Foreign Affairs articles from September 2001

Foreign Affairs archives from September 2001

Doing Good While Doing Well: The Unheralded Success of American Enterprise Funds.
September 1, 2001... International economic assistance has been an important component of U.S. foreign policy for nearly a century, from the Hoover Relief Program and the Marshall Plan after the two world wars to the creation of the U.S. Agency for International...

Life and Death in the Congo.(Review)
September 1, 2001... In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo. by Michela Wrong. New York: HarperCollins, 2001, 336 pp. $26.00. In May 1997, as rebel forces approached Kinshasa -- the capital city of the vast African...

The World Bank's Mission Creep.
September 1, 2001... LESS IS MORE The World Bank and the global community have learned a lot about development in the past 50 years. The bank is justly proud of its commitment to being a knowledge-based institution and has consistently responded to development...

Behind India's Bomb: The Politics and Strategy of Nuclear Deterrence.(Review)
September 1, 2001... REVIEW ESSAY India's Emerging Nuclear Posture: Between Recessed Deterrent and Ready Arsenal. By Ashley J. Tellis. Santa Monica: rand Corporation, 2001, 653 pp. $40.00. The Indian nuclear tests of May 11 and 13, 1998, shook an...

Caspian Energy at the Crossroads.
September 1, 2001... FUEL FOR THOUGHT In response to recent oil and gas price hikes, recurring blackouts in California, and other symptoms of a U.S. energy "crisis," both the Bush administration and the Senate have made national energy security a top priority....

The Corporate Ethics Crusade.
September 1, 2001... THE BEST INTENTIONS Are multinational enterprises getting religion? So it seems. Around the world, corporate codes of conduct on human rights, labor standards, and environmental performance are proliferating. These codes reflect the...

Russia's Unformed Foreign Policy.
September 1, 2001... TEN YEARS AFTER Nothing distinguishes contemporary Russian foreign policy more than the uncertainties surrounding it. Alone among great powers, Russia faces fundamental questions of identity -- if anything, more intense today than they...

With a Friend Like Fox.(Mexican President Vicente Fox )
September 1, 2001... AN END TO ISOLATION This past April, Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) -- long Mexico's fiercest critic and a man not known for his internationalist credentials -- took an unusual trip. Helms went to Mexico City with colleagues in tow, where he...

RECENT BOOKS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.(Review)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2001... THE UNITED STATES Philip Zelikow Road Map for National Security: Imperative for Change. by the United States Commission On National Security/21st century. http://www.nssg.gov/ Chartered by Congress as the most comprehensive...

The Case for Universal Jurisdiction.(war crimes)
September 1, 2001... Behind much of the savagery of modern history lies impunity. Tyrants commit atrocities, including genocide, when they calculate they can get away with them. Too often, dictators use violence and intimidation to shut down any prospect of...

Japan, the Reluctant Reformer.(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2001... TOO MUCH OF A BAD THING At the end of last year, Japan's citizens, having struggled for years with a bitter recession, were hit with still more bad news: another arbiter of international opinion had forecast their country's imminent...

Toward Universal Education: Making a Promise, and Keeping It.
September 1, 2001... At the April 2000 World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal, 180 countries including the United States committed themselves to a simple yet profound goal: providing quality education for all the world's children by 2015. Part of the aim of the...

Getting Debt Relief Right.
September 1, 2001... BLESSED ARE THE POOR? Today 41 of the world's poorest countries are bankrupt. These nations, identified by the World Bank as "heavily indebted poor countries" (HIPCS), owe some $170 billion to foreign creditors, while half of their 600...

The Rise of the Brand State: The Postmodern Politics of Image and Reputation.
September 1, 2001... Look at the covers of the brochures in any travel agency and you will see the various ways in which countries present themselves on the world's mental map. Singapore has a smiling, beautiful face offering us tasty appetizers on an airplane,...