Foreign Affairs articles from May 1994

Foreign Affairs archives from May 1994

Why pressure Tokyo? The U.S.-Japan rift. (trade)
May 1, 1994... The strained relations between Japan and the United States cannot be explained by spurious charges that the Clinton administration is pushing managed trade, capitalizing on anti-Japanese sentiment to score domestic political points or...

Samurais no more: the U.S.-Japan rift. (balance of trade)
May 1, 1994... The failure of the February 11 Hosokawa Clinton summit in Washington to produce a trade agreement on U.S. terms was marked by theatrics on the America side. Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman's banter was typical. He declared, with the...

America's arms-trade monopoly: lagging sales will starve lesser suppliers.
May 1, 1994... For the first time in modern history, one country is on the verge of monopolizing the international arms trade. Rising costs and declining defense budgets are putting pressure on the world's inefficient defense producers, and most of them are...

APEC and world trade: a force for worldwide liberalization. (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation)
May 1, 1994... Contrary to most expectations about regional economic organizations, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum is poised to become a driving force for worldwide trade liberalization. There is already strong evidence for this...

Bursting China's bubble: the muddle kingdom?
May 1, 1994... Part of the problem of analyzing China has long been that any critical view is seen as anti-Chinese. Simply to question the accomplishments of a 4,000-year-old civilization is taken as evidence of bias and, generally speaking, broad-gauge...

China's changing shape: the muddle kingdom?
May 1, 1994... THE CHINESE IDENTITY CRISIS At the very moment when China seems poised to regain its former power, doubts are growing about precisely what China is. China's economy appears set to become the world's largest, by some measures as early as...

The lagging partnership. (Russia and the US)
May 1, 1994... In August 1991, addressing a mass rally in Moscow in the wake of the failed communist coup, I officially stated something that had been just an idea before: the United States and other Western democracies are as natural friends and eventual...

The Zhirinovsky threat. (Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky)
May 1, 1994... In the ongoing drama of what Russia is to be - state or empire, democracy or autocracy - Vladimir Zhirinovsky has shouldered his way to center stage with a bellicose, attention-grabbing performance. Some Russian and Western observers have...

In defense of liberal nationalism.
May 1, 1994... THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL FORCE The simple idea that every nation should have its own state - accompanied by the corollary that one ethnic or cultural group should not collectively rule over another - has been the most powerful...

Nations without states.
May 1, 1994... SELF-DETERMINATION RECONSIDERED In the twentieth century, the great powers allocated territories and permitted the creation of new states on the basis of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination. They invoked ethnic principles for...

Reflections on containment. (Soviet Union)
May 1, 1994... THE SUCCESS AND PAIN OF THE STRATEGY No Matter what Wilsonian-minded American statesmen, called them, by late 194S spheres of influence were emerging across Europe, and they were to remain in place until the collapse of communism four...

Diplomacy.
May 1, 1994... Diplomacy. BY HENRY KISSINGER. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994, 912 pp. $35.00. Henry Kissinger has never written anything less than magna opera, but this 1,000-page blockbuster must certainly qualify as his maximum opus. Its title is...

Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War.
May 1, 1994... The Gulf War appears, in retrospect, a study in emotional extremes disproportionate to its fundamental reality. A relatively weak and isolated Third World country, whose gross national product was perhaps a third the size of the U.S. defense...

The Generals' War.
May 1, 1994... The Gulf War appears, in retrospect, a study in emotional extremes disproportionate to its fundamental reality. A relatively weak and isolated Third World country, whose gross national product was perhaps a third the size of the U.S. defense...

Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World's War.
May 1, 1994... The Gulf War appears, in retrospect, a study in emotional extremes disproportionate to its fundamental reality. A relatively weak and isolated Third World country, whose gross national product was perhaps a third the size of the U.S. defense...

A Woman at War: Storming Kuwait with the U.S. Marines.
May 1, 1994... The Gulf War appears, in retrospect, a study in emotional extremes disproportionate to its fundamental reality. A relatively weak and isolated Third World country, whose gross national product was perhaps a third the size of the U.S. defense...

It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman H. Schwarzkopf.
May 1, 1994... The Gulf War appears, in retrospect, a study in emotional extremes disproportionate to its fundamental reality. A relatively weak and isolated Third World country, whose gross national product was perhaps a third the size of the U.S. defense...