Foreign Affairs articles from November 2002

Foreign Affairs archives from November 2002

NATO's Price - Shape Up or Ship Out.
November 1, 2002... The North Atlantic Treaty Organization remains today a unique and invaluable alliance. The single most important international institution serving U.S. national security interests during the Cold War, NATO has since continued to function as a...

Toughest on the Poor - America's Flawed Tariff System.
November 1, 2002... The Bush administration's decision last March to impose tariffs of 8-30 percent on steel has been called everything from hypocrisy and stupidity to Machiavellian political brilliance. The reaction has been a remarkable demonstration of the...

Governing the Internet - Engaging Government, Business, and Nonprofits.
November 1, 2002... The rapid growth of the Internet has led to a worldwide crisis of governance. In the early years of Internet development, the prevailing view was that government should stay out of Internet governance; market forces and self-regulation would...

From Prague to Baghdad: NATO at Risk.
November 1, 2002... repair work required The concrete is crumbling in the foundations of the labyrinth of drab low-rise buildings that house the main offices of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization just off Boulevard Leopold III in the outskirts of...

Russia Renewed?
November 1, 2002... another country Is Vladimir Putin remaking Russia? To many observers, the answer is obvious. The country seems to have changed radically in the last few years. Under its energetic and sober young president, Russia's political system and...

The Real Roots of Arab Anti-Americanism.
November 1, 2002... damn yankees Since last year's attacks on New York and Washington, the conventional wisdom about the motivation behind such deadly terrorism has gelled. The violence, we are often told, was a reaction to misguided U.S. policies. For years,...

A Renaissance for U.S. Trade Policy?
November 1, 2002... liberalization in retreat U.S. trade policy has been facing widespread criticism around the world. Under threat of congressional action, the Bush administration initiated an investigation of steel imports, imposed tariffs of up to 30...

The Responsibility to Protect.
November 1, 2002... revisiting humanitarian intervention The international community in the last decade repeatedly made a mess of handling the many demands that were made for "humanitarian intervention": coercive action against a state to protect people...

When Soldiers Become Cops.
November 1, 2002... takin' it to the streets As violence in Afghanistan continues to simmer, the stabilizing role of American troops there looks increasingly necessary. Even many members of the Bush administration -- which long resisted expanding the U.S....

Can Burma Reform?
November 1, 2002... burmese daze Near the old colonial waterfront in downtown Yangon, Myanmar's capital, groups of squatters dwell on a patch of ragged weeds. In a city famed for its golden pagodas, they build crumbling temporary shelters, beg for kyat (the...

In the Beginning - A Fresh Look at the Early Years of American Empire.(First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power)
November 1, 2002... First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power. by warren zimmermann. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002, 544 pp. $30.00. During the Cold War, political scientists and foreign policy theorists largely ignored...

Pakistan's Slide Into Misery - Exploring a Half-Century of Misrule.(The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000: Disenchanted Allies)
November 1, 2002... The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000: Disenchanted Allies. by Dennis Kux. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2001, 470 pp. $22.95 (paper). Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan. by Mary Anne Weaver. New York: Farrar,...

Who Owns Ideas? The War Over Global Intellectual Property.(Copy Fights)
November 1, 2002... Copy Fights. edited by Adam Thierer and Wayne Crews. Washington: Cato Institute, 2002, 295 pp. $19.95. Last year, in a South African courtroom, global pharmaceutical firms challenged a law that permitted the manufacture and importation of...

Does Saudi Arabia Still Matter? Differing Perspectives on the Kingdom and Its Oil - America's Vital Stakes in Saudi Arabia.
November 1, 2002... The U.S.-Saudi relationship has come under considerable scrutiny recently, with some analysts questioning its centrality in U.S. foreign policy. The discovery that many of the September 11 attackers were Saudis is partly responsible, as...

A Tale of Two Wars - The Other Story of America's Role in the Philippines.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2002... As the impact of September 11 continues to ripple through American society, its aftershocks are not only determining the future but also reshaping the past. Not since the Vietnam War have external affairs so influenced the direction of U.S....

Recent Books on International Relations.
November 1, 2002... Political and Legal G. John Ikenberry The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy After the Cold War. by Charles Kupchan. New York: Alfred Knopf, 2002, 368 pp. $27.95. A bold and elegant new statement about the coming...

Letters to the Editor.
November 1, 2002... Alan J. Kuperman disputes the Rwanda record; Joseph S. Nye, Jr., on American power; and others Wishful Thinking on Rwanda To the Editor: In his review of Samantha Power's new book ("See No Evil: Why America Doesn't Stop Genocide,"...

The Future of AIDS.
November 1, 2002... grim toll in russia, india, and china HIV/AIDS is a disease at once amazingly virulent and shockingly new. Only a generation ago, it lay undetected. Yet in the past two decades, by the reckoning of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS...