Foreign Affairs articles from May 2002

Foreign Affairs archives from May 2002

The Last of the Patriarchs.(Ariel Sharon)
May 1, 2002... THE BULLDOZER Just over a year ago, on March 7, 2001, Ariel Sharon took office as Israel's eleventh prime minister, having beaten his predecessor, Ehud Barak, in a landslide. Sharon's election seemed like the ultimate expression of Israeli...

The New Way of War? Debating the Kosovo Model.
May 1, 2002... War Over Kosovo. edited by ANDREW J. BACEVICH and ELIOT A. COHEN. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001, 256 pp. $49.50 (paper, $22.50). NATO's Air War for Kosovo. by BENJAMIN S. LAMBETH. Santa Monica: Rand, 2001, 276 pp. $20.00...

Korea's Place in the Axis.(North Korea)(George W. Bush's "axis of evil")
May 1, 2002... METHOD OR MADNESS? On January 29, President George W. Bush announced what seemed a new U.S. policy toward the Korean Peninsula -- and threw observers worldwide into confusion. In his state of the union address that night, Bush outlined the...

Toward Biological Security.
May 1, 2002... MISPLACED ANALOGIES The anthrax attacks on the United States in the autumn of 2001, and the fear and confusion that followed, made clear that the country lacks a comprehensive strategy for biological security -- the protection of people...

A Tale of Two Secretaries.(Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld)
May 1, 2002... THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION It takes remarkably little time for a Washington witticism to become a cliche. Such has been the case recently with the quip that Donald Rumsfeld may not have been a very good secretary of defense, but he is a...

India's Fine Balance.
May 1, 2002... THE POST-9/11 AGENDA When September 11 came, India responded rapidly and decisively. On learning of the terrorist attacks on the United States, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee convened his key advisers and they quickly decided that...

The Last Negotiation: How to End the Middle East Peace Process.
May 1, 2002... CUT TO THE CHASE Since the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and the outbreak of the second intifada, two propositions have gained wide acceptance. The first is that trying to find a comprehensive solution to end the...

The Liberal Lion: Understanding Churchill's Life and Politics.
May 1, 2002... Churchill: A Biography. by ROY JENKINS. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001, 1,002 pp. $40.00. When a critic charged that Oliver Goldsmith had written The Vicar of Wakefield for the money, Samuel Johnson is said to have replied, "No...

A Flawed Masterpiece.(Afghanistan Conflict 2001-)
May 1, 2002... ASSESSING THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGN Throughout most of the twentieth century, the U.S. armed forces were seen as an overmuscled giant, able to win wars through brute strength but often lacking in daring and cleverness. This basic strategy worked...

The Turmoil Within.
May 1, 2002... What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. by BERNARD LEWIS. New York: Oxford University Press, 180 pp. $23.00. Jihad: Expansion and Decline of the Islamist Movement. by GILLES KEPEL. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 464 pp.,...

Transforming the Military.(planning US military policy for the 21st century, according to Donald Rumsfeld)
May 1, 2002... RIDING INTO THE FUTURE Just before Christmas last year, I traveled to Afghanistan and the neighboring countries, where I had the opportunity to spend time with American troops in the field. Among the many I met was an extraordinary group...

What Makes Greenhouse Sense?(Kyoto Protocol)
May 1, 2002... The Kyoto Protocol should not be a partisan issue. The percentage reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions to which the United States committed itself by signing the 1997 Protocol to the 1992 un Framework Convention on Climate Change was probably...

Farming the Genetic Frontier.
May 1, 2002... BRAVE NEW WORLD? For more than ten thousand years, farmers have improved their crops by letting nature do the breeding and then choosing the tastiest, hardiest, or most productive offspring. This ancient technique was accelerated in the...