Foreign Affairs articles from September 1993

Foreign Affairs archives from September 1993

The summoning. (Responses to Samuel P. Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations?")
September 1, 1993... In Joseph Conrad's Youth, a novella published at the turn of the century, Marlowe, the narrator, remembers when he first encountered "the East": And then, before I could open my lips, the East spoke to me, but it was in a ...

The dangers of decadence: what the rest can teach the West. (Responses to Samuel P. Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations?")
September 1, 1993... In key Western capitals there is a deep sense of unease about the future. The confidence that the West would remain a dominant force in the 21st century, as it has for the past four or five centuries, is giving way to a sense of foreboding that...

The case for optimism: the West should believe in itself. (Responses to Samuel P. Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations?")
September 1, 1993... On November 9, 1989, our era ended. The breaching of the Berlin Wall sounded the end of not merely the Cold War, but an epoch of global conflict that started with the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand on June 28, 1914. Now, with the...

Civilization grafting: no culture is an island. (Responses to Samuel P. Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations?")
September 1, 1993... The end of the Cold War has indeed brought about a new phase in world politics, yet its impact is not unidirectional. The tense confrontation between the two armed camps has disappeared and in this sense ideological conflict seems to have come...

The modernizing imperative: tradition and change. (Responses to Samuel P. Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations?")
September 1, 1993... I approach the work of Samuel P. Huntington with keen interest and high expectations. Like most political scientists, I have learned much from his writings. Now in his article "The Clash of Civilizations?" he once again raises new questions....

Do civilizations hold? (Responses to Samuel P. Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations?")
September 1, 1993... Samuel P. Huntington has resurrected an old controversy in the study of international affairs: the relationship between "microcosmic" and "macrocosmic" processes. Partisans of the former single out the nation state as the basic unit, or...

The West is best. (Responses to Samuel P. Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations?")
September 1, 1993... We must be in terror of the civilizations conjured b Samuel P. Huntington for the same reason that Nils Bohr admonished us to fear ghosts: We see them, and we know they are not there! We have another reason to be in terror of them. Without...

Building a new NATO: a new transatlantic bargain.
September 1, 1993... A NEW TRANSATLANTIC BARGAIN Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Europe is headed toward crisis. Memories of democracy's triumph have faded. The immense problems facing the new democracies in the East are increasingly...

The collapse of 'the West.'
September 1, 1993... OLD THINKING IN A NEW WORLD Underlying the recent debates over Bosnia, the Balkans and Eastern Europe more generally, there is a much broader and unanswered question about the condition and future of the West. The proponents of...

Japan's non-revolution.
September 1, 1993... THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY The recent and ubiquitous speculation in the world's media that Japanese society has reached a watershed is based more on wishful thinking than on an understanding of the forces at work in the Japanese body...

Can NAFTA change Mexico? (proposed North American Free Trade Agreement)
September 1, 1993... THE RISKS OF FREE TRADE Many Mexicans have welcomed NAFTA as an undisguised blessing, whatever its effects on the United States. In the government and among the general population the agreement is seen as a ready course to...

Oil: reopening the door. (petroleum industry)
September 1, 1993... GLOBAL AGAIN Twenty years after burst into international politics with the 1973 crisis, oil remains a strategic commodity critical in the global balance of power. But, looking toward the 21st century, the perspective has changed...

The battle for Egypt.
September 1, 1993... CAN MUBARAK SURVIVE? Egypt's usual calm has been shattered. Nearly every day new incidents occur in the deadly struggle between the government of President Hosni Mubarak and Islamic militants known as the Gamaa al-Islamiya, or Islamic...

Freedom and its discontents. (Germany)
September 1, 1993... THE TRAVAILS OF THE NEW GERMANY In 1983 the president of the Federal Republic, Richard von Weizsacker, published a collection of essays under the title German History Has Not Stopped. Even he could not have predicted the pace of...

Holding together South Africa.
September 1, 1993... THE THREAT OF POLARIZATION Observers of south African apartheid have long predicted that the imposed system of racial separation could only come to a cataclysmic end. The violent aftermath of the April 12 assassination of the popular...

Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State.
September 1, 1993... BY GEORGE SHULTZ. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993, 1,184 pp. $30.00 George Shultz was the nation's last Cold War secretary of state. When he came to office in the summer of 1982, the conflict with the Soviet Union appeared to have...

Churchill: A Major New Assessment of his Life in Peace and War.
September 1, 1993... EDITED BY ROBERT BLAKE AND WM. ROGER LOUIS. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1993, $29.95. Winston Churchill is probably more revered today in the United States than he is in Britain. For the British he is a great statesman, certainly, and...

Bridging the Gap: Theory and Practice in Foreign Policy.
September 1, 1993... BY ALEXANDER GEORGE. Washington: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1993, 162 pp. $24.95 (paper, $14.95). This gem of a book should be of compeuing interest to the many in the foreign affairs community who have an interest in both...

The Spirit of Community: Rights, Responsibilities and the Communitarian Agenda.
September 1, 1993... BY AMITAI ETZIONI. New York: Crown Publishers, 1993, 313 pp. $22.00. This is a book for the 1990s. An eminent sociologist and political thinker, Amitai Etzioni senses the pervasive unease in our present society and calls for a new social...

National Identity.
September 1, 1993... BY ANTHONY D. SMITH. Reno (NV): University of Nevada Press, 1991, 198 pp. $29.95 (paper, $12.95). BY JULIA KRISTEVA. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993, 102 pp. $18.50. We have entered a period of renewed nationalism and ethnic...

The Promises We Keep: Human Rights, the Helsinki Process and American Foreign Policy.
September 1, 1993... BY WILLIAM KOREY. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993, 518 pp. $45.00. This is a long, detailed and knowledgeable history of the Helsinki process, from the origins of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to the recent past....

Multilateralism Matters: The Theory and Praxis of an Institutional Form.
September 1, 1993... BY JOHN GERARD RUGGIE. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993, 474 pp. $60.00. Multilateralism--seeking cooperative approaches to international problems--has emerged as a key theme of the foreign policy of the Clinton administration....

Why Nations Cooperate: Circumstance and Choice in International Relations.
September 1, 1993... BY BARRY BUZAN, CHARLES JONES AND RICHARD LITTLE. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993, 245 pp. $40.00 (paper, $15.50). These two volumes attest to the vitality of current theorizing in international relations. In the first book, a...

The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism.
September 1, 1993... BY BARRY BUZAN, CHARLES JONES AND RICHARD LITTLE. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993, 245 pp. $40.00 (paper, $15.50). These two volumes attest to the vitality of current theorizing in international relations. In the first book, a...

"Reconstructing Nations and States." Summer 1993 issue of Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 122, no. 3.
September 1, 1993... Summer 1993 issue of Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. 122, No. 3. Cambridge (MA): American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993, $7.95. Nationalism has always posed a problem for Western (liberal)...

War, Strategy and International Politics: Essays in Honor of Sir Michael Howard.
September 1, 1993... BY LAWRENCE FREEDMAN, PAUL HAYES AND ROBERT O'NEILL. Oxford (UK): Clarendon Press, 1992, 322 pp. $69.00. Sir Michael Howard is the preeminent military historian in the English-language world today. His magisterial works on (among other...

Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament, 3 vols.
September 1, 1993... BY RICHARD DEAN BURNS. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993, 1,692 pp. $280.00. These three slabs of an attractively bound and printed encyclopedia, edited by a professor of history at California State University, have a great deal to...

The Development of Military Thought: The Nineteenth Century.
September 1, 1993... BY AZAR GAT. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, 273 pp. $69.00. One might have titled this Makers of Modern Strategy: The Advanced Course. Gat plunges into his subject in five uneven chapters dealing with positivism and romanticism,...

The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents and Nuclear Weapons.
September 1, 1993... BY SCOTT D. SAGAN. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press, 1993, 279 pp. $29.95. Sagan informs his readers that he undertook this project believing that the chance of an accidental nuclear explosion was very low, and that he came to a...

Nuclear Proliferation and the Future of Conflict.
September 1, 1993... BY MARTIN VAN CREVELD. New York: The Free Press, 1993, 173 pp. $22.95. A slender book, and more slender than it seems, because the first two chapters consist of an able, if unexceptional, potted history of war before 1945 and a...

The Origins of U.S. Nuclear Strategy, 1945-1953.
September 1, 1993... BY SAMUEL R. WILLIAMSON AND STEVEN L. REARDEN. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993, 224 pp. $45.00. A book that is exactly what it seems--a good, short, reliable and straightforward account of how nuclear weapons became "America's first...

In Defence of Naval Supremacy: Finance, Technology, and British Naval Policy, 1889-1914.
September 1, 1993... BY JOHN TETSURO SUMIDA. New York: Routledge, 1993, 480 pp. $19.95 (paper). It is a historical commonplace that the construction of the HMS Dreadnought (laid down in 1905) heralded a revolution in naval affairs, a transformation of naval...

Voices Prophesying War: Future Wars, 1763-3749, 2d ed.
September 1, 1993... BY I. F. CLARKE. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, 268 pp. $2S.00. Clarke, who served in British intelligence during the Second World War and made a second career teaching English, surveys with amused irony many of the futuristic...

Reconcilable Differences? The United States-Japan Economic Conflict.
September 1, 1993... BY C. FRED BERGSTEN AND MARCUS NOLAND. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1993, 271 pp. $19.95 (paper). Despite the title, this book is mostly on Japan; it contains some discussion of U.S. macroeconomic policy, but nothing...

The Gnat Is Older than Man: Global Environment and the Human Agenda.
September 1, 1993... BY CHRISTOPHER D. STONE. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press, 1993, 341 pp. $21.95. Despite the main title, this is a serious book by a professor of international law concerned with environmental issues. The book contains much...

Troubled Lands: The Legacy of Soviet Environmental Destruction.
September 1, 1993... BY D. J. PETERSON. Boulder (CO): Westview Press/Washington: RAND, 1993, 276 pp. $55.00 (paper, $19.95). Drawing mainly on interviews and Soviet official papers and press reports, the author documents thoroughly the extensive and depressing...

Managing the World Economy: The Consequences of Corporate Alliances.
September 1, 1993... BY PETER F. COWHEY AND JONATHAN D. ARON SON. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993, 343 pp. $18.95 (paper). The authors are fascinated by international corporate alliances, which while preserving the nationality of partners...

The Presidency of James Earl Carter.
September 1, 1993... BY BURTON I. KAUFMAN. Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 1993, 245 pp. $29.95 (paper, $14.95). This is the first scholarly assessment of the Carter presidency based on the materials available in the Carter Presidential Library....

Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953-61.
September 1, 1993... BY DAVID L. ANDERSON. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993, 276 pp. $16.50 (paper). "The Eisenhower administration simply postponed the day of reckoning in Vietnam." This is the essential thesis of Professor Anderson's (University of...

Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture.
September 1, 1993... BY NOAM CHOMSKY. Boston (MA): South End Press, 193, 172 pp. $14.00 (paper). One of the few remaining Marxists, Noam Chomsky here undertakes to scold fellow leftists such as Oliver Stone for succumbing to the Camelot myth and asserting that...

The European Rescue of the Nation-State.
September 1, 1993... BY ALAN S. MILWARD. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, 477 pp. $45.00. This is a major work, at once historical and analytical, tracing and interpreting the development of the European Community, emphasizing critical aspects...

Roy Jenkins: A Life at the Center.
September 1, 1993... BY ROY JENKINS. New York: Random House, 1991, 585 pp. $30.00. Son of a coal miner and Labor Member of Parliament, Roy Jenkins rose to extra-ordinary heights in British life and politics: a tribute to his great talents and to a society that...

Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization.
September 1, 1993... BY RICHARD F. KUISEL. Berkeley: Universlty of California Press, 1992, 296 pp. $30.00. A fine study of French attitudes toward America and toward the presence of American culture, real and putative, in French life after World War II. The...

Mission and Betrayal: Working with Franklin Roosevelt to Help Save Britain and Europe, 1940-1945.
September 1, 1993... BY RENE DE CHAMBRUN. Stanford (CA): Hoover Institution Press, 1993, 221 pp. $18.95. Chambrun, a direct descendant of Lafayette and elegantly connected in France and the United States, came here after the fall of France, a defender of...

Fascist Europe: The Rise of Racism and Xenophobia.
September 1, 1993... BY GLYN FORD. Boulder (CO): Westview PRESS In 1984-85 the European Parliament appointed a Committee of Inquiry to study the rise of racism and fascism, and subsequently the European Parliament, Council and Commission adopted a Joint...

A Certain Idea of France: French Security Policy and the Gaullist Legacy.
September 1, 1993... BY PHILIP H. GORDON. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press, 1993, 255 pp. $35.00. In examining de Gaulle's views on French national security and his legacy, this book begins with a finely balanced stud of de Gaulle, acknowledging the...

The German Expellees: Victims in War and Peace.
September 1, 1993... BY ALFRED-MAURICE DE ZAYAS. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993, 169 pp. $35.00. The author has for years been concerned with the fate of millions of Germans who in the final stages of Hitler's war became victims--either by experiencing the...

Fidel Castro.
September 1, 1993... BY ROBERT E. QUIRK. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1993, 800 pp. $35.00. Robert Quirk, a professor of history emeritus at Indiana University, concludes his very long and well-written book on Cuba with the observation that Fidel Castro...

Cuba After the Cold War.
September 1, 1993... EDITED BY CARMELO MESA-LAGO. Pittsburgh (PA): University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, 352 pp. $39.95 (paper, $16.95). Robert Quirk, a professor of history emeritus at Indiana University, concludes his very long and well-written book on Cuba...

The Dependency Movement: Scholarship and Politics in Development Studies.
September 1, 1993... BY ROBERT A. PACKENHAM. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 1992, 400 pp. $42.50. Robert Packenham here analyzes and contrasts various concepts of economic development and social and political justice within the Latin American...

The Conscience of Worms and the Cowardice of Lions: Cuban Politics and Culture in an American Context.
September 1, 1993... BY IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ. New Brunswick (NJ): Transaction Publishers, 1993, 81 pp. $24.95 (paper, $14.95). Professor Horowitz could hardly be more sparse in his prose or pointed in his opinions. His provocatively entitled booklet is based...

Reflections on Economic Development: Toward a New Latin American Consciousness.
September 1, 1993... BY ENRIQUE V. IGLESIAS. Washington: Inter-American Development Bank, 1992, 158 pp. $15.95. Enrique Iglesias, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, provides a very effective overview of the economic consensus now emerging in...

Latin America's Turnaround: Privatization, Foreign Investment, and Growth.
September 1, 1993... EDITED BY PAUL H. BOEKER. San Francisco (CA): Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1993, 190 pp. $14.95. Paul Boeker's volume provides an optimistic view that a "turnaround" has occurred in Latin America and can be sustained. Focusing on...

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire.
September 1, 1993... BY DAVID REMNICK. New York: Random House, 1993, 576 pp. $25.00 Remnick paints like Seurat. Rather than depict reality in straightforward analytical terms, he lets the shape of the Soviet Union's passing emerge from a mass of variously...

Hope Dies Last: The Autobiography of Alexander Dubcek.
September 1, 1993... EDITED BY JIRI HOCHMAN. New York: Kodansha International, 1993, 354 pp. $27.50. Even if he had not been at the center of the drama in 1968, Dubcek's story would be fascinating in itself He was born, as he says, of "a pair of Slovak...

Alternative Paths: Soviets and Americans 1917-1920.
September 1, 1993... BY DAVID W. MCFADDEN. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 448 pp. $60.00. The tale of the encounter between Woodrow Wilson's United States and Lenin's newly triumphant Bolsheviks has been told many times before, but mostly as part of...

Black Hundred: The Rise of the Extreme Right in Russia.
September 1, 1993... BY WALTER LAQUEUR. New York: HarperCollins, 1993, 318 pp. $27.50. In the detritus of the Soviet Union a variety of radical nationalist, sometimes reactionary, sometimes racist, sometimes antediluvian groupings have formed. Laqueur, in a...

Protestantism and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia.
September 1, 1993... EDITED BY SABRINA PETRA RAMET. Durham (NC): Duke University Press, 1993, 441 pp. $60.00. The last of a three-volume study of the Christian churches in the former socialist states of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. In this instance...

The Sacred Cause: Civil-Military Conflict over Soviet National Security, 1917-1992.
September 1, 1993... BY THOMAS M. NICHOLS. Ithaca (NY): Cornell University Press, 1993, 259 pp. $32.50. The subject is not new. The relationship between the Soviet military and the Soviet political class has been studied and disputed often before. Of the two...

Russia and Japan.
September 1, 1993... EDITED BY TSUYOSHI HASEGAWA, JONATHAN HASLAM, AND ANDREW C. KUCHINS. Berkeley: University of California, International and Area Studies, 1993, 456 pp. $26.50. A comprehensive examination of the Soviet/Russian relationship with Japan...

Hostage to Revolution: Gorbachev and Soviet Security Policy, 1985-1991.
September 1, 1993... BY COIT D. BLACKR. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993, 239 pp. $16.95 (paper). When Blacker wrote most of this book, he had meant it to be a broad, basic and accessible survey of how much the Soviet superpower adversary's...

In from the Cold: Germany, Russia, and the Future of Europe.
September 1, 1993... EDITED BY VLADIMIRE BARANOVSKY AND HANS-JOACHIM SPANGER. Boulder (CO): Westview Press, 1993, 321 pp. $49.95. This is a book that should have been overtaken by events, because it was planned and largely written after the collapse of...

The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War.
September 1, 1993... BY SLAVENKA DRAKULIC, New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1993, 146 pp. $19.95. After the horror of events in the former Yugoslavia conveyed nightly by television, it takes the artist to seize and shake our numbed consciousness and carry...

Twin Pillars to Desert Storm: America's Flavored Vision in the Middle East From Nixon to Bush.
September 1, 1993... BY HOWARD TEICHER AND GAYLE RADLEY TEICHER. New York: William Morrow, 1993, 418 pp. $23.00. Forget the misleading title--this is a book about policymaking toward the Middle East in the Reagan administration, with brief reflections on what...

Tradition et Revolution: L'enjeu de la Modernite en Algerie et dans L'Islam.
September 1, 1993... BY REDHA MALEK. Paris: Editions Sindbad, 1993, 219 pp. The author, currently Algeria's foreign minister and a member of the High Council of State, grapples with the question of how countries in the Islamic world can get their bearings. in...

The United States and the State of Israel.
September 1, 1993... BY DAVID SCHOENBAUM. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 404 pp. $39.95 (paper, $16.95). This is a broad overview of a much-discussed, much-written-about relationship. What Schoenbaum brings to the debate is an impatience with...

Peace with Security: Israel's Minimal Security Requirements in Negotiations with Syria.
September 1, 1993... BY ZE'EV SCHIFF. Washington: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1993, 107 pp. $11.95 (paper). Schiff has now done for the Golan Heights what he did for the West Bank and Gaza: spell out clearly and convincingly what Israel's...

Iran and the Cold War: The Azerbaijan Crisis of 1946.
September 1, 1993... BY LOUISE FAWCETT. New York: Cambridge University Pres, 1992, 227 pp. $54.95. Historians of the Cold War now readily acknowledge the importance of the Azerbaijan crisis in fixing U.S. and Soviet attitudes and stances. This able case study...

Le Sabre et le Turban: L'avenir du Maghreb.
September 1, 1993... BY REMY LEVEAU. Paris: Editions Francois Bourin, 193, 272 pp. One of France's most respected specialists on North Africa has produced a fine study that examines the roots of the current political malaise in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia....

After the Storm: The Changing Military Balance in the Middle East.
September 1, 1993... BY ANTHONY H. CORDESMAN. Boulder (CO): Westview Press, 1993, 811 pp. $65.00. Those who came to know Tony Cordesman as military analyst for ABC during Desert Storm will know what to expect from this monumental book: a sober, authoritative...

The Economics of Middle East Peace.
September 1, 1993... EDITED BY STANLEY FISCHER, DANI RODRICK AND ELIAS TUMA. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press, 1993, 370 pp. $42.50. For several years the Institute for Social and Economic Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government has been working with Arab...

Fragile Resistance: Social Transformation in Iran from 1500 to the Revolution.
September 1, 1993... BY JOHN FORAN. Boulder (CO): Westview Press, 1993, 452 pp. $44.95. This ambitious study still has the feel of the doctoral dissertation that it was once. The author is eager to link developmental theory with the historical case of Iran, and...

Jordan, the United States and the Middle East Peace Profess, 1974-1991.
September 1, 1993... BY MADIHA RASHID AL MADFAI. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 279 pp. $54.95. Many were surprised when King Hussein announced in 1988 that Jordan would no longer bear responsibility for negotiations concerning the West Bank. For...

The Many Faces of National Security in the Arab World.
September 1, 1993... EDITED BY BAHGAT KORANY, PAUL NOBLE AND REX BRYNEN. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993, 322 pp. 49-95 (paper, 19-95). Excellent essays by distinguished authors who bring together an interest in national security and the contemporary Arab...

The Gulf Crisis: Background and Consequences.
September 1, 1993... EDITED BY IBRAHIM IBRAHIM. Washington: Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 1992, 3S4 pp. The Persian Gulf crisis was such a dramatic event in the post-Cold War era that it was bound to be the subject of many...

The Politics of Change in the Middle East.
September 1, 1993... BY ROBERT B. SATLOFF. Boulder (CO): Westview Press, 1993, 237 pp. $49-00 (paper $14-95). A collection of introductory essays by well-known authors that addresses questions of regime change and stability, among other issues of governance....

Iran and the Arab World
September 1, 1993... EDITED BY HOOSHANG AMIRAHMADI AND NADER ENTESSAR. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993, 264 pp. $49.95. An oft-neglected topic is competently handled by a variety of authors. As Iran increasingly comes to be portrayed as a threat to many...

Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War.
September 1, 1993... BY ODD ARNE WESTAD. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993, 260 pp. $50.00. This volume is an impressive piece of historical scholarship on the origins of the Cold War in East Asia. Its primary importance stems from the interesting way...

The Man Who Stayed Behind.
September 1, 1993... BY SIDNEY RITTENBERG AND AMANDA BENNETT. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993, 476 pp. $25.00. This is the story of an American idealist who spent his youth organizing local miners as a member of the American Communist Party, landed in China...

If China Crosses the Taiwan Strait: The International Response.
September 1, 1993... BY PARRISS H. CHANG AND MARTIN L. LASATER. New York: University Press of America, 1993, 200 pp. $46.50 (paper, (18.50). Beijing has never ruled out the use of force against Taiwan. When the United States normalized relations with China in...

"China in Transformation." Spring 1993 issue of Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 122, no. 2.
September 1, 1993... Journal of the, American, Academy of Arts and Sciences. Vol. 122, No. 2. Cambridge (MA): American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1993, 232 pp. $7.95. This is an occasionally provocative, if uneven, collection of essays on a fascinating...

South Africa: The Struggle for a New Order.
September 1, 1993... BY MARINA OTTAWAY. Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1993, 250 pp. $34.95 (paper, $14.95). This book is a masterful summation and analysis of the negotiating process underway in South Africa since 1990, sorting through the welter of...

Ethnicity and Politics in South Africa.
September 1, 1993... BY GERHARD MARE. Atlantic Highlands (NJ): Zed Books, 1993, 125 pp. $17.50 (paper). Commentators who may readily recognize the politically engineered quality of ethnic strife elsewhere in the world still tend to reduce such politics in...

Individual Freedoms and State Security in the African Context: The Case of Zimbabwe.
September 1, 1993... BY JOHN HATCHARD. Athens (OH): Ohio University Press, 1993, 209 pp. $19.95 (paper). It will take more than the replacement of one-party regimes with multiparty regimes in Africa to ensure a transition toward democratic government. Another...