Foreign Affairs articles from November 2005

Foreign Affairs archives from November 2005

Mbeki's South Africa.
November 1, 2005... A TALE OF TWO COUNTRIES In the 11 years since it abandoned white minority rule, South Africa has become two different countries. The first is a dramatic success story: once wracked by violence and synonymous with human rights abuses, this...

Who Will Control the Internet?
November 1, 2005... WASHINGTON BATTLES THE WORLD As historic documents go, the statement issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce on June 30 was low-key even by American standards of informality. No flowery language, no fountain-penned signatures, no Great...

Independence for Kosovo.
November 1, 2005... YIELDING TO BALKAN REALITY Amid the unraveling of Yugoslavia that began in the early 1990s, the United States and its European allies have staunchly defended multiethnic society in the Balkans. The military interventions in Bosnia and...

Iraq: Learning the Lessons of Vietnam.
November 1, 2005... SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT Richard Nixon was elected in 1968 on the assumption that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War. He didn't have any such plan, and my job as his first secretary of defense was to remedy that -- quickly. The only...

The Iraq Syndrome.
November 1, 2005... THE WAR AND THE PUBLIC American troops have been sent into harm's way many times since 1945, but in only three cases -- Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq -- have they been drawn into sustained ground combat and suffered more than 300 deaths in...

The End of Europe?
November 1, 2005... THE GREAT DEPRESSION After French and Dutch voters rejected the draft treaty establishing a constitution for Europe last spring, there was no doubt that a crisis of unprecedented seriousness confronted the European Union. The shock was so...

Fighting the War of Ideas.
November 1, 2005... VANGUARD PARTY Islam and the West are not engaged in a clash of civilizations -- at least not yet. But the West is being drawn into the clash of two competing ideologies within the Islamic world. Proponents of the first believe that Islam...

Base Politics.
November 1, 2005... REDEPLOYING U.S. TROOPS This past July, the government of Uzbekistan evicted U.S. personnel from the Karshi-Khanabad air base, which Washington had used as a staging ground for combat, reconnaissance, and humanitarian missions in...

Blowback Revisited.
November 1, 2005... TODAY'S INSURGENTS IN IRAQ ARE TOMORROW'S TERRORISTS When the United States started sending guns and money to the Afghan mujahideen in the 1980s, it had a clearly defined Cold War purpose: helping expel the Soviet army, which had invaded...

The Limits of Intelligence Reform.
November 1, 2005... BATTLE ROYALE If the attacks of September 11, 2001, changed everything, then it is also true that some things changed more quickly than others. Within a year and a half, the United States fought one war and prepared for another, and...

Iraq and the Democratic Peace.
November 1, 2005... Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War By EDWARD D. MANSFIELD and JACK SNYDER : MIT Press, 2005, 288 pp., $32.95 WHO SAYS DEMOCRACIES DON'T FIGHT? Seldom if ever has the hostility between academics and the U.S. president...

The Ethical Economist.
November 1, 2005... The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth By BENJAMIN M. FRIEDMAN : Knopf, 2005, 592 pp., $35.00 GROWTH MAY BE EVERYTHING, BUT IT'S NOT THE ONLY THING Economists have long been a natural constituency in favor of growth. Since even the...