Foreign Affairs articles from May 1996

Foreign Affairs archives from May 1996

An Irish policy born in the U.S.A.: Clinton's break with the past.
May 1, 1996... Rarely in the history of Anglo-American relations has the White House overtly supported Irish demands against Great Britain on the Irish Question. The one clear instance--until recently--was President Andrew Johnson's courting of New York City's...

The case for Mexico's rescue: the peso package looks even better now.
May 1, 1996... One often hears claims that U.S. policy toward Mexico has failed. In Harper's the argument is that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) shows the Clinton administration has little concern with "the continuing hemorrhage of American...

Workers and the world economy.
May 1, 1996... BREAKING THE POSTWAR BARGAIN The global economy is leaving millions of disaffected workers in its train. Inequality, unemployment, and endemic poverty have become its handmaidens. Rapid technological change and heightening international...

Dealing with a Russia in turmoil.
May 1, 1996... THE FUTURE OF PARTNERSHIP Observing Russia's increasingly assertive foreign policy, assault on human rights in Chechnya, unfinished democracy and market economy, and endemic crime and corruption, some in the West have ridiculed the notion of...

Ukraine: Europe's linchpin.
May 1, 1996... PRESERVING INDEPENDENCE Five years after independence, Ukraine watches the nationalist turn in neighboring Russia with unease bordering on alarm. Much of the Russian political spectrum, obsessed with reclaiming great power status and reuniting...

China after Deng.(Deng Xiaoping)
May 1, 1996... COPING WELL WITH SUCCESSION Now that Deng Xiaoping, the architect of China's astounding economic advancement, is about to exit the scene, it is worth asking whether the era of post-deng politics has already begun. At 92, Deng is long past...

The myth of post-Cold War chaos.
May 1, 1996... THE 1945 ORDER LIVES ON A great deal of ink has been shed in recent years describing various versions of the post-Cold War order. These attempts have all failed, because there is no such creature. The world order created in the 1940s is still...

Reviving the West.(world politics)
May 1, 1996... FOR AN ATLANTIC UNION The west has cause to rejoice as this century draws to a close. The fundamental ideological and geopolitical cleavages of past decades are no more. Democracy and capitalism have triumphed over fascism and communism, and...

Globalizing free trade.
May 1, 1996... THE ASCENT OF REGIONALISM Economics success in today's world requires countries to liberalize to attract mobile international investment, which goes far to determine the distribution of global production, jobs, profits, and technology. Success...

God Has 99 Names: Reporting from a Militant Middle East.
May 1, 1996... BY JUDITH MILLER. New York: Simon Schuster, 1996, 512 pp. $27.50. Judith Miller masterfully deploys her insider's knowledge of the events and personalities behind the Islamization of politics in the Middle East. Former Cairo bureau chief of The...

Who Will Feed China? Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet.
May 1, 1996... BY LESTER R. BROWN. New York: W. W. Norton/Worldwatch Institute, 1995, 160 pp. $19-95 (paper, $8.95). World grain markets tightened sharply in 1995, bringing Malthusian worries back into fashion. A weather-related drop in corn production in...

The Ultimate Crime: Who Betrayed the U.N. and Why.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY LINDA MELVERN, London: Allison & Busby, 1995, 442 pp. $31.00. The sensationalist promotion of this book, from the picture of a decaying baby's corpse on the front cover to the title's suggestion that the author has uncovered a deep crime at...

Banal Nationalism.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY MICHAEL BILLIG. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1995, 200 pp. $65.00 (paper, $21.95). The author points out that in recent years nationalism has been associated almost exclusively with its extreme manifestations, such as in Serbia and Russia, leading...

International News and Foreign Correspondents.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY STEPHEN HESS. Washington: Brookings, 1996, 194 pp. $26.95. These two Brookings volumes detail how media coverage shapes foreign policy. Hess' volume documents the declining and increasingly superficial coverage of foreign events and its...

From Massacres to Genocide: The Media, Public Policy and Humanitarian Crises.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY ROBERT I. ROTBERG AND THOMAS G. WEISS. Washington: Brookings, 1996, 196 pp. $26.95. These two Brookings volumes detail how media coverage shapes foreign policy. Hess'volume documents the declining and increasingly superficial...

Rights Across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY DAVID JACOBSON. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, 181 pp. $33.50. This short but well-written book addresses a neglected aspect of the contemporary decline of the nation-state. It studies in depth the different criteria by...

The War Against Authority: From the Crisis of Legitimacy to a New Social Contract.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY NICHOLAS N. KITTRIE. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, 304 pp. $29.95. The title and introduction of this book are promising. Something like a global crisis of legitimacy has indeed emerged. In the United States, the rights...

Fairness in International Law and Institutions.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY THOMAS M. FRANCK. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, 500 pp. $55.00. This ambitious work begins with the premise that international law no longer has to defend its existence but can now make substantive progress, particularly on the...

Revolution and War.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY STEPHEN M. WALT. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996, 351 pp. $35.00. The author seeks to explain why revolutionary states often become embroiled in wars with their neighbors. The answer, derived from detailed case studies of the French,...

Enduring Western Civilization: The Construction of the Concept of Western Civilization and Its "Others."(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY SILVIA FEDERICI. Westport: Praeger, 1995, 210 pp. $55.00 (paper, $19.95). As the title suggests, the authors in this volume are not enamored of Western civilization and argue strongly for a multicultural curriculum to balance what...

Risky Business: An Insider's Account of the Disaster at Lloyd's of London.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY ELIZABETH LUESSENHOP AND MARTIN MAYER. New York: Scribner, 1995, 352 pp. $25.11. The failure of the Lloyd's of London insurance market win overshadow the collapse of Barings and may rival the U.S. savings and loan debacle as an example of...

Ultimate Risk: The Inside Story of the Lloyd's Catastrophe.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY ADAM RAPHAEL. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995,301 pp. $24.95. The failure of the Lloyd's of London insurance market win overshadow the collapse of Barings and may rival the U.S. savings and loan debacle as an example of the...

How Many People Can the Earth Support?(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY JOEL E. COHEN. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995, 416 pp. $27.50. With the earth's population greater than 5-5 billion people and predicted to rise to 7-5 billion over the next two decades, this books tide asks a perennial question. Cohen, a...

International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY HAROLD JAMES. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996, 742 pp. $45.00. A fine account of international monetary affairs from the end of the Second World War to the early 1990s. The International Monetary Fund commissioned the study for its...

The Political Economy of Trade Protection.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY ANNE O. KRUEGER. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996,112 pp. $24.95. These two books offer in brief, accessible form the results of two symposia by economists interested in public policy, both sponsored by the National Bureau...

Taxing Multinational Corporations.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY MARTIN FELDSTEIN ET AL. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, 113 pp. $21.50 (paper, $17.95). These two books offer in brief, accessible form the results of two symposia by economists interested in public policy, both sponsored...

The Genie out of the Bottle: World Oil Since 1970.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY M. A. ADELMAN. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995, 350 pp. $45.00. A well-known MIT specialist in oil economics, who published a book on the world petroleum market in 1972, offers a jaundiced view of U.S. policy toward OPEC over the past...

Bombing yo Win: Air Power and Coercion in War.
May 1, 1996... BY ROBERT A. PAPE. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995, 359 pp. $49.95 (paper, $19.95). This solidly constructed work concludes with some overly simple assertions: "Strategic bombing does not matter," "Punishment does not work," and the...

Why the Allies Won.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY RICHARD OVERY. New York: W.W.Norton,1996,396 pp. $29.95. A sharply different view from Papels. Overy, a professor of modern European history at the University of London, argues that "there has always seemed something fundamentally...

Thread of the Silkworm.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY IRIS CHANG. New York: BasicBooks, 1995, 329 pp. $27.50. Chang's book tells the fascinating biography of Tsien Hsue-shen, a brilliant Chinese scientist who played a central role in American rocket and space science during World War 11 and its...

Lights, Camera, War: Is Media Technology Driving International Politics?(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY JOHANNA NEUMAN. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996,320 pp. $23.95. A former White Houge and diplomatic correspondent and foreign editor for USA Today, Neuman began this book as an exploration of the so-called CNN effect in international...

Inside CIA's Private World: Declassified Articles from the Agency's Internal Journal, 1955-1992.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY H. BRADFORD WESTERFIELD. New Haven: Yale University Press, i995, 489 pp. $35.00. Perhaps the most interesting classified journal of all time is Studies in Intelligence, an in-house publication of the CIA. The CIA invited Westerfield,...

When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY DAVID M. GLANTZ AND JONATHAN HOUSE. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995, 414 pp. $29.95. It is difficult to write a readable operational account of the eastern front of World War II. The scale of the campaigns, the bewildering array...

Talking to Strangers: Improving American Diplomacy at Home and Abroad.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY MONTEAGLE STEARNS. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996, 201 pp. $24.95. An engaging and delightfully written plea for restoring the role of the professional diplomat in American foreign policy. Stearns, a career diplomat who served in...

On Infantry, rev. ed.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY JOHN A. ENGLISH AND BRUCE I. GUDMUNDSSON. Westport: Praeger, 1994, 216 pp. $65.00 (paper, $18.95). Underlying warfare on land, and perhaps warfare in general, is infantry combat--the combination of movement and fire by which armies take and...

Negotiating Cooperation: The United States and China, 1969-1989.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY ROBERT S. ROSS. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995, 349 pp. $39.50. A careful and rigorous examination of the factors that led the United States and China to "negotiate cooperation" from 1969 to 1989. Ross, a political scientist at...

The Public Dimension of Foreign Policy.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY DAVID D. NEWSOM. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996, 304 pp. $35.00 (paper, $16.95). Newsom, who served in the Foreign Service for 35 years and is currently a professor at the University of Virginia, examines the interplay between...

Threatened Peoples, Threatened Borders: World Migration and U.S. Policy.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY MICHAEL S. TEITELBAUM AND MYRON WEINER. New York: W. W. Norton, 1995, 300 pp. $25.00. This volume, the result of an American Assembly conference in late 1994, provides a comprehensive survey of the ways in which the United States...

Telltale Hearts: The Origins and Impact of the Vietnam Antiwar Movement.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY ADAM GARFINKLE. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, 370 pp. $24.95. A provocative and wide-ranging, if somewhat unwieldy, examination of the Vietnam antiwar movement, from its origins in traditions of dissent to its impact and continuing...

Bretton Woods and Dumbarton Oaks: American Economic and Political Postwar Planning in the Summer of 1944.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY GEORG SCHILD. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, 254 pp. $45.00. A solid account of the conferences that constructed the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the United Nations, the institutions intended to foster stable...

Crises in U.S. Foreign Policy: An International History Reader.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY MICHAEL H. HUNT. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, 447 pp. $40.00 (paper, $17.00). Hunt, a historian at North Carolina, examines seven episodes: American entry into World War I, the origins of World War II in the Pacific, the...

Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY DANIEL JONAH GOLDHAGEN. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996, 601 pp. $30.00. A challenging, powerfully argued, and morally passionate account of the extermination of the Jews by Nazi Germany. Goldhagen has done prodigious research in order to...

When Allies Differ: Anglo-American Relations During the Suez and Falkland Crises.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY LOUISE RICHARDSON. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996, 278 pp. $45.00. A gem, and a worthy successor to Richard Neustadt's Alliance Politics. The author gives not only thoroughly researched accounts of Suez and the Falklands, but also an...

The Politics of Democratic Consolidation: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY RICHARD GUNTHER ET AL. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, 493 pp. $60.00 (paper, $17.95). First in a series that will examine democratic transitions and consolidation in Spain, Greece, Italy, and Portugal. It is an...

Political Reformism in Mexico: An Overview of Contemporary Mexican Politics.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY STEPHEN D. MORRIS. Boulder: Lynn Rienner, 1995, 261 pp. $49.95 (paper, $19.95). De Tocqueville, Morris notes, observed that "the most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it begins to mend its ways." But in Mexico, the...

Democratizing Mexico: Public Opinion and Electoral Choices.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY JORGE I. DOMINGUEZ AND JAMES A. MCCANN. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, 269 pp. $45.00. De Tocqueville, Morris notes, observed that "the most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it begins to mend its ways." But...

Mexican Politics in Transition: The Breakdown of a One-Party-Dominant Regime.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY WAYNE A. CORNELIUS. San Diego: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 1996,122 pp. $11.95. De Tocqueville, Morris notes, observed that "the most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it begins to mend its ways." But in Mexico, the...

Mexico: From Montezuma to NAFTA, Chiapas, and Beyond.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY JAIME SUCHLICKI. Washington: Brassey's, 1996, 240 pp. $21.95. For anyone seeking a quick introduction to Mexico from the conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1519 to the troubled first year of Ernesto Zedillo's administration, a good starting place...

Brazil: Culture and Politics in a New Industrial Powerhouse.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY RONALD M. SCHNEIDER. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996, 2,55 pp. $65.00 (paper, $22.95). Brazil's population of African descent, roughly 79 million, is substantially greater than that in North America, the Caribbean, or any African country save...

The Brazilian Voter: Mass Politics in Democratic Transition, 1974-1986.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY KURT VON METTENHEIM. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995, 295 pp. $49.95. Brazil's population of African descent, roughly 79 million, is substantially greater than that in North America, the Caribbean, or any African country...

Coping with Austerity: Poverty and Inequality in Latin America.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY NORA LUSTIG. Washington: Brookings, 1995, 460 pp. $39.95. (paper, $18.95). Jointly sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Inter-American Dialogue, this study tackles some basic concerns about the sustainability of Latin...

Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY DMITRI VOLKOGONOV. New York: Free Press, 1996, 524 pp. $32.50. General Volkogonov did not live to see the English version of this biography from his remarkable trilogy. The first volume, on Stalin, was published in Russian in 1990; the third,...

Waking the Tempests: Ordinary Life in the New Russia.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY ELEANOR RANDOLPH. New York: Simon Schuster, 1996, 448 pp. $25.00. Far from the clash of politics and the confusion of economics, Randolph, a journalist for the Los Angeles Times, moves in the often seamy, decayed world of the average...

Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR, 1949-1989.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY MARY FULBROOK. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, 307 pp. $29-95. Fulbrook, a historian of modern Germany at University College in London, attacks the easy postmortem assessments of East Germany's regime. There are those who waved the...

Post-Soviet Puzzles: Mapping the Political Economy of the Former Soviet Union, 4 vols.
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY KLAUS SEGBERS AND STEPHAN DE SPIEGELEIRE. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1995, i726 pp. $98.00. This massive four-volume study, shepherded to completion by two scholars at the German Foundation for Science and Politics, is a fine-grained...

Modern Tsars and Princes: The Struggle for Hegemony in Russia.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY JEREMY LESTER. New York: Verso, 1995, 320 pp. $18.95. "Hegemony" here is used in the sense that Antonio Gramsci, the Italian communist, described. Lester's appropriation of it reminds one that the social science concepts dominant in most...

America and the Persian Gulf: The Third Party Dimension in World Politics.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... By STEVE A. YETIV. Westport: Praeger, 1995,18o pp. $49.95. Since the Iranian Revolution, those who have initiated the use of force in the Persian Gulf region have not fared well. The Soviets were unsuccessful in Afghanistan, Iraq failed in its...

Egypt from Monarchy to Republic: A Reassessment of Revolution and Change.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY SHIMON SHAMIR. Bouldei: Westview Press, 1995, 352 pp. $59.95. With the passage of time it becomes more difficult to argue that the 1952 revolution in Egypt was much of a revolution after all. As de Tocquevine noted, social and...

Refugees unto the Third Generation: U.N. Aid to Palestinians.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY BENJAMIN N. SCHIFF. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995, 337 pp. $49.95. The debate surrounding the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, created in 1950, sounds a bit like the debate over...

Qadhafi's Libya: 1969-1994.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY DIRK VANDEWALLE. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995, 256 pp. $49.95. American politicians are quick to label Libya a backlash state, but few know much about how its curious political system works. Colonel Muammar Qadhafi has...

Iraq's Crime of Genocide: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH/MIDDLE EAST. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, 373 pp. $35.10. Following the 1991 Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein's repressive rule, the Kurds captured literally tons of documents from the files of the Iraqi...

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY NORMAN G. FINKELSTEIN. New York: Verso, 1995, 243 pp. $34-95 (paper, $18.95). The prospects for war between Israel and the Arab nations may be fading, but the war of the historians rages on. For some years, revisionists have been...

The Middle East Economy: Decline and Recovery, Selected Essays by Charles Issawi.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY BERNARD LEWIS AND HEATH W. LOWRY. Princeton: Marcus Wiener Publishers, 199s, 239 pp. $34.95 (Paper, $16.95). Why did the Middle East, a region that once outstripped Europe in economic development, fall so far behind after the...

Les islamists algeriennes: entre les urnes et le maquis.
May 1, 1996... BY SEVERINE LABAT. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 199S, 344 pp. $26.00. Algeria is the only Arab country in which Islamists have nearly succeeded in coming to power through democratic elections. For many observers, the crisis has raised the question...

Practical Peacemaking in the Middle East, 2 vols.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY STEVEN L. SPIEGEL AND DAVID J. PERVIN. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995, 262 and 403 pp. $38.00 and $62.00. As part of the negotiating process begun in Madrid in October 1991, Arabs and Israelis, along with representatives of many...

Israeli-Palestinian Security: Issues in the Permanent Status Negotiations.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY JEFFREY BOUTWELL AND EVERETT MENDELSOHN. Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1995,124 pp. $10.00 (paper). As part of the negotiating process begun in Madrid in October 1991, Arabs and Israelis, along with representatives of...

Weaving the Net: Conditional Engagement with China.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY JAMES SHINN. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1996, 284 pp. $19.95 (paper). A well-reasoned argument for advancing American interests in Asia and a substantial contribution to the debate on China. The volume calls for...

Arming Japan: Defense Production, Alliance Politics, and the Postwar Search for Autonomy.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY MICHAEL J. GREEN. New York: Columbia University Press, 199S, 206 pp. $45.00. With the end of the Cold War, the tension between Japan's urge for independence and its need for alliance with the United States has grovvm. No other author has...

United States-Japan Relations and International Institutions After the Cold War.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY PETER GOUREVITCH, TAKASHI INOGUCHI, AND COURTNEY PURRINGTON. San Diego: University of California, San Diego, 1995, 390 pp. $5.00 (paper). Like most conference volumes, this book is uneven in quality, but it has an impressive density...

India and the Bomb: Public Opinion and Nuclear Options.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY DAVID CORTRIGHT AND AMITABH MATTOO. Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996, 160 pp. $29.95 (paper, $18.95). An intriguing study 6f what the Indian elite thinks about nuclear weapons. The data are taken from a specially...

Megatrends Asia: Eight Asian Megatrends That Are Reshaping Our World.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY JOHN NAISBITT. New York: Simon Schuster, 1996, 298 pp. $24.00. Another in the now common genre of flashy books on how Asia is set to rival and overtake the West in power and influence in the 21st century. What is missing is any mention, let...

Corazon Aquino and the Brushfire Revolution.(Brief Review)
May 1, 1996... BY ROBERT H. REID AND EILEEN GUERRERO. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995, 260 pp. $29.95. A balanced and thoughtful analysis of the Philippines in the years since the fall of Marcos is very much needed. Unfortunately, this...

The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY GIRARD PRUNIER. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995, 389 pp. $29-95. These books lay bare the grisly events and complex causes of the orchestrated slaughter of Rwanda's Tutsis, which took place over the three-month period beginning...

Rwanda: Death, Despair, and Defiance, rev. ed.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... London: African Rights, 1995,1201 pp. $40.00 (paper). These books lay bare the grisly events and complex causes of the orchestrated slaughter of Rwanda's Tutsis, which took place over the three-month period beginning April 6, 1994. All broadly...

Rwanda Not So Innocent: When Women Become Killers.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... London: African Rights, 1995, 255 pp. $40.00 (paper, $13.95). These books lay bare the grisly events and complex causes of the orchestrated slaughter of Rwanda's Tutsis, which took place over the three-month period beginning April 6, 1994. All...

Rwanda and Genocide in the Twentieth Century.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY ALAIN DESTEXHE. New York: New York University Press, 1995, 102 pp. $19.95. These books lay bare the grisly events and complex causes of the orchestrated slaughter of Rwanda's Tutsis, which took place over the three-month period beginning...

Corruption, Democracy, and Human Rights in East and Central Africa.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... EDITED BY AYODELE ADERINWALE. Abeokuta: Africa Leadership Forum, 199S, 167 pp. $20.00(paper). Among the major industrialized nations, the United States alone forbids bribes by businesses seeking foreign contracts. Elsewhere a culture of...

A Life.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY MAMPHELA RAMPHELE. Cape Town: David Philip, 1995, 2z4 pp. $16.85 (paper). Ramphele, recently appointed vice chancellor of South Africa's top-ranked University of Cape Town, is one of the most remarkable figures to emerge in a leadership...

The Eritrean Struggle for Independence: Domination, Resistance, Nationalism, 1941-1993.(Brief Article)
May 1, 1996... BY RUTH IYOB. Newyork: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 214 pp. $49.95. A straightforward, competent account of the development and eventual triumph of the Eritrean independence movement. The author first considers the global and regional...

The Cuban illusion: keeping the heat on Castro. (U.S. policy toward Cuba)(response to article by Wayne S. Smith, Foreign Affairs, vol. 75, March-April 1996)
May 1, 1996... Wayne S. Smith compares Fidel Castro's Cuba to Francisco Franco's Spain to argue that engagement, rather than isolation, is the best way to promote Cuba's peaceful transition to democracy and a market economy ("Cuba's Long Reform," March/ April...

The mark of Bosnia: Boutros-Ghali's reign of indifference.(response to Boutros Boutros-Ghali's article, Foreign Affairs, vol. 75, March-April 1996)
May 1, 1996... "I wondered if the train I was on was that of the United Nations or the League of Nations," said Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a former prime minister of Poland, when he resigned in protest in 1995 from his assignment as the U.N. special rapporteur on...

Turkey: the emerging market bridging East and West.(sponsored section)
May 1, 1996... The Republic of Turkey has one of the most vibrant economies in Eurasia. Standing at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, it holds the added attraction of serving as a major trading link between East and West. Turkey's connections with neighboring...