Foreign Affairs articles from November 2001

Foreign Affairs archives from November 2001

The Sentry's Solitude.
November 1, 2001... PAX AMERICANA IN THE ARAB WORLD From one end of the Arab world to the other, the drumbeats of anti- Americanism had been steady. But the drummers could hardly have known what was to come. The magnitude of the horror that befell the United...

The New Battle for Central America.
November 1, 2001... COLD WAR, HOT WAR The last time Central America received much play in the American news media was during the 1980s, when the region, one of the Cold War's hot zones, was plagued by civil war. For much of the decade, Soviet- and...

Afghanistan, Graveyard of Empires.
November 1, 2001... THE GREAT GAME Michni Point, Pakistan's last outpost at the western end of the barren, winding Khyber Pass, stands sentinel over Torkham Gate, the deceptively orderly border crossing into Afghanistan. Frontier Scouts in gray shalwar...

America Adrift: Writing the History of the Post Cold Wars.(War in a Time of Peace)(Review)
November 1, 2001... War in a Time of Peace. BY DAVID HALBERSTAM. New York: Scribner's, 2001, 496 pp. $28.00. For three decades now, David Halberstam has been, in the phrase of George Kennan, our most readable "historian of the present." Halberstam specializes...

The Myth of Ethnic Warfare.(Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2001... Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War. BY STUART J. KAUFMAN. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001, 288 pp. $19.95. The deadly clashes that erupted between Russians and ethnic Tatars in the early 1990s were utterly...

The Minister and the Terrorist.
November 1, 2001... DAY OF THE JACKAL Shortly before noon on December 21, 1975, six people entered the headquarters of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Vienna's Ringstrasse. Confirming that an OPEC summit was still in progress, they...

America's Real Russian Allies.
November 1, 2001... MASS SUPPORT The terrorist attacks that rocked the United States on September 11 opened a new chapter in the country's relations with the outside world. Already alliances are shifting, U.S. troops are redeploying, and policymakers are...

From Poster Child to Basket Case.
November 1, 2001... BEARISH IN BUENOS AIRES Several years ago, during the heyday of Argentina's market restructuring, a prominent local economist was interviewed about the country's long-term prospects. Despite a backdrop of rapidly expanding output and low...

Preparing for the Next Attack.
November 1, 2001... THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM In the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, America has been mourning its dead and tending to its wounded. But the country also has been building up an angry resolve to respond to this...

RECENT BOOKS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.(Bibliography)
November 1, 2001... WESTERN HEMISPHERE KENNETH MAXWELL The United States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict. BY JORGE I. DOMINGUEZ AND RAFAEL FERNANDEZ DE CASTRO. New York: Routledge, 2001, 184 pp. $75.00 (paper, $17.95). This timely book...

The Mirage of Mexican Guest Workers.
November 1, 2001... EVERYBODY WINS? For decades now, the unlawful migration of millions of Mexican nationals into the United States has been a source of sometimes passionate disagreement on both sides of the border. In the past year, new presidents have come...

The Greening of the WTO.
November 1, 2001... SAVE THE TURTLES Anyone who has followed the negative press coverage of the World Trade Organization over the last few years would be shocked to learn that the WTO has started to develop an environmental conscience. With only a few tweaks,...

Will Chavez Lose His Luster?(Hugo Chavez of Venezuela)
November 1, 2001... THE TICKING CLOCK On December 6, 1998, Venezuelans stunned the world by electing as their president Hugo Chavez, a firebrand who six years earlier had sought to overthrow the country's long-standing democracy in a bloody but unsuccessful...