Foreign Affairs articles from November 1993

Foreign Affairs archives from November 1993

What a bear needs, besides Boris. (Russian President Boris Yeltsin) (Editorial)
November 1, 1993... BUYING TIME FOR DEMOCRACY The most important challenge facing President Boris Yeltsin is swift completion of a constitutional architecture for democracy in Russia. Violent victory over the obstructionist parliament made possible a historic...

Myths versus facts: the whole truth about the half-truths. (The NAFTA Debate)
November 1, 1993... WILLIAM A. ORME, JR., has covered Latin America as a journalist for the past 15 years and is currently Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. This article is adapted from his book, Continental Shift: Free Trade and the New...

The uncomfortable truth about NAFTA: it's foreign policy, stupid. (The NAFTA Debate)
November 1, 1993... PAUL KRUGAN is Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The debate over the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement has taken on an astonishing salience in American politics. Not since the Smoot-Hawley...

Creating a Pacific community: a time to bolster economic institutions.
November 1, 1993... FRANK B. GIBNEY is Vice Chairman of the Encyclopaedia Britannica Board of Editors and author of the recently published book, The Pacific Century. He is also President of the Pacific Basin Institute and Vice President of the Pacific Economic...

WAndering in the void: charting the U.N.'s new strategic role.
November 1, 1993... JOHN GERARD RUGGIE iS Dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. The United Nations has entered a domain of military activity--a vaguely defined no-man's-land lying somewhere between traditional peacekeeping...

GATTing the greens: not just greening the GATT. (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)
November 1, 1993... DANIEL C. ESTY is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for International Economics and an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. As a Deputy Assistant Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, he helped...

The future of the Islamic movement. (The Israeli-PLO Accord)
November 1, 1993... RICHARD W. BULLIET, Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, is the author of Islam: The View from the Edge. THE ARAB-ISRAELI conflict did not make the Islamic movement, and peace between Arabs...

Is Jordan doomed? (The Israeli-PLO Accord)
November 1, 1993... LAWRENCE TAL is a John M. Olin Fellow at Oxford University. A KING WHO MUST DECIDE LIKE SOLOMON DURING THE 40 years King Hussein has ruled the tiny Hashemite kingdom of Jordan, many observers have predicted his downfall. Yet he has...

The rise of China.
November 1, 1993... NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF was Beijing Bureau Chief for The New York Times from 1988 to 1993 and is currently writing a book about China with his wife, Sheryl WuDunn. THE RISE OF CHINA, if it continues, may be the most important trend in the...

South Africa's future foreign policy.
November 1, 1993... NELS0N MANDELA is President of the African National Congress. NEW PILLARS FOR A NEW WORLD As THE 1980s drew to a close I could not see much of the world from my prison cell, but I knew it was changing. There was little doubt in my mind...

Why South Africa gave up the bomb.
November 1, 1993... J.W. DE VILLER is Chairman of the Atomic Energy Corporation of South Africa; ROGER JARDINE is National Coordinator of Science and Technology Policy for the African National Congress; MITCHELL REISS is Guest Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson...

The challenges to Turkey.
November 1, 1993... ERIC ROULEAU is a former French Ambassador to Turkey. THE CONTRADICTIONS OF ATATURK'S LEGACY ISTANBUL IS AN APT metaphor for Turkey: at once multifaceted, diverse, and unitary; Byzantine, Ottoman, Asiatic, and European; modern and...

Is Pinochet the model? (Chilean General Augusto Pinochet)
November 1, 1993... ANGELO CODEVILLA is a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution. CHILE'S RECIPE WILL NOT WORK CHILEANS ARE BEMUSED by the attention paid the robust economy bequeathed them by General Augusto Pinochet. Reformers as far afield as...

The Wrath of Nations: Civilization and the Fury of Nationalism.
November 1, 1993... CONOR CRUISE O'BRIEN is a senior fellow at the National Humanities Center at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. He is the author of God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism. His most recent book is The Great Melody: A Thematic...

The Endangered American Dream: How to Stop the United States from Becoming a Third World Country and How to Win the Geo-Economic Struggle for Economic Supremacy.
November 1, 1993... FELIX G. ROHATYN is a senior partner of the investment-banking firm of Lazard Freres & Co. As chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, he advised the city of New York on financing, budgetary and investment strategies over the last 18...

Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education, vol. 2.
November 1, 1993... Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education. Vol. II. EDITED BY MARTIN E. MARTY AND R. SCOTT APPLEBY. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, 592 pp- $45.00.

Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance, vol. 3.
November 1, 1993... Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance. Vol. III. EDITED BY MARTIN E. MARTY AND R. SCOTT APPLEBY. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, 665 pp. $45.00.

The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State.
November 1, 1993... The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State. BY MARK JUERGENSMEYER. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, 292 pp. $25.00. With this issue, Francis Fukuyama, a resident consultant at the RAND Corporation,...

Encounters with the Contemporary Radical Right.
November 1, 1993... Encounters with the Contemporary Radical Right. EDITED BY PETER H. MERKL AND LEONARD WEINBERG. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993, 277 pp. $65-00 (paper, $19.95). Parallel to the fundamentalism volumes noted above, this collection discusses the...

The Real World Order: Zones of Peace/Zones of Turmoil.
November 1, 1993... The Real World Order: Zones of Peace/Zones of Turmoil. BY MAX SINGER AND AARON WILDAVSKY. Chatham (U.K.): Chatham House Publishers, 1993, 205 pp. $25.00 (paper, $16.95). This book serves as a refreshing counterpoint to the almost universal...

Grasping the Democratic Peace: Principles for a Post-Cold War World.
November 1, 1993... Grasping the Democratic Peace.' Principles for a Post-Cold War World. BY BRUCE. RUSSETT. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993, 173 pp. $19.95. Veteran Yale international-relations theorist Bruce Russett and his collaborators provide...

Revolution and World Order: The Revolutionary State in International Society.
November 1, 1993... Revolution and World Order The Revolutionary State in International Society. BY JAMES DAVID ARMSTRONG. Oxford (U.K.): Clarendon Press, 1993, 328 pp. $75.00. The author analyzes the international impact of several different revolutionary...

Might and Right After the Cold War: Can Foreign Policy Be Moral?
November 1, 1993... Might and Right After the Cold War Can Foreign Policy Be Moral? EDITED BY MICHAEL CROMARTIE. Washington: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1993, 135 pp. $18.94. Realism once again comes under attack in this volume, this time from the...

War and Responsibility: Constitutional Lessons of Vietnam and Its Aftermath.
November 1, 1993... War and Responsibility: Constitutional Lessons of Vietnam and its Aftermath. B Y JOHN HARTELY. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993, 244 pp. $24.95. The author, a prominent expert on constitutional law, argues in an entertaining...

The Global Resurgence of Democracy.
November 1, 1993... The Global Resurgence of Democracy. EDITED BY LARRY DIAMOND AND MARC F. PLATTNER. Baltimore (MD): The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 336 pp. $50.00 (paper, $14.95). This is an anthology of articles from The Journal of Democracy, a...

Beyond Spinoff: Military and Commercial Technologies in a Changing World.
November 1, 1993... Beyond Spinoff: Military and Commercial Technologies in a Changing World. BY JOHN A. ALIC AND OTHERS. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992, 428 pp. $35-00 However mixed the record of the Defense Department in stimulating civilian...

The Economics of Global Warming.
November 1, 1993... The Economics of Global Warming. BY WILLIAM R. CLINE. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1992, 416 pp. $40.00. Global climate change is potentially the most serious environmental issue mankind will face. As a result of human...

Openness for Prosperity: Essays in World Economics.
November 1, 1993... Openness for Prosperity: Essays in World Economics. BY HERBERT GIERSCH. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1993, 35x pp. $45.00. This volume gathers 9.0 papers by one of Germanys leading economists, written since 1969. Giersch is an old-fashioned...

NAFTA: An Assessment.
November 1, 1993... NAFTA: An Assessment. BY GARY C. HUFBAUER AND JEFFREY J. SCHOTT. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1993, 164 pp. This book describes and evaluates the North American Free Trade Agreement in light of the authors' assessment...

Postwar Economic Reconstruction and Lessons for the East Today.
November 1, 1993... Postwar Economic Reconstruction and lessons for the East Today. EDITED BY RUDIGER DORNBUSCH, WILHELM NOLLING AND RICHARD LAYARD. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1993, 249 pp. $29.95. A fascinating review, mostly by non-historians, of the...

Poland's Jump to the Market Economy.
November 1, 1993... Poland s Jump to the Market Economy. BY JEFFREY SACHS. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1993, 122 pp. $19-95. This highly readable short volume, which originated as the Robbins Lectures at the London School of Economics, offers a succinct review...

National Innovation Systems.
November 1, 1993... National Innovation Systems. EDITED BY RICHARD R. NELSON. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 541 pp. $49.95. An uneven but highly informative report on the systems for innovation--interpreted broadly to mean the ability to continue to...

The New Calculus: Analyzing Airpower's Changing Role in Joint Theater Campaigns.
November 1, 1993... The New Calculus:Analyzing Airpowers Changing Role in Joint Theater Campaigns. BY CHRISTOPHER BOWIE, FRED FROSTIC, KEVIN LEWIS, JOHN LUNCH, DAVID OCHMANEK AND PHILIP PROPPER. Santa Monica: RAND, 1993, 85 pp. $15.00. An example of...

The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China.
November 1, 1993... The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China. BY RALPH D. SAWYER WITH MEI Ellen. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993, 568 pp. $29.95 More than just a set of translations, this large work contains useful background material and bibliographic...

Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War.
November 1, 1993... Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logisticsfrom the Gulf War. BY WILLIAM G. PAGONIS WITH JEFFREY L. CRUIKSHANK. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1993, 248 pp. $24.95. "Amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics,"...

The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform.
November 1, 1993... The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans Von Seeckt and German Military Reform. BY JAMES CORUM. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992, 274 pp-$29.9S. A superb study of how the German army rebuilt itself after World War I, despite the rigid...

The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945.
November 1, 1993... The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851-1945 . BY DANIEL R. HEADRICK. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991, 289 pp. A fascinating study of the relationship between the ability to communicate and the...

President Kennedy: Profile of Power.
November 1, 1993... President Kennedy: Profile of Power. BY RICHARD REEVES. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993, 763 pp. $27.50. Because it is a story of the highest drama told by a veteran journalist who has dug up all sorts of new information (and from...

Spheres of Influence: The Great Powers Partition Europe, from Munich to Yalta.
November 1, 1993... Spheres oflnfluence: The Great Powers Partition Europe, tom Munich to Yalta. BY LLOYD C. GARDNER. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1993, 302 pp. $28.50. In his latest tour de force, Lloyd Gardner, one of America's most distinguished diplomatic...

Tension Between Opposites: Reflections on the Practice and Theory of Politics.
November 1, 1993... Tension Between Opposites: Reflections on the Practice and Theory of Politics. BY PAUL U. NITZE. New York Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993, 224 pp. $22.00. This slim volume by one of the veterans of the Cold War gets off to a promising start:...

Chester Bowles: New Dealer in the Cold War.
November 1, 1993... Chester Bowles: New Dealer in the Cold War. BY HOWARD B. SCHAFFER. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 1993, 373 PP. $29-95. Chester Bowles was the number-two man in the State Department when he made the mistake of telling Jack...

The Inner Sea: The Mediterranean and Its People.
November 1, 1993... The Inner Sea: The Mediterranean and Its People. BY ROBERT FOX. New York Knopf, 1993, 575 PP. $30.00. A British journalist who for nearly three decades has made the Mediterranean his special beat has written an important compendium about...

The Quest for Stability: Problems of West European Security, 1918-1957.
November 1, 1993... The Quest for Stability: Problems of West European Security, 1918-1957. EDITED BY R. AHMANN, A.M. BIRKE AND M. HOWARD. New York: Oxford University Press/London: The German Historical Institute, 1993, 54-6 pp. $79.oo. A superior...

Spy Trader: Germany's Legendary Spy Broker and Darkest Secrets of the Cold War.
November 1, 1993... Spy Trader: Germanys Legendary Spy Broker and the Darkest Secrets of the Cold War. BY CRAIG R. WHITNEY. New York Times Books, 1993, 375 PP. $95.00. A veteran New York Times reporter, now the Times' diplomatic correspondent in Europe, has...

Beyond the Wall: Germany's Road to Unification.
November 1, 1993... Beyond the Wall: Germanys Road to Unification. BY ELIZABETH POND. Washington: Brookings Institution, 1993, 367 pp- $28-95.

Berlin Witness: An American Diplomat's Chronicle of East Germany's Revolution.
November 1, 1993... Berlin Witness: An American Diplomats BY G. JONATHAN GREENWALD. University Park: Penn State Press, 1993, 347 PP. $32.50. Elizabeth Pond, a long-time journalist in Germany, has written a fine instant history of the complex events and...

The Holocaust, the French and the Jews.
November 1, 1993... The Holocaust, the French and the Jews. BY SUSAN ZUCCOTTI. New York Basic Books, 1993, 383 pp. $30.00.

Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory.
November 1, 1993... Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. BY DEBORAH E. LIPSTADT. New York: The Free Press, 1993, 278 pp. $22.95. The author of an excellent work on the Italians and the Holocaust has delved into a more familiar-and...

Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left After the Cold War.
November 1, 1993... Utopia Unarmed. The Latin American Left After the Cold War. BY JORGE G. CASTANEDA. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993, 498 pp. $27.50. This book deserves to be at the top of any reading list on Latin America. Jorge Castaneda, a well-known...

American Foreign Policy Toward Latin America in the 80s and 90s: Issues and Controversies from Reagan to Bush.
November 1, 1993... American Foreign Policy toward Latin America in the 80s and 90s: Issues and Controversies from Reagan to Bush. BY HOWARD J. WIARDA. New York New York University Press, 1992, 363 pp. $50.00 (paper,$17.50). Few books seem older than...

Cuba in Transition: Options for U.S. Policy.
November 1, 1993... Cuba in Transition: Options for U.S. Policy. BY GILLIAN GUNN. New York: Twentieth Century Fund Paper, 1993, $9-95 (paper). This latest book from Gilljan Gum, best known for her previous work on Southern Africa and Cuban intervention in...

Silencing a People: Destruction of Civil Society in Haiti.
November 1, 1993... Silencing a People: Destruction of Civil Society in Haiti. BY AMERICAS WATCH AND THE NATIONAL COALITION FOR HAITIAN REFUGEES. New York: Americas Watch, 1993, 152 pp. $15.00 (paper). This chilling report based on an investigation conducted...

Reconciling the Solitudes: Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism.
November 1, 1993... Reconciling the Solitudes: Essays on Canadian Federalism and Nationalism. BY CHARLES TAYLOR. Quebec: McGill-Queens University Press, 1993, 208 pp. $39.95. According to Charles Taylor, one of North America's leading thinkers of the...

The Baltic Revolution.
November 1, 1993... The Baltic Revolution. BY ANATOL LIEVEN. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, 454 PP- $29.95 The reader cannot do better than this book when trying to understand events leading to the renewal of Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian...

Beria: Stalin's First Lieutenant.
November 1, 1993... Beria: Sialins First Lieutenant. BY AMY KNIGHT. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993, 294 pp. $24.95. Knight, a long-time student of the Soviet KGB, has written a full political bi ography of Lavrenti Beria, Stalin's fellow...

The End of the Communist Revolution.
November 1, 1993... The End of the Communist Revolution. BY ROBERT V. DANIEL. London: Routledge, 1993, 222 pp. $49-95 (paper, $16.95). Daniels, a senior scholar in the field of Soviet studies, adds little to already published accounts of Gorbachev's effort to...

The Russian Syndrome: One Thousand Years of Political Murder.
November 1, 1993... The Russian Syndrome.' One Thousand Years of Political Murder. BY HELEN CARRERE. D' ENCAUSSE. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1992, 477 PP. $34-95. This is history as an exclamation point. For the general reader who wants an easily digested,...

Figures in a Red Landscape.
November 1, 1993... Figures in a Red Landscape. BY PILAR BONET. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 148 pp. $18.95. Bonet reported from Moscow for the Spanish newspaper El Pais from 1984 to 1991. She must be a modest person. Despite being on...

Russia's Muslim Frontiers.
November 1, 1993... Russias Muslim Frontiers. EDITED BY DALE F. EICKELMAN. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993, 224 pp. $29-95 (paper, $12.95). A book that is more appealing in conception than execution: the product of a Soviet-era collaboration...

The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite.
November 1, 1993... The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite. BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN. New York: The Free Press, 1993, 317 pp. $24.95. Arabists are not like other area specialists, at least not in the popular imagination. If one refers to an Africanist or a...

A Place Among the Nations: Israel Among the Nations.
November 1, 1993... A Place Among the Nations: Israel Among The Nations. BY BENJAMIN NETANYAHU. New York: Bantam Books, 1993, 467 PP. $24.95 The Netanyahu view of Middle East history is simple: endless betrayal by the West of promises made to the Jewish...

Lebanon - Fire and Embers: A History of the Lebanese Civil War.
November 1, 1993... Lebanon--Fire and Embers: A History of the Lebanese Civil War. BY DILIP HIRO. New York: St. Martins Press, 1993. 274 pp. $35.00. Before Bosnia there was Lebanon. In case anyone has forgotten, Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s showed how a...

The Arab Minority in Israel: 1967-1991, Political Aspects.
November 1, 1993... The Arab Minority in Israel, 1967-1991: Political Aspects. BY JACOB M. LANDALl. Oxford (U.K.): Clarendon Press, 1993, 237 PP. $35.00. By the end of this decade, the Arab population of Israel--not including the occupied territories--will be...

The Iran-Iraq War: The Politics of Aggression.
November 1, 1993... The Iran-Iraq War: The Politics of Aggression. EDITED BY FARHANG RAJAEE. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1993, 245 pp. $39.95 (paper, $19.95). One should not be surprised that a conference held in Tehran in 1988 on the topic of...

Islamic Fundamentalism: The New Global Threat.
November 1, 1993... Islamic Fundamentalism: The New Global Threat. BY MOHAMMAD MOHADDESSIN. Washington: Seven Locks Press, 1993, 224 PP- $18-95 ($14.95). The tide alone will insure that some people will read this book, but they should know what they are...

Let the Sea Make a Noise: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur.
November 1, 1993... Let the Sea Make a Noise: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur. EY WAL.TER A. MCDOUGALL.. New York: Basic Books, 1993, 793 PP. $30.00. A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian combines much historical research and great...

Russia and Japan: An Unresolved Dilemma Between Distant Neighbors.
November 1, 1993... Russia and Japan: An Unresolved Dilemma between Distant Neighbors. EDITED BY TSUYOSHI HASEGAWA, JONATHAN HASLAM AND ANDREW KUCHINS. Berkeley: University of California/International and Area Studies, x993, 456 pp. $z6-50 (paper). This is a...

Japan's Political Marketplace.
November 1, 1993... Japans Political Marketplace. BY J. MARK RAMSEYER AND FRANCES MCCALL ROSENBLUTH. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993, 262 pp. $39-95. Against those who believe that Japan is closed and inscrutable, run by a mysterious and unique...

Japan in the World.
November 1, 1993... Japan in the World. EDITED BY MASAO MIYOSHI AND H.D. HAROOTUNIAN Durham: Duke University Press, 1993, 365 pp. $42.50 (paper, $18.95). This collection of essays sheds more light on some parts of American academia than it does on modern...

What Is Japan? Contradictions and Transformations.
November 1, 1993... What Is Japan ? Contradictions and Transformations. BY TAICHI SAKAIYA. New York: Kodansha, 1993, 312 pp. $25.00. A former Japanese bureaucrat seeks to "explain" Japan. He argues that the system of administrative guidance is the common...

The Lands of Charm and Cruelty: Travels in Southeast Asia.
November 1, 1993... The Lands of Charm and Cruelly.' Travels in Southeast Asia. BY STAN SESSER. New York: Knopf, 1993, 306 pp. $23.00. The author has written extensively on Southeast Asia for The New Yorker. In this volume, he has chapters on Singapore, Burma,...

India in Transition: Freeing the Economy.
November 1, 1993... India in Transition: Freeing the Economy. BY JAGDISH BHAGWATI. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993, 108 pp. $39.95 (paper, $12.95). Starting in the early 195os India embarked on a "mixed" economic strategy that attempted to combine features of...

The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century.
November 1, 1993... The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia: From Earliest Times to the Twentieth Century. BY STEVEN KAPLAN. New York New York University Press, 1992, 231 pp. $45.00. These contrasting studies examine aspects of Africa's historical relationship...

Religion and National Integration in Africa: Islam, Christianity, and Politics in the Sudan and Nigeria.
November 1, 1993... Religion and National Integration in Africa: Islam, Christianity, and Politics in the Sudan and Nigeria. BY JOHN O. HUNWICK. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1992, 176 pp. $49.95. This unusual book records the proceedings of a...

Guinea-Bissau: Power, Conflict, and Renewal in a West African Nation.
November 1, 1993... Guinea-Bissau: Power, Conflict, and Renewal in a West African Nation. BY JOSHUA B. FORREST. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992, 165 pp. $36.50 Portugal's African colonies have not fared well in the post-independence era. Guinea-Bissau, although...

Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms.
November 1, 1993... Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms. BY NGUGI WA THIONG'O. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1993, 184 pp. 117.95 (paper).

Burying SM: The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power in Africa.
November 1, 1993... Burying SM. The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power in Africa. BY DAVID WILLIAM COHEN AND E. S. ATIENO ODHIAMBO. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1992, 159 PP. $45.00. These works each address questions of cultural authenticity,...