THOMAS J. KNOCK, ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER, AND TONY SMITH. Princeton University Press, 2008, 168 pp. $24.95. Was George W. Bush the heir of...

Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea. BY NOAH ANDRE TRUDEAU. HarperCollins, 2008, 668 pp. $35.00. Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's march through Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah was perhaps the most dramatic military episode...

White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. BY BRENDA WINEAPPLE. Knopf, 2008, 432 pp. $27.95. In a brilliant account of one of the oddest literary friendships in American history, Wineapple recounts the...

Vera and the Ambassador: Escape and Return.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Vera and the Ambassador: Escape and Return. BY VERA BLINKEN AND DONALD BLINKEN. State University of New York Press, 2008, 350 pp. $24.95. After the collapse of the Soviet empire, Hungary went through a painful, at times disruptive,...

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997.(Western Europe)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997. BY PIERS BRENDON. Knopf, 2008, 816 pp. $37.50. Only a very confident historian with a massive, comprehensive, and thoroughly researched manuscript would willingly invite comparisons...

The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe.(Western Europe)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe. BY WILLIAM I. HITCHCOCK. Free Press, 2008, 464 pp. $28.00. For most Americans, the liberation of Europe is the story of victorious Allied armies, heroic U.S. soldiers,...

European Military Crisis Management: Connecting Ambition and Reality.(Western Europe)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... European Military Crisis Management: Connecting Ambition and Reality. BY BASTIAN GIEGERICH. Routledge, 2008, 95 pp. $37.50. In December 1999, the European Union endorsed a "headline goal" of being able by 2003 to deploy 50,000-60,000...

How to Be French: Nationality in the Making Since 1789.(Western Europe)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... How to Be French: Nationality in the Making Since 1789. BY PATRICK WEIL. TRANSLATED BY CATHERINE PORTER. Duke University Press, 2008, 456 pp. $89.95 (paper, $24.95). Weil, a senior research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche...

Latin America's Struggle for Democracy.(Western Hemisphere)(Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America; Radical Democracy in the Andes)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Latin America's Struggle for Democracy. EDITED BY LARRY DIAMOND, MARC F. PLATTNER, AND DIEGO ABENTE B RUN. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, 328 pp. $45.00 (paper, $19.95). Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America. EDITED BY...

U.S.-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality.(Western Hemisphere)(Re-thinking U S.--Latin American Relations." A Hemispheric Partnership for a Turbulent World; "Memos to the President-Elect." Special issue, Americas Quarterly)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... U.S.-Latin America Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality. EDITED BY CHARLENE BARSHEFSKY AND JAMES T. HILL. Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2008, 108 pp. $15.00. Re-thinking U S.--Latin American Relations." A Hemispheric...

Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Russian Orthodoxy Resurgent: Faith and Power in the New Russia. BY JOHN GARRARD AND CAROL GARRARD. Princeton University Press, 2008, 348 pp. $29.95. A recrudescent Russian Orthodox Church has reoccupied much of the social space that had...

Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Kosovo: What Everyone Needs to Know. BY TIM JUDAH. Oxford University Press, 2008, 208 pp. $70.00 (paper, $16.95). Kosovo, for all the recent stir, is one of those headline issues whose complex underpinnings escape most people. Judah, the...

The Foundations of Ethnic Politics: Separatism of States and Nations in Eurasia and the World.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The Foundations of Ethnic Politics: Separatism of States and Nations in Eurasia and the World. BY HENRY E. HALE. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 304 pp. $85.00 (paper, $27.99). Hale disputes the notion that ethnicity generates conflict...

In Pursuit of Liberalism: International Institutions in Postcommunist Europe.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... In Pursuit of Liberalism: International Institutions in Postcommunist Europe. BY RACHEL A. EPSTEIN. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, 288 pp. $55.00. Theorists and politicians like to think that international institutions, such as the...

Inside the Soviet Alternate Universe: The Cold War's End and the Soviet Union's Fall Reappraised.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Inside the Soviet Alternate Universe: The Cold War's End and the Soviet Union's Fall Reappraised. BY DICK COMBS. Penn State University Press, 2008, 384 pp. $29.95. Analysts and actors will long disagree over the reasons the Cold War ended...

Russia and the Balkans: Foreign Policy From Yeltsin to Putin.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Russia and the Balkans: Foreign Policy From Yeltsin to Putin. BY JAMES HEADLEY. Columbia University Press, 2008, 544 PP. $105.00. If one wants to know why it pays to dig deeply into the details of a country's foreign policy and not settle...

Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President.(Middle East)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President. EDITED BY RICHARD N. HAASS AND MARTIN INDYK. Brookings Institution Press, 2008, 288 pp. $24.95. The Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations have teamed...

The King's Messenger: Prince Bandar bin Sultan and America's Tangled Relationship With Saudi Arabia.(Middle East)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The King's Messenger: Prince Bandar bin Sultan and America's Tangled Relationship With Saudi Arabia. BY DAVID B. OTTAWAY. Walker and Company, 2008, 352 pp. $27.00. Prince Bandar bin Sultan was the Saudi ambassador to the United States from...

Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East.(Middle East)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East. BY GILLES KEPEL. Harvard University Press, 2008, 336 pp. $27.95. Kepel frames his account in terms of two concurrent, contending "grand narratives"--the Bush administration's...

Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf.(Middle East)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf. BY LAURENCE LOUER. Columbia University Press, 2008, 256 pp. $34.50. What better way to test the proposition that there is a politically powerful "Shiite crescent,"...

Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success.(Middle East)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success. BY CHRISTOPHER DAVIDSON. Columbia University Press, 2008, 320 pp. $32.50. The emirate of Dubai is the size of Rhode Island but has twice the number of people, who live in a sandy stretch of desert...

The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President. EDITED BY JEFFREY A. ENGEL. Princeton University Press, 2008, 576 pp. $29.95. In 1974 and 1975, between his tenure as chair of the Republican National Committee and...

Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes. BY M. TAYLOR FRAVEL. Princeton University Press, 2008, 408 pp. $70.00 (paper, $27.95). China's communist government inherited territorial disputes...

Reluctant Restraint: The Evolution of China's Nonproliferation Policies and Practices, 1980-2004.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Reluctant Restraint: The Evolution of China's Nonproliferation Policies and Practices, 1980-2004. BY EVAN S. MEDEIROS. Stanford University Press, 2007, 376 pp. $65.00. Specialists agree that China has largely come into compliance with the...

Social States: China in International Institutions, 1980-2000.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Social States: China in International Institutions, 1980-2000. BY ALASTAIR IAIN JOHNSTON. Princeton University Press, 2007, 273 pp. $60.00 (paper, $24.95). What is the process by which norms in the international system change the behavior...

Decentralized Authoritarianism in China: The Communist Party's Control of Local Elites in the Post-Mao Era.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Decentralized Authoritarianism in China: The Communist Party's Control of Local Elites in the Post-Mao Era. BY PIERRE F. LANDRY. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 320 pp. $85.00. Authoritarian regimes are typically thought of as...

Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan: Party, Bureaucracy, and Business.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan: Party, Bureaucracy, and Business. BY MARGARITA ESTEVEZ-ABE. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 360 pp. $80.00 (paper, $27.99). If Japan is a thin welfare state, as is generally thought, why is its...

Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart.(Africa)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart. BY TIM BUTCHER. Grove Press, 2008, 384 pp. $25.00. The decision by the British journalist Butcher to retrace the steps of Sir Henry Stanley in his 1876-77 descent of the Congo River, from...

Guns and Governance in the Rift Valley: Pastoralist Conflict and Small Arms.(Africa)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Guns and Governance in the Rift Valley: Pastoralist Conflict and Small Arms. BY KENNEDY AGADE MKUTU. Indiana University Press, 2008, 200 pp. $60.00 (paper, $22.95). In the dry and barren border region of northeastern Uganda and...

Kenya's Quest for Democracy: Taming Leviathan.(Africa)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Kenya's Quest for Democracy: Taming Leviathan. BY MAKAU MUTUA. Lynne Rienner, 2008, 331 pp. $65.00. The ethnic violence that disrupted the 2007 elections in Kenya is well analyzed in this account of that country's recent democratization...

Business and the State in Africa: Economic Policy-Making in the Neo-liberal Era.(Africa)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Business and the State in Africa: Economic Policy-Making in the Neo-liberal Era. BY ANTOINETTE HANDLEY. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 304 pp. $90.00 (paper, $34.99). A common explanation for the African continent's...

Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe: A Report on the Disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands, 1980-1988.(Africa)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2009... Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe: A Report on the Disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands, 1980-1988. BY THE CATHOLIC COMMISSION FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE AND THE LEGAL RESOURCES FOUNDATION. Columbia University Press, 2008, 448 pp. $34.50. This...

Defending the Golan Heights.(Letters to the Editor)(Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to Syria regarding military withdrawal from the Golan Heights)(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2009... To the Editor: The achievement of true peace between Israel and Syria is a laudable goal and could be a cornerstone of regional security. Unfortunately, in making the case for an Israeli-Syrian accord, Richard Haass and Martin Indyk...

A league of their own.(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2009... To the Editor: Charles Kupchan's contribution to the debate over how best to promote international cooperation in a globalized world ("Minor League, Major Problems," November/December 2008) is welcome. Unfortunately, his criticisms of...

Smallholders unite.(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2009... To the Editor: Paul Collier ("The Politics of Hunger," November/December 2008) sets out three priorities for overcoming the world food crisis: replacing peasant and smallholder farming with large-scale commercial farms, promoting...

Unclear nuclear logic?(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2009... To the Editor: The shift in U.S. nuclear policy advocated by Ivo Daalder and Jan Lodal ("The Logic of Zero," November/December 2008) might make sense for a number of important reasons--not least among them safety, cost, and reducing the...

Diagnosing USAID.(Letter to the editor)
March 1, 2009... To the Editor: The former U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) administrators J. Brian Atwood, M. Peter McPherson, and Andrew Natsios ("Arrested Development," November/December 2008) explain that despite the U.S. government's...

Foreign Affairs bestsellers: the top-selling hardcover books on American foreign policy and international affairs.(Brief article)(List)
March 1, 2009... 1. Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America. THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.95. 2. The Post-American World FAREED ZAKARIA. Norton, $25.95. 3. The War Within: A Secret White...