Foreign Affairs articles from September 2004

Foreign Affairs archives from September 2004

*The Venezuelan Oil Crisis*.
September 1, 2004... Summary: Last year's crisis in Caracas caught Washington by surprise, causing oil prices to skyrocket and exposing flaws in the U.S. ability to forecast and cope with threats to its oil supply. Both government and industry must do better next...

*"Misunderestimating" Terrorism*.
September 1, 2004... Summary: Although terrorism is a top U.S. concern, the State Department's annual terrorism report was riddled with errors. If Washington wants to win the war, it needs to get its facts straight. / Alan B. Krueger is Bendheim Professor of...

*A Forward-Looking Partnership*.
September 1, 2004... Summary: The recent U.S. experiment in unilateralism has shown the limitations of "coalitions of the willing." Washington should reaffirm its commitment to the Atlantic alliance and act with others when it can, alone only when it must. /...

*What Went Wrong in Iraq*.
September 1, 2004... Summary: Although the early U.S. blunders in the occupation of Iraq are well known, their consequences are just now becoming clear. The Bush administration was never willing to commit the resources necessary to secure the country and did not...

*Why Democracies Excel*.
September 1, 2004... Summary: U.S. and international development agencies, believing that poor countries should develop economically before they become democratic, have not taken politics into account when disbursing aid. This is a mistake: poor democracies are...

*How to Counter WMD*.
September 1, 2004... Summary: The Bush administration has done little to contain the spread of weapons of mass destruction, even as undeterrable nonstate actors grow more intent on obtaining and using them. U.S. counterproliferation policy needs an overhaul. Its...

*Turkey's Dreams of Accession*.
September 1, 2004... Summary: The hope of joining the EU has driven major reforms in Turkey, including economic liberalization, human rights protection, and greater civilian oversight of the military. But these reforms have fueled suspicions among Islamists and...

*Indonesia's Quiet Revolution*.
September 1, 2004... Summary: Beyond headlines dominated by terrorist cells and separatist insurgencies, the world's largest majority-Muslim country has undergone a profound transformation in recent years. Reformers have quietly but brilliantly overhauled the...

Breakdown in the Andes.
September 1, 2004... Summary: The southern Andes, long known for social volatility and economic disarray, is on the verge of chaos. This need not be cause for fatalism, however. By reengaging with the region, Washington could help turn the political crises plaguing...

*The Receding Horizon: The Endless Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace *.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... /The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace/. Dennis Ross. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004, 800 pp.$35.00 In 1949, the legendary diplomat Ralph Bunche established what would become a gold standard for...

*The Miracles of Globalization*.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... /Why Globalization Works/. Martin Wolf. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004, 398 pp.$30.00 By the early 1980s, a number of distinguished economists had amassed compelling evidence that outward-oriented trade policies were far more...

*Demography Is Not Destiny*.(population trends and implications)
September 1, 2004... / MICHAEL S. TEITELBAUM is Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Jay Winter is Professor of History at Yale University. They are the authors of The Fear of Population Decline./ A Pretext to Panic Michael S. Teitelbaum and...

*Credal Passions*.(views on American national identity)
September 1, 2004... / SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON is Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University and Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies./ GETTING ME WRONG Samuel P. Huntington In evaluating a novel, a...

*Hit or Miss*.(notes on modern warfare)
September 1, 2004... / MERRILL A. MCPEAK was U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff in 1990-94. / A Neater Way to Win Merrill A. McPeak Robert Pape ("The True Worth of Air Power," March/April 2004) seems to think that all modern war is of a kind, featuring...

Recent Books on International Relations.(Book Review)
September 1, 2004... Political and Legal G. John Ikenberry State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century. by Francis Fukuyama. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004, 160 pp. $21.00. Weak and failed states have always been a feature...

Letters to the Editor.(Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 2004... Graham Allison on preventing nuclear terrorism; and John Coatsworth et al. on Kenneth Maxwell apocalypse never To the Editor: In "The Four Faces of Nuclear Terror" (May/June 2004), William C. Potter, Charles D. Ferguson, and...