Foreign Affairs articles from September 2002

Foreign Affairs archives from September 2002

Advancing Peace in the Middle East.
September 1, 2002... The Economic Path Out of Conflict The Arab-Israeli conflict has defied peaceful accommodation, let alone resolution, for more than 50 years. Wars have been fought, people displaced, land occupied, law and order disrupted, economies...

Can the EU Hack the Balkans?
September 1, 2002... A Proving Ground for Brussels The sight of Slobodan Milosevic being tried for war crimes in the Hague may suggest that we have reached the end of history, Balkans-style. The prospects of large-scale conflict in the region are low;...

Poles and Jews.
September 1, 2002... COMING TO TERMS When Jan Gross' Neighbors first appeared in Poland two years ago, with its grisly account of the July 10, 1941, slaughter of 1,600 Jews in the small northeastern town of Jedwabne, it sank like a stone in a sea of...

The Death of a Treaty.
September 1, 2002... ADVICE AND CONSENT On October 13, 1999, the U.S. Senate conspicuously failed to give its consent to ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The CTBT was the Clinton administration's major arms control initiative at the time, and...

Calling the Shots.(book on military leadership)
September 1, 2002... Should Politicians or Generals Run Our Wars? SUPREME COMMAND: SOLDIERS, STATESMEN, AND LEADERSHIP IN WARTIME. by eliot a. cohen. New York: Free Press, 2002, 288 pp. $25.00. What qualities should we look for in our political leaders...

Japan's Dual Hedge.(military and economic alliances)
September 1, 2002... NOT ANOTHER BRITAIN Last fall, just eight days after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., Japan's prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, announced that his country would provide military support to the United States for the...

Bush and the world.(Pres George W. Bush)
September 1, 2002... THE NEED FOR A NEW WILSONIANISM In its emotional impact, September 11, 2001, may have been the most horrifying single day in American history. As bloody as some of the great battles and disasters of the past have been, the news about them...

America's imperial ambition.
September 1, 2002... THE LURES OF PREEMPTION In the shadows of the Bush administration's war on terrorism, sweeping new ideas are circulating about U.S. grand strategy and the restructuring of today's unipolar world. They call for American unilateral and...

China's Governance Crisis.
September 1, 2002... MORE THAN MUSICAL CHAIRS Predicting the outcome of China's upcoming leadership succession has become a popular parlor game in certain Washington circles. The curiosity aroused by the transition is understandable, given the huge stakes...

Public Diplomacy and the War on Terrorism.
September 1, 2002... The following article is adapted from the chairman's preliminary summary of the report of the Independent Task Force on Public Diplomacy sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations. Members of the task force, chaired by Peter G. Peterson, are...

Recent Books.
September 1, 2002... Recent Books on International Relations AFRICA GAIL M. GERHART Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe. by MARTIN MEREDITH. New York: PublicAffairs, 2002, 243 pp. $26.00. This unvarnished account of...

From North-South to South-South.
September 1, 2002... The True Face of Global Competition As protesters battled the police in the streets of Seattle in 1999, calling on the World Trade Organization to include environmental and labor issues in its trade negotiations, government representatives...

The Future of Conservation.
September 1, 2002... DON'T BLINK If you want to see wild nature, your options are declining. Within a few decades, orangutans, Asian elephants, Sumatran tigers, Chilean flamingos, Amur leopards, and many other well-known species will likely disappear from the...

What Kind of War for Colombia?
September 1, 2002... HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF? In 1958, the United States sent a CIA team to assess conditions in Colombia, where, over ten years, a low-grade civil war known as La Violencia had brought more than 200,000 deaths. The CIA's agents concluded that...