Foreign Affairs articles from May 1995

Foreign Affairs archives from May 1995

The lessons of Somalia: not everything went wrong.
May 1, 1995... Under the protection of a U.S. military umbrella, the United Nations extricated itself from Somalia in early March 1995. The exit went well and may serve as a model for pulling U.N. peacekeepers out of the former Yugoslavia and other places where...

Preserving the new peace: the case against NATO expansion.
May 1, 1995... Proponents of extending NATO membership to the Visegrad countries--Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia--can be divided into two camps. Those in the first camp assert that the purpose is solely to promote democracy and free markets...

Alchemy for a new world order: overselling 'preventive diplomacy.'
May 1, 1995... A defining characteristic of the post-Cold War era has been the disjuncture between its complex, horrifying events--anarchy in Somalia, civil war in the former Yugoslavia, genocide in Rwanda--and the presumption among some foreign policy elites...

Selecting the world's CEO: remembering the secretaries-general.
May 1, 1995... During periods of international disaster, a troubled world feels the need for an outstanding full-time supervisor. At first, with the horrors of World War I still fresh in their minds, the founders of the League of Nations considered calling the...

Is Iran's present Algeria's future? (Fundamentalism in Power)
May 1, 1995... Can one negotiate with Muslim fundamentalists? The United States is in the process of testing this crucial question, on which may hang the future of Western relations with the Muslim world. Late in 1993, U.S. diplomats began discreet discussions...

Sudan's Islamic experiment.(Fundamentalism in Power)
May 1, 1995... Within the Arab world, Sudan is unique. Other Arab countries appear to be slipping inexorably into fundamentalism. Sudan, by contrast, is the only state in our age that has formally opted for Islam as its system of government. By its own...

The Israel-PLO accord is dead.(Fundamentalism in Power)
May 1, 1995... THE FAILURE OF OSLO The Declaration of Principles signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) at the White House on September 13, 1993, is for all intents and purposes dead. The repeated atrocities by Palestinian suicide...

Egyptian-Israeli relations turn sour.(Fundamentalism in Power)
May 1, 1995... A COLD PEACE GETS ARCTIC FAR MORE threatening to the Middle East peace process than the increase in bloody attacks by Islamic militants against Israelis are the recent strains in Egyptian-Israeli relations. For the last five months,...

Democratization and war.
May 1, 1995... The idea that democracies never fight wars against each other has become an axiom for many scholars. It is, as one scholar puts it, "as close as anything we have to an empirical law in international relations." This "law" is invoked by American...

Heading off war in the southern Balkans.
May 1, 1995... BOSNIA AND MACEDONIA: TWINS In the month prior to late June 1991, when war engulfed the former Yugoslavia, the presidents of two constituent republics, Alija Izetbegovid of Bosnia and Kiro Gligorov of Macedonia, spared no effort trying to...

Toward post-heroic warfare.
May 1, 1995... THE OBSOLESCENCE OF TOTAL WAR Only one thing could possibly link the protracted warfare in the former Yugoslavia, the destruction of Grozny, and the recent border fighting between Ecuador and Peru. Once more, as in centuries past, wars are...

Why the IMF needs reform. (International Monetary Fund)
May 1, 1995... THE HALIFAX CHALLENGE AT THEIR next summit in Halifax this June, the leaders of the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized nations have set themselves the task of revising the Bretton Woods framework, which is widely credited as a foundation of...

Overcoming the legacies of dictatorship.
May 1, 1995... NEW DEMOCRACIES, OLD WOUNDS "No one touches anyone," warned General Augusto Pinochet in October 1989, two months before Chile's first free elections since his 1973 coup. "The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law ends. This I say once...

The wrong kind of loyalty: McNamara's apology for Vietnam.(Robert McNamara, former Secretary of Defense)
May 1, 1995... BY ROBERT S. MCNAMARA. New York: Times Books, 1995, 356 pp. $33.95. As much as any other individual, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara personified the American commitment in Vietnam. He was "the can-do man in the can-do society in the...

In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam.
May 1, 1995... BY ROBERT S. MCNAMARA. New York: Times Books, 1995, 356 pp. $33.95. As much as any other individual, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara personified the American commitment in Vietnam. He was "the can-do man in the can-do society in the...

In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur -- the Generation that Changed America's Role in the World.
May 1, 1995... BY DAVID FROMKIN. New York: Knopf, 1995. $30-00. We have here a popular history of American foreign policy from the end of the nineteenth century almost up to the present. It centers around the great political and military leaders born in the...

The myth of American isolationism: reinterpreting the past.
May 1, 1995... In the Time of the Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur--the Generation that Changed American Role in the World. BY DAVID FROMKIN. New York: Knopf, 1995. $30-00. We have here a popular history of American foreign policy from...

Utopia Lost: The United Nations and World Order.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY ROSEMARY RIGHTER. New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 1995, 421 pp. $29.95. This frank and tough-minded appraisal argues that the United Nations has developed so complex and dysfunctional a structure and is based on such inherently...

The Deadly Sin of Terrorism: Its Effects on Democracy and Civil Liberty in Six Countries.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... EDITED BY DAVID A. CHARTERS. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994, 247 pp. $55.00 This book, comparing antiterrorist campaigns in six democracies (the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Israel, and the United States), actually contains...

The Vulnerability of Empire.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY CHARLES A. KUPCHAN. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994, 527 pp. $35.00. This book purports to explain why imperial powers pursue policies that are ultimately self-undermining. The author argues that sudden shifts in the international...

Wilsonian Idealism in America.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY DAVID STEIGERWALD. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994, 296 pp. $35.00. Unlike many books on Wilsonianism that deal narrowly with Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy legacy, this study looks at Wilson, Raymond Fosdick, Walter Lippmann, and...

Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY MICHAEL WALZER. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994, 108 pp. $16.95. This volume by one of America's foremost moralists makes the case for distinguishing between "minimalist" moral principles, which can be applied between...

Peripheral Visions: Deterrence Theory and American Foreign Policy in the Third World, 1965-1990.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY TED HOPF. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994, 306 PP. $49.50. In an exhaustive analysis of Soviet documents, the author argues that the deterrence theory that underlay American policy in the Third World and led to involvements in...

Democracy and American Foreign Policy: Reflections on the Legacy of Alexis de Toqueville.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY ROBERT STRAUSZ-HUPE. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1995, 183 pp. $32.95. The only word that comes to mind in describing this series of musings by one of America's inveterate diplomats and scholars is "unexceptionable." The author,...

Referendums Around the World: The Growing Use of Direct Democracy.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... EDITED BY DAVID BUTLER AND AUSTIN Ranney. Washington: AEI Press, 1994, 304 pp. $19.95. (paper). This volume suggests that referenda are not the threat to representative democracy and stability they are sometimes made out to be. Looking at the...

U.S. Intervention Policy for the Post-Cold War World: New Challenges and New Responses.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... EDITED BY ARNOLD KANTER AND LINTON F. BROOKS. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995, 256 pp. $25.00. The end of the Cold War has made the world more disorderly and so has multiplied the opportunities for American military intervention abroad. The end of...

The Market Meets Its Match: Restructuring the Economies of Eastern Europe.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY ALICE H. AMSDEN, JACEK KOCHANOWICZ, AND LANCE TAYLOR. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995, 250 pp. $35.00. These two books deal critically with the economic reforms of the early 1990s in formerly communist countries, although from...

Lost Opportunity: Why Economic Reforms in Russia Have Not Worked.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY MARSHALL I. GOLDMAN. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994,290 pp. $22-50. These two books deal critically with the economic reforms of the early 1990s in formerly communist countries, although from quite different angles. Goldman's book is a lively...

Currencies and Politics in the United States, Germany, and Japan.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY C. RANDALL HENNING. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1994, 406 pp. $25-00 (paper). Henning, a political scientist, addresses the formulation and execution of monetary policy, with emphasis on its international aspects, in...

Straitjacket Society: An Insider's Irreverent View of Bureaucratic Japan.
May 1, 1995... BY MASAO MIYAMOTO. New York: Kodansha International, 1994, 197 pp. $22.00. This short book is both funny and saddening. It documents one man's struggle with Japanese bureaucracy as a member of it. The author is a psychiatrist with ten years'...

The Road to Monetary Union in Europe: The Emperor, the Kings, and the Genies.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY TOMMASO PADOA-SCHIOPPA. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 286 pp. $49.95. Padoa-Schioppa is deputy director general of the Bank of Italy, that most cerebral branch of the government that has provided Italy with two technocratic prime...

The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY GEOFFREY BEST. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 434 pp. $39.9S. Two different, complementary, and important books. Howard, Andreopoulos, and Shulman have edited a fine collection of essays that are organized chronologically and are...

War and Law Since 1945.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... EDITED BY MICHAEL HOWARD, GEORGE J. ANDREOPOULOS, AND MARK R. SHULMAN. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994,303 $30.00. Two different, complementary, and important books. Howard, Andreopoulos, and Shulman have edited a fine collection of...

Child Soldiers: The Role of Children in Armed Conflicts.(Brief Review)
May 1, 1995... BY GUY GOODWIN-GILL AND ILENE COHN. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 228 pp. $39.95 (paper, $17.95). This study for the Henry Dunant Institute in Geneva documents and suggests remedies for the pervasive use of children as soldiers. The...

Peace Operations: Field Manual 100-23.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY. Washington: Department of the Army, 1994,131 pp. A valiant attempt to reduce the messiness of peacemaking, peace enforcement, and various other muddy missions of the U.S. Army in the Somalias, Kurdistans,...

Information Warfare: Chaos on The Electronic Superhighway.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY WINN SCHWARTAU. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1994,432 pp. $22.95. Alarmist and shrill, this is nonetheless a useful book about the dark side of the information age. The author insists that all are vulnerable to electronic snooping and...

The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY SCOTT D. SAGAN AND KENNETH N. WALTZ. New York: W W. Norton, 199S, 170 pp. $16.95. Sagan and Waltz have taken two recent, divergent articles and added a pair of rebuttals. The result is a short and worthwhile but inconclusive debate about...

Prodigal Soldiers: How the Generation of Officers Born of Vietnam Revolutionized the American Style of War.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY JAMES KITFIELD. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995, 477 pp. $25.00. The acknowledgments here are suggestive: the author thanks generals and admirals for their interviews and guidance. A good book, but an inside story told to a sympathetic...

Implementing the Comprehensive Test Ban: New Aspects of Definition, Organization, and Verification.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... EDITED BY ERIC ARNETT. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, 128 pp. $39.95 (paper, $26.00). Largely a technical study. The authors are firm proponents of a comprehensive nuclear test ban (American reservations prior to the Clinton...

Trial by Fire: The 1972 Easter Offensive, America's Last Vietnam Battle.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY DALE ANDRADA. New York: Hippocrene Books, 1995, 600 pp. $24.95. A solid and well-recounted narrative of the penultimate communist Vietnamese attempt to end the conflict, this book fills an important gap in the history of the Vietnam War....

Temptations of a Superpower.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY RONALD STEEL. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995, 144 pp. $18.95. This short volume, based on the inaugural Goldman lecture at the Library of Congress, is an eloquent meditation on the role of the United States in the world. Steel, a...

Security and Sacrifice: Isolation, Intervention, and American Foreign Policy.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY ELLIOTT ABRAMS. Indianapolis: Hudson Institute, 1995, 150 pp. $19.95 (paper, $12.95). This compact and readable volume by a neoconservative who served in the Reagan administration articulates a post-cold War foreign policy that attempts to...

Beyond NATO: Staying Out of Europe's Wars.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY TED GALEN CARPENTER. Washington: Cato Institute, 1994, 172 pp. $18.95 (paper, $9.95) This policy brief begins by presenting a battery of arguments against NATO expansion and ends by questioning whether the Atlantic alliance should continue...

Hard Bargain: How F.D.R. Twisted Churchill's Arm, Evaded the Law, and Changed the Role of the American Presidency.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY ROBERT SHOGAN. New York: Scribner, 1995, 310 pp. $24.00. An absorbing account of the destroyers-for-bases deal between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in early September 1940. Despite Churchill's urgent pleas, culminating in his...

Cold War Illusions: America, Europe, and Soviet Power, 1969-1989.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY DANA H. ALLIN. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, 26o pp. $39.95. "Who won the Cold War?" is a question that continues to attract a cottage industry of books and essays. Allin, deputy director of the Aspen Institute in Berlin, is intent on...

Canada and the United States: Ambivalent Allies.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY JOHN HERD THOMPSON AND STEPHEN J. RANDALL. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994,387 pp. $45.00 (paper, $18-95). The ninth volume in a distinguished series, edited by Lester Langley, on the United States and the Americas. Thompson and...

The Hollow Years: France in the 1930s.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY EUGEN WEBER. New York: W W. Norton, 1994,352 pp. $25-00. An authority on French history has written a brilliant survey of the key aspects of French life in the decade before the debacle. A pointillist approach--full of individual...

Ambassador Frederic Sackett and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic, 1930-1933: The United States and Hitler's Rise to Power.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY BERNARD V. BURKE. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 330 pp. $44-95. In 1930, President Hoover dispatched Sackett, a Kentucky senator with strong mining interests and fervent anticommunism, Berlin. Sackett established the...

Rich Relations: The American Occupation of Britain, 1942-1945.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY DAVID REYNOLDS. New York: Random House, 199S, 555 pp. $30-00. A brilliant study of what the massive presence of G.I.s in wartime Britain meant to the English and to American troops--of which there were 1.5 million just before D-Day and...

The Secret State: British Internal Security in the Twentieth Century.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY RICHARD THURLOW. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1994, 458 pp. $44.95. A British historian tackles the elusive story of official surveillance, security arrangements, and counterintelligence in the context of the great challenges to British...

The End of an Era? Europe, 1945-1990s.(Brief Review)
May 1, 1995... EDITED BY ANTONIO VARSORI. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, 449 pp. 59-95. A collection of papers written for a 1991 Florence conference. There are 21 Studies of various aspects of European politics and security from the end of the...

France, Germany, and the Western Alliance.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY PHILIP H. GORDON. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995, 127 pp. $39-95 (paper, $14-95). A succinct analysis of Franco-German relations in matters of defense and foreign policy. The author, a British student of French and strategic affairs,...

The Politics of the Possible: The Brazilian Rural Workers' Trade Union Movement, 1964-1985.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY BIORN MAYBURY-LEWIS. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994, 297 pp. $19-95 (paper). Few foreigners have so intimate an engagement with Brazil as Maybury-Lewis, currently a professor at the University of Amazonas. Living as a...

Identities in North America: The Search for Community.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... EDITED BY ROBERT L. EARLE AND JOHN D. WIRTH. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995, 256 pp. $45.00 (paper, $14.95). With or without NAFTA, powerful economic and social forces are bringing the United States, Mexico, Canada, and their...

Rethinking Protestantism in Latin America.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... EDITED BY VIRGINIA GARRARD-BURNETT AND DAVID STOLL. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993, 234 pp. $18-95 (paper). Edited by two leading specialists on Latin American Protestantism, Virginia Gerrard-Burnet of the University of...

Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY DAVID RIEFF. NEW York: Simon & Schuster, 1995, 240 pp. $22.00. Rieff is twice different from other commentators on the Balkans. First, for him, the issue is settled; the disaster is complete; Bosnia is destroyed, with nothing to be saved....

Bosnia and Hercegovina: A Tradition Betrayed.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY ROBERT J. DONIA AND JOHN V. A. FINE, JR. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, 318 pp. $24-95. In a quiet, detached way the authors of this study make the tragedy of Bosnia seem all the more monstrous. They are two historians:...

Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY J. MICHAEL WALLER. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994, 390 pp. $57.10 (paper, $19.95). This is a valuable book. Set aside Waller breathless discovery that Gorbachev was a committed communist, who sought to preserve the system while...

The Living and the Dead: The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY NINA TUMARKIN. New York: Basic Books, 1994, 242 pp. $25.00. As a historian, Tumarkin is an iconographer--an intensely involved student of two of the Soviet Union's three great the cult of Lenin and the cult of the Great Patriotic War, the...

A Long Walk to Church: A Contemporary History of Russian Orthodoxy.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY NATHANIEL DAVIS. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995, 381 pp. $75.00 (paper, $27.50). For the general reader interested in religion in Russia--and, considering the important role of Russian Orthodoxy in the country, many should be--this is now...

Israel and the Peace Process, 1977-1982: In Search of Legitimacy for Peace.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY YAACOV BAR-SIMAN-TOV. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994, 338 pp. $21.95 (paper). Major foreign policy shifts come not just from war and conflict, but also from serious moves toward peace. Bar-Siman-Tov shows in convincing...

The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969-1994.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY EDWARD W. SAID. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994, 450 pp. $27.50. Few interested in the contemporary Middle East will not be familiar with Edward Said. An articulate, passionate, and often angry voice on behalf of Palestinian rights, Said has...

The Superpowers and the Middle East: Regional and International Politics, 1955-1967.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY FAWAZ A. GERGES. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994, 274 pp. $60.00 (paper, $18.95). This is an excellent first book by a young Lebanese scholar. He brings analytical sophistication and detailed knowledge of a wide variety of sources to bear on...

Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication, Culture, and the Iranian Revolution.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY ANNABELLE SREBERNY-MOHAMMADI AND ALI Mohammadi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994, 225 pp. $44.95 (paper, $17.95). The authors make no secret of their political sympathies: they opposed the shah's regime and hoped to see a...

Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Jihad.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY ZIAD ABU-AMR. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994, 169 pp. $19.95 (paper, $10.95). As Yasir Arafat struggles to make something out of the flawed agreement that he signed with Israel on the White House lawn, his most vigorous...

The Twilight of British Ascendancy in the Middle East: A Case Study of Iraq, 1941-1950.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY DANIEL SILVERFARB. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 306 pp. $49.95. As British and American archives become available to historians of the modern Middle East, a number of good case studies of the 1940s and 1950s are being written. This...

Western Dominance and Political Islam: Challenge and Response.(Brief Review)
May 1, 1995... BY KHALED BIN SAYEED. ALBANY: State University of New York Press, 1994, 197 pp. $19.95 (paper). For those whose view of Islamic political movements has been excessively skewed by the media portrayal of Islamic fundamentalism, the author offers...

The Other Side of Deception: A Rogue Agent Exposes the Mossad's Secret Agenda.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY VICTOR OSTROVSKY. NEW York: Harpercollins, 1994, 315 pp. $24.00. In 1990, Victor Ostrovsky wrote By Way of Deception, which contained convincing tidbits about Mossad recruitment methods and operations. How much was true could not easily be...

Contemporary Syria: Liberalization Between Cold War and Cold Peace.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... EDITED BY EBERHARD KIENLE. London: British Academic Press, 1994 187 pp. $59.95. A conference volume based on two-year-old papers by leading Syria specialists. The common concern of most authors is economic liberalization. Will Syria find that...

The Politics of Pan-Islam: Ideology and Organization, Revised and Updated.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY JACOB M. LANDAU. NEW York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 438 pp. $19.95 (paper). Originally published in 1990, this distinguished history has been revised and updated, especially to take into account the new Islamic republics of the former...

Democracy in Japan: The Emerging Global Concern.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY FRANK MCNEIL. NEW York: Crown Publishers, 1994, 28o pp. $25.00. Although the American media remains myopically focused on trade issues with Japan, the current crisis in Japan's democratic institutions raises more fundamental questions: How...

India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir Dispute: On Regional Conflict and its Resolution.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY ROBERT G. WIRSING. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 337 pp. $45.00. This is one of the most thoroughly researched, thoughtful, and balanced accounts of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan in many years. It concludes with a...

The Sino-Indian Border Dispute and Sino-Indian Relations.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY XUECHENG LIU. New York: University Press of America, 1994, 221 pp. $46.50. This volume by a young Chinese scholar who is now associated with the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is valuable for...

The Central Asian Republics: Fragments of Empire, Magnets of Wealth.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY CHARLES UNDERLAND AND NICHOLAS PLATT. New York: The Asia Society, 1994, 143 pp. $9.95 (paper). A brief but valuable introduction to developments in the five Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, the Kirghiz Republic, Tajikistan,...

Bridging the Strait: Taiwan, China, and the Prospects for Reunification.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY HSIN-HSING WU. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994,346 pp. $75.00. The relationship between Taiwan and the People's Republic of China is one of the most critical bilateral relationships in East Asia. China refuses to give up the right...

A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY ADAM SCHWARZ. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994, 371 pp. $55.00 (paper, $19.95). The author of this admirable volume is a correspondent with the Far Eastern Economic Review who lived and worked in Indonesia from 1988 to 1992.As thoughtful an...

To Catch a Tartar: A Dissident in Lee Kuan Yew's Prison.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY FRANCIS T. SEOW. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1944, 293 pp. $22.00 (paper). Francis T. Seow recounts his experiences as a government official and dissenter under the autocratic government of Lee Kuan Yew. Since the...

Dealing With the Past: Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... EDITED BY ALEX BORAINE, JANET LEVY, AND RONEL SCHEFFER. Cape Town: Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 1994, 175 pp. $15-75. When a transition from minority rule to democracy takes place through negotiation rather than outright victory for...

Landmines in Mozambique.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH/AFRICA AND HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH ARMS PROJECT. New York: Human Rights Watch, March 1994, 119 pp. $10.00 (paper). Documenting and publicizing the human costs of wars is of enormous importance, even though it might seem that...

African Refugees: Development Aid and Repatriation.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... EDITED BY HOWARD ADELMAN AND JOHN SORENSON. Boulder: Westview Press/North York: York Lanes Press, 1994, 264 pp. $49.95/ Every refugee crisis is unique, but the cumulative experiences of host governments, relief and development agencies, and...

Easy Prey: Child Soldiers in Liberia.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH/AFRICA AND HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH S RIGHTS PROJECT. New CHILDREN York: Human Rights Watch, September 1994, 80 pp. $7.00 (paper). Documenting and publicizing the human costs of wars is of enormous importance, even though it...

Education in the Development of Tanzania: 1919-1990.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY LENE BUCHERT. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1994, 192 pp. $39.95 (paper, $19.95). A detailed retrospective of education in Tanzania, highlighting parallels and continuities between the colonial and independence periods and analyzing the...

Apartheid's Contras: An Inquiry into the Roots of War in Angola and Mozambique.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1995... BY WILLIAM MINTER. Atlantic Highlands: Zed Books, 1994,3o8 pp. $69.95 (paper, $29.95). Two decades of carnage followed bloody but successful nationalist wars of independence in Mozambique and Angola. What caused these tragic and destructive...

The propaganda way. (freedom of speech in Asian democracies)
May 1, 1995... A great deal has been made of the World Bank's announcement that the high rates of economic growth in the East Asian miracle economies stem from getting the fundamentals right. While that observation emphasized astute macroeconomics, various...