Foreign Affairs articles from September 1994

Foreign Affairs archives from September 1994

Inflation overkill: moving the Fed into a global age. (Federal Reserve Board)
September 1, 1994... In its zeal to fight inflation, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates several times this year. America's central bankers have focused on the usual set of statistics--growth rate, unemployment, industrial capacity. So have most market...

The land mine crisis: a humanitarian disaster.
September 1, 1994... Like a deadly disease long absent and assumed conquered, the land mine, that scourge of the battlefield of World War I, has reemerged on a scale unimagined and with hideous, unanticipated effects. There is today a global land mine crisis. And...

The U.N. and the use of force: leave the Secretary General out of it. (United Nations)
September 1, 1994... Neither the post-cold War climate nor civil wars can rightfully be blamed for the failures that have beset the United Nations since 1991. External factors only partially explain the dramatic reversal of fortune in U.N. prestige. One must look...

Save public diplomacy: broadcasting America's message matters.
September 1, 1994... Public diplomacy has never been the favorite child of U.S. foreign policy. More often it is considered a poor relation, faintly disreputable, with no particular merits in the past and of doubtful relevance in the present, not to be discarded...

The recovery of internationalism. (United States foreign policy)
September 1, 1994... STEMMING THE ISOLATIONIST IMPULSE That American foreign policy stands in disarray and confusion is one of the few propositions on which a consensus exists in the country today. The flips and flops of policy toward Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti,...

Why the U.N. fails. (United Nations)
September 1, 1994... IT CANNOT MEDIATE ONLY A FEW YEARS ago it was widely expected that the end of the Cold War would lead to the rebirth of the United Nations. Between 1987 and 1991, the United Nations mediated a series of agreements that helped end...

Russia's success story.
September 1, 1994... CHERNOMYRDIN PULLS IT OFF The Russia emerging today is very different from what pessimists have prophesied. It is not falling apart but coming together. The new political institutions function. Strikes are rare, and no serious social...

The Baltic litmus test.
September 1, 1994... REVEALING RUSSIA'S TRUE COLORS Most of the attention given to European security issues today is focused on the Balkans. But the stability concerns that the West must address in the Baltic Sea area are no less important. For half a...

Arming genocide in Rwanda.
September 1, 1994... THE HIGH COST OF SMALL ARMS TRANSFERS Rwanda is only the latest example of what can happen when small arms and light weapons are sold to a country plagued by ethnic, religious, or nationalist strife. In today's wars such weapons are...

The World Bank: is 50 years enough?
September 1, 1994... A CHILD OF WAR, A PARENT OF PROSPERITY Of great service in its first 50 years, the World Bank Group will render even greater benefits in its next 50 years if, unlike most institutions, it can adjust to the vast changes that have occurred...

Germany's chained economy.
September 1, 1994... THE SOCIAL CONTRACT FRAYS The fanciful novel reads, "GUANGZHOU--January 4, 2022. The first world's fair in the supermodern convention center of the south Chinese metropolis has just opened." At the center of the exhibition, perpetual...

Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System.
September 1, 1994... BY RICHARD J. SAMUELS. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994, 552 pp. $35.00. In a world fraught with geopolitical uncertainty, Japan is clumsily searching for a new political order. At the same time, it is trying to extract itself from a...

"Rich Nation, Strong Army": National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan.
September 1, 1994... BY JAMES FALLOWS. New York: Pantheon, 1994, S44 pp. $25.00. In a world fraught with geopolitical uncertainty, Japan is clumsily searching for a new political order. At the same time, it is trying to extract itself from a deep structural...

Japan in Peace and War.
September 1, 1994... BY JOHN W. DOWER. New York: New Press, 1994, 288 Pp. $25.00. In a world fraught with geopolitical uncertainty, Japan is clumsily searching for a new political order. At the same time, it is trying to extract itself from a deep structural...

China Wakes.
September 1, 1994... BY NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF AND SHERYL WUDUNN. New York: Times Books, 1994, 408 pp. $25.00. Recently, on the Bund in Shanghai, I gazed at a bronze statue of Mao Zedong's foreign minister, Chen Yi, and thought of a courageous remark he uttered...

The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY IAN BURUMA. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1994, 330 pp. $25.00. This absorbing and important book analyzes the ways that Germany and Japan have dealt with the question of guilt for their misdeeds in World War 11. The bottom line is...

Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... By Garry Wills. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994, 336 pp. $23.00. Sixteen vignettes of leaders from F.D.R., Ross Perot, and Martin Luther King, Jr., to King David and Socrates are contrasted with even briefer portraits of 16 "anti-types,"...

Thieves' World: The Threat of the New Global Network of Organized Crime.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY CLAIRE STERLING. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994, 304 pp. $23.00. The author has followed her earlier books on terrorist networks and the Mafia with a clear and accessible account of the growth of ostensibly new international alliances...

The Cold War: A History.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY MARTIN WALKER. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994, 392 pp. $30.00. This book, written by the The Guardian's U. S. bureau chief and veteran Moscow-watcher, is a solid and straightforward account of the Cold War, spanning from 1945 up...

Tribes: How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY JOEL KOTKIN. New York: Random House, 1993, 343 pp. $12.00 (paper). Through case studies of the Jews, Chinese, Japanese, Indians, "Anglo-Americans," and others, the author explores the ways that kinship, racial, and ethnic ties have...

Genocide: Conceptual and Historical Dimensions.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY GEORGE J. ANDREOPOULOS. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, 26s pp. $34.95. This book brings together scholarly experts on this grim subject, one that has been made particularly timely by events in Bosnia and...

Problems and Process: International Law and How We Use It.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY ROSALYN HIGGINS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 274 pp. $35.00. This is a learned and serious introduction to international law by a recognized scholar in the field. While it deals with U.N. conflict resolution and human...

The Return of the Political.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY CHANTAL MOUFFE. New York: Verso, 1993, 156 pp. $18.95 (paper). This philosophical work is a good illustration of the quandary that serious thinkers on the left have in coming to terms with the end of communism. The author admits that...

A Future for Socialism.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY JOHN E. ROEMER. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994, 178 pp. $29.95 (paper, $16.9s). This book, written by an economist, maps out a set of property relationships that will, according to the author, achieve the substantive...

The New Ideology of Imperialism.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY FRANK FUREDI. Boulder: Pluto Press, 1994, 140 pp. $51.50 (paper, $17.00). Despite its title, the bulk of this book is an impassioned attack on the old imperialism, particularly during the last decades of the British empire. The author...

The War Puzzle.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY JOHN VASQUEZ. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 378 pp. $54.95 (paper, $17.95). This book purports to advance our theoretical understanding of the causes of war by drawing on a broader range of empirical evidence than previous...

Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse.
September 1, 1994... BY RONALD BAILEY. New York: St. Martin's Press/Washington: Cato Institute, 1993, 228 pp. $19.95. This short, lively book examines eight cases where scientists, pseudoscientists, promoters, and journalists have successfully alarmed the...

Economic Transformation: The Mexican Way.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY PEDRO ASPE. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1993, 280 pp. $22.50. An elaboration of the Robbins Lectures at the London School of Economics, this book provides an admirable overview of recent Mexican economic policy by one of its major...

Freer Trade, Protected Environment: Balancing Trade Liberalization and Environmental Interests.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY C. FORD RUNGE AND OTHERS. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1994, 146 pp. $17.95 (paper). One of the hot issues in post-Uruguay Round international trade policy, already an early agenda item for the new World Trade...

Greening the GATT: Trade, Environment, and the Future.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY DANIEL C. ESTY. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1994,319 pp. $19.95 (paper). One of the hot issues in post-Uruguay Round international trade policy, already an early agenda item for the new World Trade Organization,...

Perpetuating Poverty: The World Bank, the IMF, and the Developing World.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY DOUG BANDOW AND IAN VASQUEZ Washington: The Cato Institute, 1994,362 pp. $25.95 (paper, $15.95). This volume contains 16 chapters by nearly as many authors, devoted to demonstrating how misguided, and often positively harmful,...

Economic Transformation in Russia.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY ANDERS ASLUND. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 190 pp. $39.95. This book offers an authoritative interim report on the progress of and prospects for economic reform in Russia as of late 1993, after the dissolution of the 1990...

New Challenges for Defense Planning: Rethinking How Much Is Enough.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY PAUL K. DAVIS. Santa Monica: RAND, 1994, 769 pp. $35.00 paper, #20.00). How Much is Enough? was the title of a belligerently self-congratulatory memoir by two top systems analysts in Robert McNamara's Pentagon. They, like so many...

Friendly Spies: How America's Allies Are Using Economic Espionage to Steal Our Secrets.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY PETER SCHWEIZER. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1993, 342 pp. $22.00. Economic espionage? It is impossible not to fall back on a version of that hackneyed line from the film Casablanca--"I am shocked, shocked to find that there is...

Encyclopedia of the American Military: Studies of the History, Traditions, Policies, Institutions, and Roles of the Armed Forces in War and Peace, vols 1-3.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY JOHN E. JESSUP AND LOUISE B. KETZ. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994, 2,255 Pp. $320.00. This substantial and useful reference work falls into six parts--a thematic account of war and American history, a more analytic...

Shadows and Substance: The Chemical Weapons Convention.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY BENOIT MOREL AND KYLE OLSON. Boulder: Wesrview, 1993, 420 pp. $59.95. This, the first in a set of edited volumes from the Ridgeway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, makes a contribution to...

The Laws of War: A Comprehensive Collection of Primary Documents on International Laws Governing Armed Conflict.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY W. MICHAEL REISMAN AND CHRIS T. ANTONIOU. New York: Vintage, 1994, 448 pages. $13.00. When military officers began planning the Gulf War, they had uniformed lawyers with them to provide advice and impose caution from the...

A League of Airmen: U.S. Airpower in the Gulf War.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY JAMES A. WINNEFELD, PRESTON NIBLACK AND DANA J. JOHNSON. Santa Monica: RAND, 1994, 335 pp. $30-00 (paper, $15.00). Winnefeld, a retired naval aviator, led a RAND team studying the Gulf War for the Air Force. The result leans heavily on...

Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY ANNE WELLS BRANSCOMB. New York: BasicBooks, 1994, 241 pp. $25.00. A crisp and straightforward analysis by a leading communications and computer lawyer, this book does not bear directly, one might think, on international relations....

Downsizing Defense.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY ETHAN KAPSTEIN. Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 1993, 236 pp. $34.95. Kapstein, a political economist now at the OECD, has edited a solid set of essays on various aspects of the shrinkage of defense spending in the United...

Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY THOMAS POWERS. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1993, 6o8 pp. $16.95 (paper). Powers, an experienced journalist and writer, makes the case that Nobel laureate Werner Helsenberg acted to slow down and ultimately block German development...

The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War.
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY WILLIAM SON MURRAY, MACGREGOR KNOX AND ALVIN BERNSTEIN. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 645 pp. $34.9S. One of the most famous modern books on strategy, The Makers of Modern Strategy, was based on the assumption that...

The Diffusion of Advanced Weaponry: Technologies, Regional Implications, and Responses.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY W. THOMAS WANDER, ERIC H. ARNETT, AND PAUL BRACKEN. Washington: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1994, 391 pp. $20.00 (paper). This is a mixed bag of essays that grew out of three workshops sponsored by the...

The Reagan Doctrine: Sources of American Conduct in the Cold War's Last Chapter.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY MARK P. LAGON. Westport: Praeger Publishers, 1994, 187 pp. $49.95. Mark Lagon, research associate at the American Enterprise Institute (a position he got, he tells us, thanks to Jeane Kirkpatrick), is not interested in how smart,...

The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade: American Foreign Relations During the 1960s.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY DIANE B. KUNZ. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994,372 pp. $50.00 (paper, $16.so). This outstanding collection of essays on American foreign policy during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations is somewhat marred by a...

Less Than Meets the Eye: Foreign Policy Making and the Myth of the Assertive Congress.
September 1, 1994... BY BARBARA HINCKLEY. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994, 2S2 pp. 34-95 (paper, $13.95). Purdue University political science professor Barbara Hinckley, winner of the American Political Science Association's prize for the best book...

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and the Ideological History of American Liberalism.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY STEPHEN P. DEPOE. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994, 192 pp. $29.95. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., is the preeminent American academic historian, despite not having a Ph.D. He made it to the top through the weight of his many...

America's Right Turn: From Nixon to Bush.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY WILLIAM C. BERMAN. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, 192 pp. $38.95 (paper, $12.95). This is an analysis of voting patterns in the United States from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s. It links the swings in voting...

Beyond the Beltway: Engaging the Public in U.S. Foreign Policy.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY DANIEL YANKELOVICH AND I. M. DESTLER. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994, 315 pp. $28.00. Where do we go from here? This is the question taken up in this compilation of essays. With the end of the Cold War, the public has...

War and Economy in the Third Reich.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY R. J. OVERY. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 390 pp. $55.00. A collection of essays--written over the last 20 years and appearing under a misleading title--dealing with diverse aspects of Germany's recovery and wartime economic...

Hitler and the Jews: The Genesis of the Holocaust.
September 1, 1994... BY PHILIPPE BURRIN. New York: Edward Arnold, 1994, 177 pp. $59-95 (paper, $16.95). Burrin, a Swiss historian, gives a highly intelligent interpretation of the available evidence and opinion concerning how and when the decision to...

Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp.
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY YISRAEL GUTMAN AND MICHAEL BERENBAUM. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994, 528 pp. $39.95. Burrin, a Swiss historian, gives a highly intelligent interpretation of the available evidence and opinion concerning how and when...

Against All Hope: Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps, 1938-1945.
September 1, 1994... BY HERMANN LANGBEIN. New York: Paragon House, 1994, 502 pp. $29.95. Burrin, a Swiss historian, gives a highly intelligent interpretation of the available evidence and opinion concerning how and when the decision to exterminate the Jews was...

Modern European Socialism.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY LAWRENCE WILDE. Brookfield: Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1994, 121 pp. $59.95. This is a broad, brief survey of European socialism in the European Community post-1945 era, including accounts of Soviet communism, regarded by many as a...

American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George D. Kennan, and Dean Acheson.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY JOHN LAMBERTON HARPER. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 362 pp. $27.95. The author examines the views of three very different men in different positions at different timer--hence one has essentially three disparate essays,...

A Dance Between the Flames: Berlin Between the Wars.
September 1, 1994... BY ANTON GILL. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1993, 304 pp. $23.00. Berlin of the 1920s and the audience of today deserve better than this rewrite of German sources, a catalogue, anecdotal and racy, of some of the greatest figures and artistic...

France in the New Europe: Changing yet Steadfast.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY RONALD TIERSKY. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1994, 283 pp. $21.00 (paper). Tiersky, an American political scientist, has written a succinct, forthright analysis of French political life--with due attention to the peculiarities...

Through French Windows: An Introduction to France in the Nineties.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY JAMES CORBETT. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994, 415 pp. $47.50 (paper, $19.95). Tiersky, an American political scientist, has written a succinct, forthright analysis of French political life--with due attention to the...

The Soviet-Cuban Alliance, 1959-1991.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY YURI PAVLOV. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1994, 272 pages. $18.95 (paper). A fascinating insider's view of the vicissi-tudes of the Soviet relationship with Cuba by a former Soviet foreign service officer. Pavlov held several...

The Constitution of Tyranny: Regimes of Exception in Spanish America.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY BRIAN LOVEMAN. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993, 488 pp. $49.95. Brian Loveman, a professor of political science at San Diego State University, has produced an unusually interesting and important history of "regimes of...

Sexual Politics in Cuba: Machismo, Homosexuality, and AIDS.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY MARVIN LEINER. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994, 184 pp. $47.50. An exhaustively documented and well constructed study that examines the Castro regime's politics toward sexual minorities and Havana's reaction to the AIDS crisis. Cuba has...

America's First Cuisines.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY SOPHIE D. COE. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994, 288 pp. $35.00 (paper, $14.95). A pioneering book written, the author says, to "celebrate the contribution made by the original inhabitants of the New World . . . to the food of...

The Struggle for Russia.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY BORIS Yeltsin. New York: Times Books, 1994, 316 pp. $25.00. Yeltsin gives us a surprisingly informative and revealing look into his world, from the dramatic, failed coup d'etat of August 1991 to the considerably more violent...

Bosnia: A Short History.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY NOEL MALCOLM. London: Macmillan, 1994, 340 pp. $26.95. "The years 1992 and 1993," Malcolm begins his book, "will be remembered as the years in which a European country was destroyed." Those responsible, he makes plain, are primarily the...

The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism?(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY AHMED RASHID. Atlantic Highlands: Zed Books, 1994, 178 pp. $59.95 (paper, $5.00). In the widening stream of books and essays on post-Soviet Central Asia, this is the closest thing to a primer. After a brief summary of the region's...

Ethnic Nationalism: The Tragic Death of Yugoslavia.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY BOGDAN DENITCH. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994, 229 pp. $44.95 (paper, $17.95). There is a special anguish and anger in this book: Denitch was born Serbian, grew up in the United States, and made his university career...

Behind the Front Lines of Civil War: Political Parties and Social Movements in Russia, 1918-1922.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY VLADIMIR N. BROVKIN. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 455 pp. $55.00. Lenin and the Bolsheviks, having successfully executed their coup d'etat in November 1917, did not simply settle into power and begin the recasting of...

Forever Enemies? American Policy and The Islamic Republic of Iran.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY GEOFFREY KEMP. Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1994, 144 pp. $9.95 (paper). These two policy-oriented essays are welcome additions to the discussion of how to deal with Iran. Kemp does not argue for a fundamental...

Iran's National Security Policy: Capabilities, Intentions and Impact.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY SHAHRAM CHUBIN. Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1994, 106 pp. $10-95 (paper). These two policy-oriented essays are welcome additions to the discussion of how to deal with Iran. Kemp does not argue for a...

Islams and Modernites.
September 1, 1994... BY AZIZ AL-AZMEH. New York: Verso, 1993, 157 pp. $59.95 (paper, $17.95). This is a series of erudite, sometimes opaque, but always highly original essays on Islam and politics. The author aligns himself with an "anti-essentialist" stance,...

A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY MARK TESSLER. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994, 906 pp. $57.50 (paper, $27.50). The author of this encyclopedic study strives for "objectivity without detachment." To a very substantial degree, he succeeds....

Securing Peace in the Middle East: The Project on Economic Transition.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY STANLEY FISCHER AND OTHERS. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1994, 166 pp. $20.00. As Israeli and PLO negotiators were inching toward agreement in Norway last year, another group of Israeli and Palestinian academics,...

A Fire in Zion: The Israeli-Palestinian Search for Peace.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY MARK PERRY. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1994, 366 pp. $25.00. A talented journalist has written a fast-paced, engaging account of the events leading to the Israeli-PLO breakthrough of last year. Perry does not provide...

Democracy Without Democrats? The Renewal of Politics in the Muslim World.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY GHASSAN SALAME. London: I. B. Tauris, 1994, 340 pp. $59.50. If you are tempted to accept the "Arab exceptionalism" point of view in the debate over democracy, or subscribe to the notion that Islam is a threat to Western...

War and Peace in the Middle East: A Critique of American Policy.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY AVI SHLAIM. New York: Whittle Books, 1994, 147 pp. $17.95. Neoconservatives and partisans of Israel are unlikely to find much common ground with the author of this critical, sometimes polemical book about American policy in the...

The Politics of Social Transformation in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... EDITED BY MYRON WEINER AND ALI BANUAZIZI. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1994, 488 pp. $45.00 (paper, $18.95). Each of these three Muslim countries has undergone profound changes in recent years. As the editors point...

China in the World Economy.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY NICHOLAS R. LARDY. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1994, 156 pp. $16.95 (paper). This dense, information-packed monograph can be rewardingly read on several levels. First, it explodes a number of myths about...

An Emerging China in a World of Interdependence: A Report to the Trilateral Commission.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY YOICHI FUNABASHI, MICHEL OKSENBERG, AND HEINRICH WEISS. New York: The Trilateral Commission, 1994, 84 pp. $9.00 (paper). There is no greater challenge to the Western powers in the post-cold War era than to develop a...

China's Minorities: Integration and Modernization in the Twentieth Century.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY COLIN MACKERRAS. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, 355 pp. $79.00. A China specialist from Australia has written a scholarly and readable account of the minority nationalities in China, including Tibetans, Uygurs, Mongolians,...

China Since 1978: Reform, Modernization and 'Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.'(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY COLIN MACKERRAS, PRADEEP TANEJA, AND GRAHAM YOUNG. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994, 274 pp. $49.95 (paper, $18.95). This readable and balanced account of China since 1978 is designed not as an academic monograph but as a...

Uncertain Friendships: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States, 1945-1992.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY NANCY BERNKOPF TUCKER. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1994,337 pp. $29.95 (paper, $17.95). This book has been properly hailed as the most balanced, detailed, and comprehensive history of U. S. relations with Taiwan and Hong Kong...

The Dynamics of Korean Economic Development.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1994, 216 pp. $25.00 (paper). A professional economist who has served as a deputy prime minister and as governor of the Bank of Korea offers a critical appraisal of South Korea's...

The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY ROBERT J. MCMAHON. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, 431 pp. $30.00. The author, an American historian who has combed the archives, argues that the U.S. alliance with Pakistan in 1945 was a monumental strategic blunder...

From Dominoes to Dynamos: The Transformation of Southeast Asia.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1994... BY JOHN BRESNAN. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1994, 115 pp. $17.95. Bresnan's volume, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, is the most thoughtful, comprehensive, and insightful recommendation yet on...