Foreign Affairs articles from May 2006

Foreign Affairs archives from May 2006

Failing History?(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... To the Editor: Sarah Mendelson and Theodore Gerber lament young Russians' mixed views of Stalin as a sign of dangerous historical amnesia ("Failing the Stalin Test," January/February 2006). But just as it was a gross oversimplification...

Unlike a Good Neighbor.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... To the Editor: Peter Hakim frames the issues confronting Latin America in ways that seem too limiting ("Is Washington Losing Latin America?" January/February 2006). First of all, Hakim overstates China's influence in Latin America. Chinese...

Pro Bono?
May 1, 2006... To the Editor: Joseph Stiglitz's review of Benjamin Friedman's book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth ("The Ethical Economist," November/December 2005) is curious. Stiglitz, after all, is famous for having produced the 1998 World...

Through Our Friends' Eyes -- Defending and Advising the Hyperpower.("American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville")("Uberpower: The Imperial Temptation of America")(Book review)
May 1, 2006... American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville. By Bernard-Henri Levy. Translated by Charlotte Mandell. : Random House, 2006, 320 pp., $24.95 American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of...

A Bitter Prize.("The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements")(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements By Gershom Gorenberg : Times Books, 2006, 480 pp., $30.00 On June 13, 1967, a small group of Israelis traveled to an area south of Jerusalem. The land, on the west bank of the...

Political and Legal.("Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism ")(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism By Bruce Ackerman : Yale University Press, 2006, 240 pp., $26.00 Terrorist attacks on democracies have awful but predictable effects: they trigger public panic and...

Political and Legal - Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers By Kwame Anthony Appiah : Norton, 2006, 256 pp., $23.95 In this inspiring meditation on global ethics, the eminent political philosopher Appiah poses old questions made urgent by...

Political and Legal - Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny By Amartya Sen : Norton, 2006, 224 pp., $24.95 Why is the world racked by barbarity and violence? In this provocative little book, the Nobel laureate economist argues that the causes are as...

Political and Legal - Trust and Rule.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Trust and Rule By Charles Tilly : Cambridge University Press, 2005, 216 pp., $55.00 (paper, $19.99) Most scholars believe that transitions to democracy require the emergence of a broadly trusting public. But how trust works has remained...

Political and Legal - Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Nation-Building: Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq By Edited by Francis Fukuyama. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005, 272 pp., $55.00 (paper, $21.95) Nation building has been a prominent feature of U.S. foreign policy since the end of...

Political and Legal - The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics, 1789-1989.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics, 1789-1989 By Mark L. Haas : Cornell University Press, 2005, 250 pp., $39.95 Realist theory claims that nations are motivated by considerations of power. In this impressive study, Haas...

Economic, Social, and Environmental - Financial Statecraft: The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Financial Statecraft: The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy By Benn Steil and Robert E. Litan : Yale University Press, 2005, 224 pp., $38.00 Steil and Litan note an increasing tendency by the United States to try to...

Economic, Social, and Environmental - Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Feeding the World: An Economic History of World Agriculture, 1800-2000 By Giovanni Federico : Princeton University Press, 2005, 416 pp., $45.00 Economic development entails moving workers out of traditional agriculture and into more...

Economic, Social, and Environmental - How We Compete: What Companies around the World Are Doing to Make It in Today's Global Economy.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... How We Compete: What Companies Around the World Are Doing to Make It in Today's Global Economy By Suzanne Berger and the MIT Industrial Performance Center : Currency, 2005, 352 pp., $27.50 This book summarizes and generalizes from...

Economic, Social, and Environmental - Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-first Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-first Century By Philip Martin, Manolo Abella, and Christiane Kuptsch : Yale University Press, 2005, 240 pp., $35.00 Given declining birthrates and increased longevity in rich countries, international...

Economic, Social, and Environmental - When the Rivers Run Dry -- The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century.("Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building")("When the Rivers Run Dry -- The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century")(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... When the Rivers Run Dry -- The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century By Fred Pearce : Beacon Press, 2005, 336 pp., $26.95 Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building Ken Conca MIT...

Economic, Social, and Environmental - Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building By Ken Conca : MIT Press, 2005, 456 pp., $70.00 (paper, $28.00) When the Rivers Run Dry -- The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century Fred Pearce...

Economic, Social, and Environmental - Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy By Moises Naim : Doubleday, 2005, 352 pp., $26.00 Traveling in Russia, China, eastern Europe, and Latin America, Naim, the editor of Foreign Policy, realized...

Military, Scientific, and Technological - State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration By James Risen : Free Press, 2006, 256 pp., $26.00 Risen has written a short and at times disjointed book packed with startling stories, a number of which appear to be...

Military, Scientific, and Technological - The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider's Perspective.("NATO and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Regional Alliance, Global Threats")(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider's Perspective By Keith A. Hansen : Stanford University Press, 2006, 256 pp., $24.95 The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider's Perspective Keith A. Hansen ...

Military, Scientific, and Technological - NATO and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Regional Alliance, Global Threats.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... NATO and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Regional Alliance, Global Threats. By Eric Terzuolo : Routledge, 2006, 240 pp., $113.00 NATO and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Regional Alliance, Global Threats Eric Terzuolo Routledge,...

Military, Scientific, and Technological - The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times By Odd Arne Westad : Cambridge University Press, 2005, 488 pp., $35.00 The Cold War began and ended in Europe, but some of its most severe effects were felt in the...

Military, Scientific, and Technological - Presidential Commissions and National Security: The Politics of Damage Control.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Presidential Commissions and National Security: The Politics of Damage Control By Kenneth Kitts : Lynne Rienner, 2005, 194 pp., $49.95 Starting with the inquiry headed by Owen Roberts into why the United States was caught by surprise at...

Military, Scientific, and Technological - War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics over Technology.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics Over Technology By Keir A. Lieber : Cornell University Press, 2005, 256 pp., $39.95 The title of Lieber's book is somewhat misleading, for the book is really a challenge to the view, still...

The United States - America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked By Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes : Times Books, 2006, 288 pp., $25.00 Using a wealth of domestic and international polling data, Kohut and Stokes ask just how...

The United States - At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965- 68.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 By Taylor Branch : Simon & Schuster, 2006, 1,056 pp., $35.00 The third installment of America in the King Years, Branch's extraordinary history of the civil rights movement in the United...

The United States - Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Here's Where I Stand: A Memoir By Jesse Helms : Random House, 2005, 336 pp., $25.95 For five terms in the Senate, Jesse Helms was the dreaded "Senator No," whose unbending conservatism and prickly insistence on the prerogatives of the...

The United States - The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology By Ray Kurzweil : Viking, 2005, 416 pp., $29.95 American life today is being rapidly and continuously transformed by technological progress. Kurzweil is admirably placed to give...

The United States - The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The American Evangelical Story: A History of the Movement By Douglas A. Sweeney : Baker Academic, 2005, 208 pp., $17.99 Intended for students, this short and sympathetic -- although not uncritical -- history of American evangelical religion...

The United States - Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century By Julia E. Sweig : PublicAffairs, 2006, 272 pp., $25.00 Studies of anti-Americanism have proliferated, for perhaps obvious reasons, over the past several years....

Western Europe - The State of the European Union. Vol. 7, With US or Against US? European Trends in American Perspective.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The State of the European Union. Vol. 7, With US or Against US? European Trends in American Perspective By Edited by Nicholas Jabko and Craig Parsons : Oxford University Press, 2005, 468 pp., $130.00 (paper, $55.00) This is the seventh...

Western Europe - Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Camus at "Combat": Writing 1944-1947 By Albert Camus. Edited and annotated by Jacqueline Levi-Valensi. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer : Princeton University Press, 2005, 378 pp., $29.95 These beautifully translated articles by Camus were...

Western Europe - Mick: The Real Michael Collins.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Mick: The Real Michael Collins By Peter Hart : Viking Adult, 2006, 384 pp., $27.95 This enormous biography is interesting for two reasons. First, it provides a cool, unromantic look at the life of the young Irish revolutionary, and...

Western Europe - Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic.("Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism")(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic By Cindy Skach : Princeton University Press, 2005, 192 pp., $29.95 Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany...

Western Europe - Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism.("Borrowing Constitutional Designs: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic")(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism By Daniel Ziblatt : Princeton University Press, 2006, 288 pp., $39.50 Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of...

Western Europe - The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria By David Art : Cambridge University Press, 2005, 232 pp., $65.00 (paper, $23.99) Art does not focus on structural or institutional factors in order to explain the differences between the...

Western Hemisphere - The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir By Fernando Henrique Cardoso with Brian Winter : PublicAffairs, 2006, 291 pp., $26.95 In this most engaging and very personal history of twentieth-century Brazil, a genuine philosopher-king...

Western Hemisphere - International Election Monitoring, Sovereignty, and the Western Hemisphere: The Emergence of an International Norm.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... International Election Monitoring, Sovereignty, and the Western Hemisphere: The Emergence of an International Norm By Arturo Santa-Cruz : Routledge, 2005, 272 pp., $85.00 A rising star in international relations theory who teaches at the...

Western Hemisphere - Women and Politics in Chile.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Women and Politics in Chile By Susan Franceschet : Lynne Rienner, 2005, 203 pp., $49.95 A young Canadian feminist finds fault with all past Chilean governments -- right, center, and left -- for their neglect of women's rights and gender...

Western Hemisphere - AIDS in Latin America.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... AIDS in Latin America By Tim Frasca : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 272 pp., $29.95 With moving human narratives and revealing interviews of AIDS victims and fellow activists and health-care workers, Frasca traces the responses to the AIDS...

Western Hemisphere - Transnational Engagement, Remittances, and Their Relationship to Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Transnational Engagement, Remittances, and Their Relationship to Development in Latin America and the Caribbean By Manuel Orozco et al. : Institute for the Study of International Migration, 2005, 87 pp., Free In 2004, the Latino...

Western Hemisphere - Philanthropy and Social Change in Latin America.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Philanthropy and Social Change in Latin America By Edited by Cynthia Sanborn and Felipe Portocarrero : Harvard University Press, 2006, 480 pp., $24.99 Jointly prepared by Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and...

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics - Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union By Geoffrey Hosking : Belknap Press, 2006, 496 pp., $35.00 They were both rulers and victims, says Hosking. The Russians were the "state-bearers of the Soviet Union": its managers and its...

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics - Space Race: The Epic Battle between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Space Race: The Epic Battle Between America and the Soviet Union for Dominion of Space By Deborah Cadbury : HarperCollins, 2006, 384 pp., $24.95 From the opening account of Washington and Moscow's race to grab the models, machines,...

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics - Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy By Anna Politkovskaya : Metropolitan Books, 2005, 288 pp., $25.00 The savagery of Russia's actions in Chechnya is not news, nor is the highhandedness of its intelligence services, nor the cynical...

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics - Russian Oil Supply: Performance and Prospects.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Russian Oil Supply: Performance and Prospects By John D. Grace : Oxford University Press, 2005, 304 pp., $85.00 Russia, as Grace notes, is an "ally and opponent" of OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) and the same for...

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics - Europe and the Recognition of New States in Yugoslavia.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Europe and the Recognition of New States in Yugoslavia By Richard Caplan : Cambridge University Press, 2005, 240 pp., $75.00 Germany's precipitous recognition of Croatian independence in December 1991 is commonly assumed to have worsened...

Middle East - My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope By L. Paul Bremer III with Malcolm McConnell : Simon & Schuster, 2006, 432 pp., $27.00 Bremer arrived in Iraq only days after President George W. Bush declared "mission accomplished"...

Middle East - The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War.("Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy")(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War By James L. Gelvin : Cambridge University Press, 2005, 312 pp., $65.00 (paper, $22.99) The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War James L. Gelvin Cambridge...

Middle East - Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.("The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War")(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy By Schlomo Ben- Ami : Oxford University Press, 2006, 368 pp., $30.00 Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy Schlomo Ben-Ami Oxford University Press, 2006,...

Middle East - Crescent of Crisis: U.S.-European Strategy for the Greater Middle East.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Crescent of Crisis: U.S.-European Strategy for the Greater Middle East By Edited by Ivo H. Daalder, Nicole Gnesotto, and Philip H. Gordon : Brookings Institution Press, 2006, 263 pp., $44.95 (paper, $18.95) Pairs of matching chapters by an...

Middle East - The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide.("The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians")(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide By Guenter Lewy : University of Utah Press, 2005, 356 pp., $24.95 The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide Guenter Lewy University of Utah Press,...

Middle East - The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians.("The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide")(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians By Donald Bloxham : Oxford University Press, 2005, 344 pp., $35.00 The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction...

Asia and Pacific - China Candid: The People on the People's Republic.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... China Candid: The People on the People's Republic By Sang Ye. Translated and edited by Geremie R. Barme with Miriam Lang : University of California Press, 2006, 363 pp., $50.00 (paper, $19.95) This is an extraordinary collection of the...

Asia and Pacific - The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture, and Identity.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture, and Identity By Amartya Sen : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005, 432 pp., $26.00 (paper, $15.00) This series of essays on Indian culture and identity by a Nobel laureate in...

Asia and Pacific - A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire By Sugata Bose : Harvard University Press, 2006, 352 pp., $27.95 With great ingenuity, the Harvard historian Bose uses the story of the Indian Ocean from the mid-eighteenth...

Asia and Pacific - Power Shift: China and Asia's New Dynamics.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Power Shift: China and Asia's New Dynamics By Edited by David Shambaugh : University of California Press, 2006, 402 pp., $60.00 (paper, $24.95) This is an exceptionally well-organized and clearly focused product of a scholarly conference...

Asia and Pacific - The United Nations in Japan's Foreign and Security Policymaking, 1945-1992: National Security, Party Politics, and International Status.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The United Nations in Japan's Foreign and Security Policymaking, 1945- 1992: National Security, Party Politics, and International Status By Liang Pan : Harvard University Press, 2006, 300 pp., $45.00 The title of this work might suggest...

Asia and Pacific - The Great Wall: China against the World, 1000 BC-AD 2000.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Great Wall: China Against the World, 1000 BC-AD 2000 By Julia Lovell : Grove Press, 2006, 432 pp., $25.00 One might have thought that there was little need for another book on the Great Wall, especially after Arthur Waldron's masterly...

Africa - Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa By Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass : Yale University Press, 2005, 464 pp., $55.00 South Africa has long had one of the world's most unequal societies. Reducing these inequalities was one of...

Africa - Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire By Marie Beatrice Umutesi. Translated by Julia Emerson : University of Wisconsin Press, 2004, 284 pp., $65.00 (paper, $19.95) Much of the recent literature on Rwanda's ethnic...

Africa - Legacies of Power: Leadership Change and Former Presidents in African Politics.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Legacies of Power: Leadership Change and Former Presidents in African Politics By Edited by Roger Southall and Henning Melber : Human Sciences Research Council, 2005, 352 pp., $24.95 One of the consequences of democratization in Africa is...

Africa - The Press and Political Culture in Ghana.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... The Press and Political Culture in Ghana By Jennifer Hasty : Indiana University Press, 2005, 216 pp., $55.00 (paper, $22.95) The importance of a free press to democratization in Africa is often asserted, but remarkably little is known about...

Africa - South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2006... South Africa's Weapons of Mass Destruction By Helen E. Purkitt and Stephen F. Burgess : Indiana University Press, 2005, 320 pp., $65.00 (paper, $24.95) South Africa is the only country to have developed nuclear weapons and then voluntarily...

Saddam's Delusions: The View From the Inside.(Saddam Hussein's political reign)
May 1, 2006... EDITOR'S NOTE: The fall of Baghdad in April 2003 opened one of the most secretive and brutal governments in history to outside scrutiny. For the first time since the end of World War II, American analysts did not have to guess what had happened...

Latin America's Left Turn.
May 1, 2006... A TALE OF TWO LEFTS Just over a decade ago, Latin America seemed poised to begin a virtuous cycle of economic progress and improved democratic governance, overseen by a growing number of centrist technocratic governments. In Mexico,...

In Search of Hugo Chavez.(Hugo Chavez Frias )
May 1, 2006... BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER Almost as soon as a collapsing bridge forced the government of President Hugo Chavez Frias to shut down the only highway linking Venezuela's main airport and capital city in January, the recriminations began....

The Special Relationship, Then and Now.
May 1, 2006... FROM THE FALKLANDS TO IRAQ On September 11, 2001, just hours after the collapse of the World Trade Center, British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged his solidarity with the United States. "Here in the United Kingdom," he said, "we stand...

The Long War Against Corruption.
May 1, 2006... A WAYS TO GO Since the mid-1990s, the issue of corruption has gained a prominent place on the global agenda. International organizations, including the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the UN, have adopted...

The Return of Saving.
May 1, 2006... THE U.S. SAVINGS RATE AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY The savings rate of American households has been declining for more than a decade and recently turned negative. This decrease has dramatically reduced total national savings despite a rise in...

The New Middle Ages.
May 1, 2006... GANGSTERS' PARADISE You enter the ghetto through a warren of decrepit alleys crowded with locals seeking refuge from the hot night air of their cramped homes. Suspicious stares alert you that you have entered Kingston's gangland. But if...

What to Do About Climate Change.
May 1, 2006... THE HEAT IS ON In the years ahead, climate change will have a significant impact on every aspect of the daily lives of all human beings -- possibly greater even than war. Shifting precipitation patterns and ocean currents could change...

The Tipping Points.(illegal immigration from islamic countries)
May 1, 2006... FROM BAD TO WORSE Terrorism and the war in Iraq are not the only sources of the American public's anxiety about U.S. foreign policy. Americans are also concerned about their country's dependence on foreign energy supplies, U.S. jobs moving...

The Globally Integrated Enterprise.
May 1, 2006... BEYOND MULTINATIONAL The multinational corporation (MNC), often seen as a primary agent of globalization, is taking on a new form, one that is promising for both business and society. From a business perspective, this new kind of...

Sustainable Objections?(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2006... To the Editor: David Victor is half right in his assertions that there are many difficulties with implementing sustainable development and that the international community has failed to give adequate attention to poverty reduction...