Foreign Affairs articles from November 2003

Foreign Affairs archives from November 2003

That Was Then: Allen W. Dulles on the Occupation of Germany.
November 1, 2003... A Note from the Editors: In thinking about the reconstruction of Iraq, many have looked for insight to the American experiences in rebuilding Germany and Japan after World War II. Optimists point to similarities across the cases and argue...

The Privatization of Foreign Aid: Reassessing National Largesse.
November 1, 2003... Foreign aid has returned to the center of U.S. foreign policy. In the decade after World War II, U.S. government dollars helped rebuild Europe and Asia and contain Soviet influence. In the decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, aid...

The Case for Cultural Diplomacy: Engaging Foreign Audiences.
November 1, 2003... Early in the Cold War, American efforts at cultural diplomacy were funded by the CIA as well as the State Department's Division of Cultural Relations. Although CIA sponsorship would be inappropriate and counterproductive today, that history is...

China's New Diplomacy.
November 1, 2003... VICTIM NO MORE This summer, as the nuclear crisis in North Korea intensified, most eyes were focused on the adversaries in Washington and Pyongyang. Less noticed, but no less important, was the role of a third player: Beijing. China, long...

China Takes Off.
November 1, 2003... CHINA'S ECONOMIC EXPLOSION Few nations have changed as fast -- or as dramatically -- as China has since the 1970s. The world's most populous nation has radically liberalized its economy and gone from producing low-quality and simple...

Should Hezbollah Be Next?
November 1, 2003... THE A TEAM On September 20, 2001, in a historic speech to a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush famously declared, "Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist...

Reinventing the West.
November 1, 2003... WHITHER THE WEST? Does "the West" still exist? Have we moved from a world with two Europes and one West to a world with one Europe and two Wests? Transatlantic tensions of the past -- the Suez debacle, the French departure from NATO in...

Japan's New Nationalism.
November 1, 2003... ARMED AND DANGEROUS? On December 18, 2001, the Japanese navy detected an unidentified ship sliding through the country's territorial waters off the Amami Islands, in the East China Sea. The vessel, a 100-ton squid fishing ship, bore...

America's Imperial Dilemma.
November 1, 2003... THE RELUCTANT EMPIRE Any realistic discussion of U.S. foreign policy must begin with the recognition that, notwithstanding Americans' views and preferences, most of the world sees the United States as a nascent imperial power. Some nations...

The Next Prize.(natural gas)
November 1, 2003... A GLOBAL GAS MARKET A new global energy business -- natural gas -- is emerging. It will have a far-reaching impact on the world economy, bringing new opportunities and risks, new interdependencies and geopolitical alignments. As natural...

The Baby Trade.
November 1, 2003... A GLOBAL BUSINESS Children are our most precious resource -- and, like most precious resources, they are traded across borders. As more parents have adopted babies from abroad over the past decade, the international market for children has...

Clinton's Strong Defense Legacy.
November 1, 2003... MAJOR MISUNDERSTANDING The notion that President Bill Clinton was a poor steward of the armed forces has become so commonly accepted that it is now often taken for granted -- among moderates and independents as well as Republicans such as...

Being Yasir Arafat: A Portrait of Palestine's President.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography By Barry Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, 325, $28.00 Yasir Arafat may be the most polarizing man alive today. To his detractors, he is an unscrupulous terrorist,...

Remaking the World: Bush and the Neoconservatives.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy By Ivo H. Daalder, James M. Lindsay Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2003, 238, $22.95 Days before the United States launched Operation Iraqi Freedom this past March, a...

The Other 9/11: The United States and Chile, 1973.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability By edited by Peter Kornbluh New York: New Press, 2003, 528, $29.95 There are two types of what Theodore Draper called "present history." The first is based...

Recent Books on International Relations.
November 1, 2003... Rule of Power or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties By Nicole Deller, Arjun Makhijani, John Burroughs New York: Apex Press, 2003, 263 pp., $26.00 U.S. ambivalence about...