Foreign Affairs articles from May 2003

Foreign Affairs archives from May 2003

America Slams the Door (On Its Foot) - Washington's Destructive New Visa Policies.
May 1, 2003... On January 28, Ejaz Haider -- the editor of one of Pakistan's most influential newspapers and a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution -- was stopped outside the Washington think tank by two armed, plainclothes officers from the U.S....

Why the Security Council failed.
May 1, 2003... SHOWDOWN AT TURTLE BAY "The tents have been struck," declared South Africa's prime minister, Jan Christian Smuts, about the League of Nations' founding. "The great caravan of humanity is again on the march." A generation later, this mass...

How to Build a Democratic Iraq.
May 1, 2003... THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME Thus far, most of the endless talk about the war in Iraq has focused on several issues: the scale of the operation, Washington's motivation, and the rift in the Atlantic alliance. It is now safe to assume,...

A Trusteeship for Palestine?
May 1, 2003... ROAD MAP TO NOWHERE The second Palestinian intifada will soon enter its fourth year. Both Israelis and Palestinians have become exhausted by the worst violence in the history of their bloody conflict, and yet it continues. Palestinian...

Milosevic in the Hague.(Slobodan Milosevic)
May 1, 2003... JUSTICE AS A POLICY October 30, 2002, is just another day in the trial of Slobodan Milosevic. A stocky former Serb intelligence agent, Slobodan Lazarevic, is testifying against his erstwhile boss and former political idol. Lazarevic had...

Is Turkey ready for Europe?
May 1, 2003... TUSSLES IN BRUSSELS Last December, the EU's leaders formally agreed to expand their union in 2004 from 15 to 25 members -- a historic broadening of one of the world's most exclusive clubs. Europe's politicians also set a schedule under...

Putting Liberty First - The Case Against Democracy.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... The Future of Freedom. by Fareed Zakaria. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003, 256 pp. $24.95. The U.S. State Department has a Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor whose purpose is to "promote democracy as a means to achieve security,...

Free Trade Optimism - Lessons From the Battle in Seattle.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... A World Without Walls: Freedom, Development, Free Trade and Global Governance. by Mike Moore. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 302 pp. $28.00. Within two months of taking office as the new director-general of the World Trade...

Democracy Promotion: Explaining the Bush Administration's Position - The Core of U.S. Foreign Policy.
May 1, 2003... Thomas Carothers' article "Promoting Democracy and Fighting Terror" (January/February 2003) critiques the Bush administration's democracy promotion record and offers some broad recommendations on how best to integrate human rights causes into...

Recent Books.
May 1, 2003... Political and Legal G. John Ikenberry The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History. by John Robert McNeill and William Hardy McNeill. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003, 368 pp. $27.95. A brilliant synthesis of world history by...

Letters to the Editor.
May 1, 2003... Paul Kellogg on French anti-Americanism; Matthew Evangelista counters critic on Chechnya; Allen McDuffee, Adam M. Smith, and others WHY THE FRENCH FUSS To the Editor: Walter Russell Mead ("Why Do They Hate Us?" March/April...

Untangling India and Pakistan.
May 1, 2003... EVER ON THE BRINK As one of the world's longest-suffering victims of terrorism, India had high hopes for the U.S.-led campaign against global terrorists that emerged in the wake of the September 11 attacks. But well into the second year of...

The Forgotten Relationship.(the US and Latin America)
May 1, 2003... RETHINKING U.S.-LATIN AMERICAN TIES Free from the strategic and ideological rigidities of the Cold War, Latin America in the mid-1990s looked forward to a more realistic and constructive relationship with the United States. The first Summit...

The Rise of Ethics in Foreign Policy - Reaching a Values Consensus.
May 1, 2003... In the space of a few weeks recently, here's what happened on the international morality and values front: Madeleine Albright testified at a Bosnian war crimes tribunal, the State Department's chief policy planner argued that promoting...