Foreign Affairs articles from May 2008

Foreign Affairs archives from May 2008

Blood barrels: why oil wealth fuels conflict.(Comments)
May 1, 2008... The world is far more peaceful today than it was 15 years ago. There were 17 major civil wars--with "major" meaning the kind that kill more than a thousand people a year--going on at the end of the Cold War; by 2006, there were just five....

After Guantanamo: the case against preventive detention.(Comments)(Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba)
May 1, 2008... These days, it seems, everyone wants to close Guantanamo. In January 2002, the Bush administration created a detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba to imprison what former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld called "the worst...

The future of American power: how America can survive the rise of the rest.(Essay)
May 1, 2008... ON JUNE 22, 1897, about 400 million people around the world--one-fourth of humanity--got the day off. It was the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria's ascension to the British throne. The Diamond Jubilee stretched over five days on land and sea,...

The age of nonpolarity: what will follow U.S. dominance.(Essay)
May 1, 2008... THE PRINCIPAL characteristic of twenty-first-century international relations is turning out to be nonpolarity: a world dominated not by one or two or even several states but rather by dozens of actors possessing and exercising various kinds of...

The price of the surge: how U.S. strategy is hastening Iraq's demise.(Essay)
May 1, 2008... IN JANUARY 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new approach to the war in Iraq. At the time, sectarian and insurgent violence appeared to be spiraling out of control, and Democrats in Washington--newly in control of both houses of...

Beyond Darfur: Sudan's slide toward civil war.(Essay)
May 1, 2008... FEW INTERNATIONAL issues have caught the attention of the American people as much as have the atrocities in Darfur. The Sudanese government and the Janjaweed militias, an Arab supremacist movement, have been carrying out a horrifying campaign...

The trouble with Congo: how local disputes fuel regional conflict.(Essay)
May 1, 2008... WHEN, IN 2006, Joseph Kabila became the first democratically elected president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, many Congolese and international observers hoped that stability had finally come to the country. During the previous decade,...

The case against the West: America and Europe in the Asian century.(Essay)
May 1, 2008... THERE IS a fundamental flaw in the West's strategic thinking. In all its analyses of global challenges, the West assumes that it is the source of the solutions to the world's key problems. In fact, however, the West is also a major source of...

The distant horizon: what can "Big History" tell us about America's future?('A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World,' 'The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation,' and 'Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fail')(Book review)
May 1, 2008... A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World. BY WILLIAM J. BERNSTEIN. Atlantic Monthly, 2008, 384 pp. $30.00. The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation. BY STROBE TALBOTT. Simon...

The myth of grass-roots terrorism: why Osama bin Laden still matters.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-first Century. BY MARC SAGEMAN. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, 208 pp. $24.95. Since Rudy Giuliani's early exit from the Republican presidential primary, the issue of terrorism has...

The Post-American World.(Political and Legal)(The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Post-American World. BY FAREED ZAKARIA. Norton, 2008, 288 pp. $25-95. The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order. BY PARAG KHANNA. Random House, 2008, 496 pp. $29.00. It is by now commonplace to argue that the...

The Balance of Power in International Relations: Metaphors, Myths, and Models.(Political and Legal)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Balance of Power in International Relations: Metaphors, Myths, and Models. BY RICHARD LITTLE. Cambridge University Press, 2007, 328 pp. $32-99. The balance of power is the oldest and most invoked idea in the study of international...

Nations, States, and Violence.(Political and Legal)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Nations, States, and Violence. BY DAVID D. LAITIN. Oxford University Press, 2007, 168 pp. $27.95. In this provocative little book, a Stanford political scientist presents an intriguing account of nationalism and its implications for...

Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism.(Political and Legal)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Embattled Garrisons: Comparative Base Politics and American Globalism. BY KENT E. CALDER. Princeton University Press, 2007, 340 pp. $60.00 (paper, $24.95). The United States' military dominance is built on a worldwide system of bases. This...

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet.(Economic, Social, and Environmental)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet. BY JEFFREY D. SACHS. Penguin Press, 2008, 400 pp. $27.95. The central premise of this wide-ranging book is that the current trajectory of human activity is not sustainable. Continued growth...

Global Warming: Looking beyond Kyoto.(Economic, Social, and Environmental)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Global Warming: Looking Beyond Kyoto. EDITED BY ERNESTO ZEDILLO. Brookings Institution Press, 2008, 237 pp. $26.95. Climate change is gradually moving up the policy agenda in many countries. And it is likely to continue to do so in...

U.S. Taxation of Foreign Income.(Economic, Social, and Environmental)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... US. Taxation of Foreign Income. BY GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER AND ARIEL ASSA. Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2007, 319 pp. $26.95. Taxation of income is devilishly complicated in a globalizing world economy. Two or more...

World Trade Politics: Power, Principles, and Leadership.(Economic, Social, and Environmental)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... World Trade Politics: Power, Principles, and Leadership. BY DAVID A. DEESE. Routledge, 2007, 240 pp. $150.00 (paper, $42.95). The core of this book is a brief but fine history of the post-1945 international trade regime. It is useful...

The Accelerating Decline in America's High-Skilled Workforce: Implications for Immigration Policy.(Economic, Social, and Environmental)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Accelerating Decline in America's High-Skilled Workforce: Implications for Immigration Policy. BY JACOB FUNK KIRKEGAARD. Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2007, 132 pp. $18.95. Remarkably and puzzlingly, young American...

The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger.(Military, Scientific and Technological)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger. BY JONATHAN SCHELL. Metropolitan Books, 2007, 272 pp. $24.00. Now into their seventh decade, nuclear weapons should be thinking about their retirement, but, irritatingly, they seem to be...

The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture.(Military, Scientific and Technological)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture. BY RONALD SMELSER AND EDWARD J. DAVIES II. Cambridge University Press, 2007, 342 pp. $75.00. The underlying thesis of this book is that although the American...

Chasing Ghosts: Unconventional Warfare in American History.(Military, Scientific, and Technological)('The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War' and 'The New American Way of War: Military Culture and the Political Utility of Force')(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Chasing Ghosts: Unconventional Warfare in American History. By JOHN J. TIERNEY, JR. Potomac Books, 2006, 308 pp. $26.95 (paper, $17.95). The Echo of Battle: The Army's Way of War. BY BRIAN McALLISTER LINN. Harvard University Press, 2007,...

Marching toward Hell: America and Islam after Iraq.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq. BY MICHAEL SCHEUER. Free Press, 2008, 384 pp. $27.00. Readers searching for examples of Jacksonian American foreign policy will find much to study in Scheuer's latest bestseller. For...

Ike: An American Hero.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Ike: An American Hero. BY MICHAEL KORDA. Harper, 2008, 800 pp. $34-95. Dwight Eisenhower was one of the greatest American generals and remains perhaps the most underrated American president. In an age of self-dramatizing political...

Washington Irving.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Washington Irving. BY BRIAN JAY JONES. Arcade, 2008, 456 pp. $30.00. Washington Irving was the United States' first "man of letters," the first American to achieve international fame and financial security from his pen. He was also an...

FDR.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... FDR. BY JEAN EDWARD SMITH. Random House, 2008, 880 pp. $20.00. There is no shortage of biographies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but Smith is one of the titans of American biography and makes this mostly familiar story vivid and fresh....

Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s: "The Shores of Light," "Axel's Castle," Uncollected Reviews.(The United States)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and 30s: "The Shores of Light," "Axel's Castle," Uncollected Reviews. BY EDMUND WILSON. EDITED BY LEWIS DABNEY. Library of America, 2007, 958 pp. $40.00. The invaluable Library of America continues...

Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe.(Western Europe)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe. BY JAMES SHEEHAN. Houghton Mifflin, 2008, 284 pp. $26.00. This gem of a book is the story of the battle between pacifism and militarism in Europe over the past...

NATO's Gamble: Combining Diplomacy and Airpower in the Kosovo Crisis, 1998-1999.(Western Europe)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... NATO's Gamble: Combining Diplomacy and Airpower in the Kosovo Crisis, 1998-1999. BY DAG HENRIKSEN. Naval Institute Press, 2007, 304 pp. $48.00 (paper, $24.00). The path to Kosovo's independence, proclaimed in February 2008, was paved by...

Constitutional Patriotism.(Western Europe)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Constitutional Patriotism. BY JAN -WERNER MULLER. Princeton University Press, 2007, 186 pp. $19.95. In the mid-1980s, the German political philosopher Jurgen Habermas popularized the concept of "constitutional patriotism," the idea, as...

Architects of Delusion: Europe, America, and the Iraq War.(Western Europe)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Architects of Delusion: Europe, America, and the Iraq War. BY SIMON SERFATY. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007, 184 pp. $45.00. Serfaty, an expert on Europe and U.S. foreign policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies...

European Islam." Challenges for Society and Public Policy.(Western Europe)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... European Islam." Challenges for Society and Public Policy. EDITED BY SAMIR AMGHAR, AMEL BOUBEKEUR, AND MICHAEL EMERSON. Centre for European Policy Studies, 2007, 227 pp. $30.00. Written by an array of specialists from a number of different...

Fidel Castro: My Life; A Spoken Autobiography.(Western Hemisphere)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Fidel Castro: My Life; A Spoken Autobiography. BY IGNACIO RAMONET AND FIDEL CASTRO. Scribner, 2008, 736 pp. $40.00. Prior to his prolonged illness, Castro sat for over a hundred hours with the editor of Le Monde Diplomatique to compose this...

Hostile Intent: U.S. Covert Operations in Chile, 1964-1974.(Western Hemisphere)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Hostile Intent: U.S. Covert Operations in Chile, 1964-1974. BY KRISTIAN GUSTAFSON. Potomac Books, 2007, 288 pp. $29.95. This provocative contribution by a Canadian army officer turned scholar makes good use of newly declassified U.S....

Can Latin America Compete? Confronting the Challenges of Globalization.(Western Hemisphere)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Can Latin America Compete? Confronting the Challenges of Globalization. EDITED BY JERRY HAAR AND JOHN PRICE. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 320 pp. $84-95. Here is an excellent primer for readers in search of an accessible, comprehensive, and...

Fair Growth: Economic Policies for Latin America's Poor and Middle-Income Majority.(Western Hemisphere)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Fair Growth: Economic Policies for Latin America's Poor and Middle-Income Majority. BY NANCY BIRDSALL, AUGUSTO DE LA TORRE, AND RACHEL MENEZES. Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue, 2008, 216 pp. $24.95. Birdsall,...

Economic Growth and Integration in Central America.(Western Hemisphere)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Economic Growth and Integration in Central America. EDITED BY DOMINIQUE DESRUELLE AND ALFRED SCHIPKE. International Monetary Fund, 2007, 110 pp. $30.00. How is it possible that a fertile region less than three hours by airplane from...

Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough-and-Tumble Adventures of a Scotch-Drinking, Skirt-Chasing, Dictator-Busting, and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambassador Stuck on the Frontline of the War against Terror.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Dirty Diplomacy: The Rough-and-Tumble Adventures of a Scotch-Drinking, Skirt-Chasing, Dictator-Busting, and Thoroughly Unrepentant Ambassador Stuck on the Frontline of the War Against Terror. BY CRAIG MURRAY. Scribner, 2007, 384 pp. $26.00. ...

The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus. BY CHARLES KING. Oxford University Press, 2008, 320 pp. $29.95. The title of this book comes from Aleksandr Pushkin's poetic evocation of the Caucasus as the outsider's romantic dream of...

On the Ideological Front: The Russian Intelligentsia and the Making of the Soviet Public Sphere.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... On the Ideological Front: The Russian Intelligentsia and the Making of the Soviet Public Sphere. BY STUART FINKEL. Yale University Press, 2007, 346 pp. $55.00. One often thinks of the Bolsheviks' assault on freedom in terms of newspapers...

The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The New Cold War: Putin's Russia and the Threat to the West. BY EDWARD LUCAS. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, 272 pp. $26.95. Lucas is no simpleton, and he does not for a moment mean to suggest that the menace of today's Russia equals the...

Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia. BY YEGOR GAIDAR. TRANSLATED BY ANTONINA W. BOUIS. Brookings Institution Press, 2007, 332 pp. $29.95. Gaidar begins with an erudite, historically wide-ranging account of the collapse of many...

Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania.(Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania. BY LAVINIA STAN AND LUCIAN TURCESCU. Oxford University Press, 2007, 288 pp. $55.00. Fashion in the social sciences has lately edged away from a preoccupation with ethnicity and ethnic...

The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East.(Middle East)(The New Middle East)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East. B Y OLIVIER ROY. Columbia University Press, 2008, 160 pp. $24.95. The New Middle East. BY MARINA S. OTTAWAY, NATHAN BROWN, AMR HAMZAWY, KARIM SADJADPOUR, AND PAUL SALEM. Carnegie Endowment for...

Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East.(Middle East)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East. BY USSAMA MAKDISI. Cornell University Press, 2007, 280 pp. $35.00. The efforts of American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East have often been...

The New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World.(Middle East)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World. BY GRAHAM E. FULLER. U.S. Institute of Peace, 2007, 160 pp. $14.95. After several opening chapters setting out Turkey's Ottoman, Kemalist, and Cold War legacies,...

Arguing the Just War in Islam.(Middle East)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Arguing the Just War in Islam. BY JOHN KELSAY. Harvard University Press, 2007, 272 pp- $24-95. This book moves beyond those simplifications that would either depict the militancy and terrorism of many Islamist groups as emblematic or...

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East.(Middle East)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East. BY ROBIN WRIGHT. Penguin Press, 2008, 480 pp. $26.95. With insights and expertise gained over 35 years of reporting on the Middle East, Wright explores whether major changes in the...

India: The Emerging Giant.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... India: The Emerging Giant. BY ARVIND PANAGARIYA. Oxford University Press, 2008, 544 pp. $39.95. This is a massive research study that will command the respect of scholars who like to pore over tables, graphs, and charts in search of...

The State of India's Democracy.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... The State of India's Democracy. EDITED BY SUMIT GANGULY, LARRY DIAMOND, AND MARC F. PLATTNER. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, 231 pp. $18.95. This symposium volume brings together more than a dozen American and Indian scholars to...

Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures--and Yours.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures--and Yours. BY TARUN KHANNA. Harvard Business School Press, 2008, 368 pp. $29.95. The title of this book might suggest that it is not a serious scholarly study,...

Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics. BY WILLIAM H. OVERHOLT. Cambridge University Press, 2007, 366 pp. $24.99. Overholt, of the RAND Corporation, has built his analysis of the relations between the U.S. government and Asian...

Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion.(Asia and Pacific)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion. By MARIA MISRA. Yale University Press, 2008, 592 pp. $35.00. As India enters its 60th year of independence, it is appropriate for historians to look back to give readers a sense of...

Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa.(Africa)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa. BY ROBERT PAARLBERG. Harvard University Press, 2008, 256 pp. $24.95. The persistent failure of African nations to modernize their agricultural sectors remains one of the...

When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa.(Africa)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa. BY ROBERT H. BATES. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 216 pp. $19.99. What accounts for the economic and political collapse of so many African states since independence? In this...

Negotiating the Net in Africa: The Politics of Internet Diffusion.(Africa)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Negotiating the Net in Africa: The Politics of Internet Diffusion. EDITED BY ERNEST J. WILSON III AND KELVIN R. WONG. Lynne Rienner, 2006, 238 pp. $49.95. The essays in this book focus on the early years of the Internet in Africa. The...

Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone: The Story of UNAMSIL.(Africa)(Making Liberia Safe: Transformation of the National Security Sector)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Peacekeeping in Sierra Leone: The Story of UNAMSIL. BY FUNMI OLONISAKIN. Lynne Rienner, 2007, 205 pp. $45.00 (paper, $18.95). Making Liberia Safe: Transformation of the National Security Sector. BY DAVID C. GOMPERT, OLGA OLIKER, BROOKE K....

Putin's Russia.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... To the Editor: Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss ("The Myth of the Authoritarian Model," January/February 2008) make several erroneous judgments regarding the current Russian scene. The Russian economy has grown in the last seven...

CIA chronicles.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... To the Editor: Paul Pillar ("Intelligent Design?" March/April 2008) spent most of the 1990s doing counterterrorism analysis at the CIA and rose to be the deputy director of its Counterterrorism Center. My book Spying Blind: The CIA, the...

Chinese ways.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... To the Editor: In "The Rise of China and the Future of the West" (January/February 2008), G. John Ikenberry offers a compelling series of arguments for why China will not attempt to overturn the liberal order. But he is wrong to assume...

Market blues.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... To the Editor: Robert Kimmitt ("Public Footprints in Private Markets," January/February 2008) provides an overview of sovereign wealth funds (SWFS) in the global economy that is helpful but incomplete. His proposed principles for a policy...

Congress at war.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... To the Editor: William Howell and Jon Pevehouse ("When Congress Stops Wars," September/October 2007) suggest that Congress has been far more influential in shaping U.S. military action abroad than previously thought. We disagree. Such a...

The road to the Arctic.(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2008... To the Editor: Scott Borgerson's article "Arctic Meltdown" (March/April 2008) is an addition to the recent wave of Arctic journalism rife with Wild West imagery of chaos and lawlessness--a reporting trend spurred by Russia's August 2007...

Foreign affairs bestsellers: the top-selling hardcover books on American foreign policy and international affairs.(Brief article)(List)
May 1, 2008... 1. The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation. PHILIP SHENON. Twelve, $27.00. 2. Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq. MICHAEL SCHEUER. Free Press, $27.00. 3. Memo to the President Elect: How We Can...

The new Yemen.(Yemen: A Bright Future Ahead)
May 1, 2008... Prior to 1962, Yemen was isolated from the rest of the world. Moreover, it was divided against itself. However, since two pivotal revolutions in '62-63 and, more recently, the unification of the North and South on May 22, 1990, Yemen has been...

New reforms shape Yemen's future.(Yemen: A Bright Future Ahead)
May 1, 2008... Yemen's economy is heading for a 5.4 percent growth this year, up from 2007's 3.3 percent real GDP level. The upward trend is largely the fruit of far-reaching reforms as outlined in the 2006 National Reform Agenda. It focuses on four key...

Banking on consolidation.(Yemen: A Bright Future Ahead)(commercial banking industry)
May 1, 2008... One of the primary focuses of Yemen's reform program concerns bolstering the non-oil sectors. Of these, the most promising is likely to be that of commercial banking. Already at the end of August 2007, the foreign assets of Islamic and...

Connectivity key to a network of progress.(Yemen: A Bright Future Ahead)(telecommunications industry)
May 1, 2008... One of the earliest countries in the Gulf region with a cellular market was Yemen, which recently welcomed its fourth operator. "The telecom sector is really promising, as the market can sustain all these competitors," says Minister of...

There will be growth.(Yemen: A Bright Future Ahead)(petroleum industry)
May 1, 2008... Yemen perches on the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, at the crossroads of vital oil transport routes from the Arabian Gulf to Europe, Asia, and Africa. But unlike its influential oil-producing neighbors elsewhere on the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen's...

Yemen confides in entrepreneurship.(Yemen: A Bright Future Ahead)(Hayel Saeed Anam Group and Shihab Insurance and Trading Agencies)
May 1, 2008... During Yemen's pursuit of economic growth P came the realization that the government needed to diversify away from oil-related businesses and, more importantly, increase the private sector's activity. To this end, the General Investment...

Applying ideological tactics in fighting terrorism.(Yemen: A Bright Future Ahead)
May 1, 2008... Since the events of September 11, 2001, nations across the globe have been pulling together to find the most effective way of stopping the advances of terrorism and Islamic extremism in their tracks. Yemen, a peaceful, friendly Islamic...

The making of a competitive Kingdom: top 10 by 2010 Saudi Arabia is on track to be one of world's most competitive economies by the end of the decade.(THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA: Strategic Powerhouse, Global Strength: Part III)
May 1, 2008... 2007 was a very good year for Saudi Arabia. The unprecedented growth, development, and contagious optimism in the country continued unabated. With oil prices reaching up to $110 a barrel, Saudi smiles are no surprise. The Kingdom's economy was...

Gaining on competitiveness.(Saudi Arabia)(Global Competitiveness Forum)
May 1, 2008... Becoming competitive is a big concept in theory, but even more so in practice. How does a nation "produce goods and services which meet the test of international markets, while simultaneously maintaining and expanding the real incomes of its...

Q&A with Amr Al-Dabbagh, governor of SAGIA.(Saudi Arabia)(Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority)(Interview)
May 1, 2008... As governor of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA), Amr Al-Dabbagh is extending his experience as a businessman to help the Kingdom's public and private sectors become a competitive global force. The architect of Saudi...

Mind wealth, the new oil.(Saudi Arabia)(education policy)
May 1, 2008... Of all the magnanimous projects, reforms, land improvements currently taking place in Saudi Arabia, at the end of his reign and beyond King Abdullah will most likely be remembered for the imprint he will have left on the country's education....

The thriving pulse of Saudi's health sector.(Saudi Arabia)
May 1, 2008... The health sector in Saudi Arabia is considered by SAGIA to be one of the six pillars of the economy, and many even believe it is the most important in terms of spurring the economy's competitiveness. Regionally, it is one of the largest in...

Making the great leap forward.(Saudi Arabia)(Saudi Arabian Airlines)
May 1, 2008... Over half a century after Franklin D. Roosevelt gifted a DC-3 Dakota to then King Abdul Aziz, allowing the Kingdom a leap into modernity, national carrier Saudi Arabian Airlines' fleet has grown to 139, making it the region's leading aviation...

The Saudi finance sector: confident, competitive, and compliant.(Saudi Arabia)
May 1, 2008... The Saudi financial market as we know it today can still be considered as being in its infancy. Until the 1980s, capital markets did not exist in Saudi Arabia. It was really the creation of the Capital Market Authority (CMA) that got the ball...

Industrial engagement: Alshoula's spectrum of competitiveness.(Saudi Arabia)(Alshoula Holding Group)(Company overview)
May 1, 2008... When it comes to competitive legacy, one family enterprise stands out from the Saudi crowd: the Alshoula Holding Group. The company began in 1970 with interests in real estate and construction and soon gathered momentum as the country began...

Saudi post: connecting all the dots.(Saudi Arabia)
May 1, 2008... From the postal command center in the heart of the Saudi Post's headquarters in downtown Riyadh, all eyes are focused on the massive projection screen and illuminated trajectories showing each Saudi Post truck as it goes about its day-to-day...

Powering the kingdom of energy.(Saudi Arabia)
May 1, 2008... That Saudi Arabia produces much of the world's energy will surprise no one. That Saudi Arabia is actively seeking the world's energy expertise is quite another story. Having pegged the energy sector as one of "three priority sectors of...

Serbia's Eurovision.(European Union)
May 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Serbia is in many ways an emerging Southeast European transition country with very attractive figures: an average 5.9 percent growth over the last 6 years, foreign direct investments above $1 billion five years...

Serbia's business resilience.
May 1, 2008... A major challenge that Serbia faces is upgrading the quality of businesses to EU standards. A wave of privatizations and liberalization of the Serbian economy has prepared it for competition, as well as resulting in a budget surplus used to pay...

Financial confidence from within.(Citadel Securities)
May 1, 2008... Many foreign investors understand foreign Serbias massive potential for servicing the Southeast European region, but some have been weary of the possible risks involved in a nation still actively building its future. Analysts close to the...