Foreign Affairs articles from November 1994

Foreign Affairs archives from November 1994

Quelling the teacup wars: the new world's constant challenge. (importance of maintaining international security through stable relations among the US, Russia and Germany and the reduction of various ethnic conflict that leads to civil war)
November 1, 1994... Almost 50 years ago and almost 75 years ago, our forebears exulted in their military triumphs and wrote of endings and beginnings. Filled with hope and cynicism, they sketched new international maps and institutions. Idealists and realists alike,...

The fall and rise of the communists: guess who's running Central Europe? (failure on the part of the West to realize that Communists have maintained their influence)
November 1, 1994... In the fall Of 1993 and spring Of 1994, Western politicians and journalists were caught off guard by a series of political changes in Central Europe. In Poland, parties led by former communists and their rural allies won a majority of...

Correction. (correction to Foreign Affairs, September-October 1994 article: 'The U.N. and the Use of Force' by Giandomenico Picco) (Correction Notice)
November 1, 1994... The September/October issue contained errors in Giandomenico Picco's article, "The U.N. and the Use of Force," which were attributable to the final editing process and not to the author. A Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United Nations in...

Venture abroad: developing countries need venture capital strategies. (importance of creating economic foundations for financing new business enterprises in Third World nations)
November 1, 1994... At the fall meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, a preeminent international group of free-market scholars, economists wrestled with how best to implement market principles in formerly communist economies. Under certain circumstances, the surest...

The delusion of impartial intervention. (how quasi-military intervention fails when the objective is only a cease-fire and not a peace settlement)
November 1, 1994... PREVENTING PEACE PHYSICIANS HAVE a motto that peacemakers would do well to adopt: "First, do no harm." Neither the United States nor the United Nations have quite grasped this. Since the end of the Cold War unleashed them to intervene in...

In defense of intervention. (justifications for military intervention toachieve political goals in civil war and regional conflict situations)
November 1, 1994... THE WILSONIAN MISSION The Clinton administration's stand on the promotion of human rights and democracy abroad pleases no one. Some criticize the president for lacking the courage of his repeated conviction that America should take an...

Arms and the people. (factors that generate American public support for military intervention in regional or sovereign conflicts)
November 1, 1994... THE MIND OF AMERICA ON FORCE Since the end of the Cold War, the American public has shown three different faces with respect to using U.S. military force abroad: fall support for the Gulf War, transitory support in Somalia, and no support...

The myth of Asia's miracle. (parallel between exaggerated projections of Soviet Union and communist countries' growth rates in the 1950s and 1990s' projections of economic growth in the Pacific Rim countries)
November 1, 1994... A CAUTIONARY FABLE ONCE upon a time, Western opinion leaders found themselves both impressed and frightened by the extraordinary growth rates achieved by a set of Eastern economies. Although those economies were still substantially...

The myth of the Pacific community. (fallacy of believing that Pacific Rim and other nations will integrate economically in an era of declining US influence in Asia)
November 1, 1994... TIMING IS EVERYTHING WHEN PRESIDENT Clinton steps off Air Force One into the steamy tropical heat of Bogor, Indonesia, to attend November's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, there will be buoyant talk of free trade areas...

The man who would be Kim. (the future of North Korea under Kim Jong Il, son of the late Korean leader Kim Il Sung)
November 1, 1994... KOREA'S DANGEROUS FUTURE The Korean peninsula has entered a period of grave uncertainty. The death of North Korean President Kim Il Sung on July 8 came at a critical moment. The United States had just resumed talks to probe whether North...

Giving Taipei a place at the table. (Taiwan's effort to re-join the UN)
November 1, 1994... LET TWO CHINAS BLOOM What in the world is Taiwan up to? More than two decades ago, the Republic of China on Taiwan was forced out of the United Nations when a majority of U.N. members voted to seat the People's Republic of China. At that...

Faces of fundamentalism: Hassan al-Turabi and Muhammed Fadlallah. (Sudanese and Lebanese Islamic fundamentalist leaders)
November 1, 1994... AROUND THE 1980s an eruption of militant Islamic passion sent tremors through the Middle East: the 1979 installation in Shiite MusIim Iran of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini; the occupation that same year of Mecca's holiest shrine; the...

Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles.
November 1, 1994... BY PETER GROSE. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994, 6o6 pp. $30.00. There are very few reliable histories of intelligence, and with good cause. The sources lie, are lost, are nonexistent, are withheld. Journalists (often) lack the patience,...

The Private Life of Chairman Mao.
November 1, 1994... BY DR. LI ZHISUI, WITH THE EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE OF ANNE F. THURSTON. New York: Random House, 1994, 663 pp. $30-00. Dr. Li Zhisui met Mao Zedong for the first time on April 25, 1955, late in the afternoon. The doctor had finished a busy day in...

New French Thought: Political Philosophy.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... EDITED BY MARK LILLA. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 231 pp. $4S.00 (paper, $14.95). Despite the traditional insularity of Anglo-American political and philosophical thought, American intellectual life has been profoundly...

The Handbook of Economic Sociology.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... EDITED BY NEIL J. SMELSER AND RICHARD SWEDBERG. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 804 pp. $95.00. Contemporary neoclassical economics has risen as an imposing structure amid the rubble of the other social sciences, with...

Social Revolutions in the Modern World.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... THEDA SKOCPAL. Newyork: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 344 pp. $49-95 (paper $16.95). In this collection of previously published essays, one of America's leading comparative sociologists refines and expands the arguments she made in...

The Vogue of Revolutions in Poor Countries.
November 1, 1994... BY FORREST D. COLBURN. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 129 pp. $ 19-95 (paper, $14.95). This book is a strong counterpoint to the Skocpol volume above. Written by an author with personal experience of the Sandinista...

Civil Wars: From L.A. to Bosnia.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... MAGNUS ENZENBERGER. New York: New Press, 1994, 144 pp. $18.00. The author of these glum pieces, a German writer and essayist, argues that since the end of the Cold War the nature of war has changed from purposive, ideologically driven...

Collective Security Beyond the Cold War.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... EDITED BY GEORGE E. DOWNS. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994, 275 pp. $39.50. This collection of essays investigates the prospects for collective security after the Cold War from a rather abstract point of view, beginning...

Commitment to Purpose: How Alliance Partnership Won the Cold War.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... RICHARD L. KUGLER. Santa Monica: Rand, 1994, 610 pp. $30.00 (paper). This book is a serious and detailed history of NATO from its founding in 1949 to the present. The author, who worked as a NATO planner in the Pentagon, takes us through...

Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements, vol. IV of the Fundamental Project.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... EDITED BY MARTIN E. MARTY AND R. SCOTT APPLEBY. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, 852 pp. $47-51. Volume IV of the Fundamentalism Project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences picks up where the previous one left...

The Costs of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BARRY SCWARTZ. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994, 393 pp. $25-00. This book, written by an academic psychologist, can be categorized as "left-wing communitarian." Schwartz argues that the expansion of market relationships and the...

A World Fit for People.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... KIRDAR AND LEONARD SILK. New York: New York University Press, 1994, 478 pp. $40.00. As one would expect from a collection of So essays from a recent U.N. Development Program conference in Romania, this volume is extraordinarily...

A History of the World in the Twentieth Century.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... Century. BY J. A. S. GRENVILLE. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994, 973 pp. $39.95. This massive tome follows a relatively new trend among historians to abandon their sometimes narrow parochialism in favor of "world history."...

States and the Reemergence of Global Finance: From Bretton Woods to the 1990s.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY ERIC HELLEINER. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994, 244 pp. $29.95. This book, written by a young Canadian political scientist, reviews changes in both attitudes and public policy toward international movements of capital since...

Western Hemisphere Economic Integration.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY GARY CLYDE HUFBAUER AND JEFFREY J. SCHOTT. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1994, 279 pp. $25.00 (paper). With the completion Of NAFTA and the Uruguay Round, trade strategists are beginning to think about the...

Training and the Private Sector: International Comparisons.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... International Comparisons. EDITED BY LISA M. LYNCH. Chicago: University of Chicago Press/National Bureau of Economic Research, 1994,319 pp. $47.00. We have had much lamentation about the poor quality of American schools, and...

The Polish Economy: Crisis, Reform, and Transformation.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY BEN SLAY. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 229 pp. $35.00. One of the most dramatic economic experiments in recent years was the "big bang" economic reform of Poland. In January 1990, Poland undertook macroeconomic...

Misfire: The History of How America's Small Arms Have Failed Our Military.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY WILLIAM H. HALLAHAN. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994, 578 pp. $30.00. The expose genre of military technology studies took a beating in the aftermath of the Gulf War--all that gold-plated hardware seemed not only to work,...

Stopping the Killing: How Civil Wars End.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY ROY LICKLIDER. New York: New York University Press, 1993, 372 pages. $50.00. A book that can be read either for the seven well-executed case studies or the more theoretical chapters in the preceding and concluding parts of the book,...

Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... Edited by Daniel J. Hughes. San Francisco: Presidio, 1993, 275 pp. $35.00. Helmuth von Moltke, the Prussian chief of staff who, together with Bismarck, masterminded the wars of German unification, was a prolific writer. In this...

A Naval History of World War I.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... I. BY PAUL G. HALPERN. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1994, 591 pp. $55.00. Not for the faint-hearted, this large and solid volume is a welcome if daunting survey of the naval war of 1914-18. Ably summarizing recent scholarship,...

Encyclopedia of the Cold War: A Comprehensive Reference to the International Power Struggle that Dominated World Politics for Almost 50 Years.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY THOMAS S. ARMS. New York: Facts on File, 1994, 628 pp. $70.00. This one-volume compendium is a sign that the Cold War is indeed finished. Generally accurate and concise, it has its share of anomalies--why, one wonders, does Kurt...

The Coup: Tactics in the Seizure of Power.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY BRUCE W. FARCAU. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1994, 222 pp. $55.00. The author, a foreign service officer who appears to have seen a coup or two close-up, offers a well-written account of the mechanics of coups, primarily in Latin...

Sunken Treaties: Naval Arms Control Between the Wars.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY EMILY O. GOLDMAN. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994, 352 pp. $45.00 (paper, $16-95). An interesting work by a political scientist curious to discover the applicability of early Cold War arms control...

The Fifth Star: High Command in an Era of Global War.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY GEORGE M. HALL. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1994, 227 pp. $39-95. A well-intentioned attempt to compare the military leadership of America's senior commanders during World War II. Relying on a limited set of secondary sources, the...

The President's Scientists: Reminiscences of a White House Science Advisor.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY D. ALLAN BROMLEY. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994, 273 pp. $30-00. Bromley served as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and as Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy during the Bush...

The Cold War and American Science: The Military-Industrial-Academic Complex at MIT and Stanford.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY STUART W. LESLIE. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, 332 pp. $16-50 (paper). Leslie makes a powerful case for his central thesis--that defense spending affected the development of postwar American academic science--by...

Reinventing the Pentagon: How the New Public Management Can Bring Institutional Renewal.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY FRED THOMPSON AND L. R. JONES. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994, 298 pp. $29-95. A brisk and cheery argument that the Pentagon can be fixed-mainly by doing sensible things like reducing the amount of effort that goes into...

America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy in the Twentieth Century.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY TONY SMITH. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 442 pp. $24-95 (paper, $19-95). This work, formidable in scope and scholarship, is a rousing defense of liberal Wilsonian internationalism. Smith, a professor at Tufts, gives...

The Origins of the Cold War in Europe: International Perspectives.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... EDITED BY DAVID REYNOLDS. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994, 71 pp. $27-50. This compendium is a welcome addition to the still-burgeoning literature on the origins of the Cold War. Its merit is to provide detailed assessments of...

The Last Years of the Monroe Doctrine: 1945-1993.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY GADDIS SMITH. New York: Hill and Wang, 1994, 280 pp. $25-00. This elegant work, by a distinguished diplomatic historian at Yale, chronicles the use and abuse (the latter, mostly) of U.S. power in the western hemisphere since 1945....

Intervention: The Use of Military Force in the Post-Cold War World.
November 1, 1994... BY RICHARD N. HAASS. Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1994, 255 pp. $24-95. A member of Bush's national security team offers a compact and discriminating survey of whether and how the United States should conduct...

LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY GEORGE C. HERRING. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994, 228 pp. $29.95. Herring, the author of two previous books on Vietnam, looks at L.b.J.'s war leadership and finds it (not surprisingly) seriously wanting. In a crisply...

Cops Across Borders: The Internationalization of U.S. Criminal Law Enforcement.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY ETHAN NADELMANN. University Park: Penn State Press, 1993, 524 pp. $55-00 (paper, $16-95). This pioneering and prodigiously researched work examines how U. S. law enforcement agencies cope with transnational crime in jurisdictions...

The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY H. R. HALDEMAN. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1994, 698 pp. $27-50. This fascinating document sheds light on virtually every aspect of the Nixon presidency. Many of the entries are priceless. We listen in as John Connally tells...

Monty, the Lonely Leader, 1944-1945: A Biography of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY ALISTAIR HORNE AND DAVID MONTGOMERY. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994, 381 pp. $25-00. A well-known, prolific English historian has written a superb study of Montgomery in the last year of World War II, with the help of...

Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY ANNE APPLEBAUM. New York: Pantheon/Shocken, 1994,320 pp. $24.00. A London-based American journalist travels to remote places, beginning in Kaliningrad and ending in Odessa, talking to people who have seen borders move, conquerors come and...

Freedom with Responsibility: The Social Market Economy in Germany, 1918-1963.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY A. J. NICHOLLS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 422 pp. $45.00. Nicholls, an experienced English historian of Germany, examines here the critical influence of Ludwig Erhard, who as federal minister of economic affairs presided over...

Beyond Borders: West European Migration Policy Towards the 21st Century.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY SARAH COLLINSON. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1993, 116 pp. A brief, analytical assessment of the questions that greater migration pose for individual states with their different traditions, policies, and experiences at...

Radical Right-Wing Populism in Western Europe.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY HANS-GEORG BETZ. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 222 pp. $45.00 (paper, $18.95). A survey of the varying fortunes of radical right-wing parties in all the West European countries, Austria emphatically included. The author, a young...

Political Traditions in Modern France.(Brief Review)
November 1, 1994... BY SUDHIR HAZAREESINGH. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994,355 pp $53.00 (paper 19.95). An introduction to the great ideological traditions in French politics, tracing the impact of past thought and events on current politics. An...

Between Mussolini and Hitler: The Jews and the Italian Authorities in France and Tunisia.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY DANIEL CARPI. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1994, 341 pp. $49.95. An Israeli historian, combing Italian and French archives, reconstructs the way Fascist officials in Italian-occupied areas during the war tried to protect Jews...

Omgus-Handbuch: Die amerikanische Militarregierung in Deutschland, 1945-1949.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY HERAUSGEGEBEN VON CHRISTOPH WEISZ. Munchen: R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munchen, 1994, 847 pp. A much-delayed product of an American-German project to collect the vast documentation of the Office of Military Government for Germany. German...

The New World of the Gothic Fox: Culture and Economy in English and Spanish America.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY CLAUDIO VELIZ. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, 2S4 pp. $35.00. Claudio Veliz is a distinguished Chilean sociologist and historian who has spent much of his career in English-speaking countries (England, Australia, and now the...

Are Economic Feforms Propelling Cuba to the Market?
November 1, 1994... BY CARMELO MESALAGO. Miami: University of Miami, 1994, 84 pp. $11.95 (paper). This book provides an essential background briefing by one of the leading academic experts on Cuba, and goes a long way toward explaining the dilemmas facing the...

Back from the Future: Cuba Under Castro.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY SUSAN EVA ECKSTEIN. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 286 pp. $29.95. This important book by Susan Eckstein, a professor of sociology at Boston University, is an ambitious attempt to provide a broad overview of Cuba under the...

Collective Responses to Regional Problems: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... EDITED BY CARL KAYSEN, ROBERT A. PASTOR, AND LAURA W. REED. Cambridge: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1994, 177 pp. $10.00. A valuable collection of essays from a project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that examined...

Images and Intervention: U.S. Policies in Latin America.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY MARTHA L. COTTAM. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994, 220 pp. $49.95 (paper, $19-95). A very timely, clear-headed, and jargon-free analysis of the factors that contribute to U. S. intervention in Latin America and that help...

Lenin: Life and Legacy.
November 1, 1994... BY DMITRI VOLKOGONOV. New York: The Free Press, 1994, 509 pp. $29.95. For those wondering what a serious Russian historian would say about Lenin when given a chance to write freely, here is the answer. Volkogonov, a career military officer,...

The Dream that Failed: Reflections on the Soviet Union.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY WALTER LAQUEUR. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 225 pp. $25.00. Much to Laqueur's credit, this book is about large questions: What is the essence and meaning of the Bolshevik Revolution? Why did the Soviet Union collapse when it...

Imperium.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994, 331 pp. $24.00. Kapuscinski is a poet masquerading as a journalist. Thus, these sketches from three encounters with the Soviet Union--one as a boy living through the Soviet occupation of...

The Making of Eastern Europe.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY PHILIP LONGWORTH. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 320 pp. $17.95 (paper). Longworth employs an interesting device to recount the history of Eastern Europe: He tells the story backwards. Beginning with the post-Stalin period, he considers...

The Geography of Nationalism in Russia.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY ROBERT J. KAISER. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 471 pp. $65.00. Kaiser is a political geographer, and he has written this thick academic book, he says, to "bring geography back into the study of nations and nationalism."...

The Failure of Political Islam.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... By Olivier Roy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994, 229 pp. $22-95. If you read only one book on political Islam, this should be it. Olivier Roy, an authority on the complex politics of Afghanistan, has turned his attention to the...

Beyond Alliance: Israel and U.S. Foreign Policy.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY CAMILLIE MANSOUR. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, 324 pp. $37-50. What accounts for the remarkable level of American support for Israel over the years? This question has given rise to an extensive literature, much of it...

The United Nations, Iran, and Iraq: How Peacemaking Changed.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY CAMERON R. HUME. Bloomington: Indiana University Press/Washington: Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, 1994, 269 pp. $29-95. The United Nations, long maligned for its inability to live up to the expectations of...

On Both Banks of the Jordan: A Political Biography of Wasfi Al-Tall.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY ASHER SUSSER. Portland: Frank Cass, 1994, 208 pp. $35.00. Few Middle East statesmen have been the subject of good political biographies. Wasfi al-Tall certainly merits a booklength study of his remarkable political career. He served as...

A Voice of Reason: Hanan Ashrawi and Peace in the Middle East.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY BARBARA VICTOR. New York: Harcourt Brace Co., 1994, 2S8 pp. $24-95. Hyperbole abounds in this well-intentioned but seriously flawed portrait of an articulate Palestinian figure. The dust jacket sets the tone. "And why have the leaders of...

Egypt During the Nasser Years: Ideology, Politics, and Civil Society.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY KIRK J. BEATTIE. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994, 260 pp. $60.00. The Nasser era is far enough in the past that one can have some historical perspective on it, but it is still close enough that the inquisitive researcher can talk to those...

Syria and the United States: Eisenhower's Cold War in the Middle East.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY DAVID W. LESCH. Boulder: Westview, 1992, 242 pp. $49-50. Revisionism concerning Eisenhower's presidency has been based largely on the evidence that the president was much more in charge of policy than many had thought at the time and that...

The End of Japan, Inc.: And How the New Japan Will Look.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY CHRISTOPHER WOOD. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994, 227 pp. $22.00. A few years ago, so-called "revisionist" writers on Japan were telling us that Japan, Inc. was immutable, infallible, and relentlessly set on a course of world economic...

The Undefeated: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Greater Japan.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY ROBERT HARVEY. London: Macmillan, 1994, 633 pp. A few years ago, so-called "revisionist" writers on Japan were telling us that Japan, Inc. was immutable, infallible, and relentlessly set on a course of world economic domination. Today...

The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY SUSAN L. SHIRK. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, 399 pp. $48.00 (paper, $15.00). This superbly researched book will take its place alongside Harry Harding's China's Second Revolution as the definitive study of the politics...

Asia Pacific Regionalism: Readings in International Economic Relations.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... EDITED BY ROSS GARNAUT AND PETER DRYSDALE. Pymble: HarperEducational/Canberra: The Australia-Japan Research Centre, 1994, 433 pp. This collection of papers by prominent economists from the United States and East Asia is a gold mine of...

Japan and Russia: A Reevaluation in the Post-Soviet Era.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY WILLIAM F. NIMMO. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994, 207 pp. $55-00. The author is an American historian who teaches both Japanese and Russian history and who lived, studied, and taught in Japan for 12 years. He is one of America's few...

The U.S.-Japan Security Relationship After the Cold War.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY FRANCIS FUKUYAMA AND KONGDAN OH. Santa Monica: RAND, $1993, 106 pp. $15.00 (paper). For American readers, perhaps the most useful part of this study by two RAND Corporation analysts is the chapter on the Japanese reassessment of Japan's...

United States Foreign Policy Toward Africa: Incrementalism, Crisis, and Change.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY PETER J. SCHRAEDER. New York: Cambridge University Press, 19 94, 347 pp. $59-95 (paper, $27-95). To most Americans, Africa is remote, inconsequential, and confusing. "So many countries," as one diplomat put it, "so many wars." How can...

Burundi: Ethnocide as Discourse and Practice.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY RENE LEMARCHAND. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 2o6 pp. $54-95. Burundi's postcolonial history is a tangled tale of tribal, factional, and regional competition punctuated by horrific massacres each time the dominance of the...

Kenyan Capitalists, the State, and Development.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY DAVID HIMBARA. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994, 192 pp. 35-00. This provocative and well-researched analysis of Kenya's economic rise and fall challenges past academic theories regarding the role of indigenous capitalists...

The Transition to Independence in Namibia.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY LIONEL CLIFFE AND OTHERS. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994, 293 pp. $38-50. This thorough and informative election study is based on field observations by a team of British and African researchers led by Cliffe, a Leeds...

Invisible Crimes: U.S. Private Intervention in the War in Mozambique.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1994... BY KATHI AUSTIN. Washington: Africa Policy Information Center, 1994, 50 pp. $5.50. Although the State Department in the Reagan years officially condemned the brutal insurgent movement in Mozambique known as Renamo, it simultaneously...

Is culture destiny: the myth of Asia's anti-Democratic values; a response to Lee Kuan Yew. (former Singapore prime minister)
November 1, 1994... In his interview with Foreign Affairs (March/April 1994), Singapore's former prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, presents interesting ideas about cultural differences between Western and East Asian societies and the political implications of those...