Foreign Affairs articles from September 2005

Foreign Affairs archives from September 2005

China's Global Hunt for Energy.
September 1, 2005... A NEW FOREIGN POLICY An unprecedented need for resources is now driving China's foreign policy. A booming domestic economy, rapid urbanization, increased export processing, and the Chinese people's voracious appetite for cars are...

China's "Peaceful Rise" to Great-Power Status.
September 1, 2005... GETTING THE FACTS RIGHT China's rapid development has attracted worldwide attention in recent years. The implications of various aspects of China's rise, from its expanding influence and military muscle to its growing demand for energy...

Poll Positions.
September 1, 2005... SURVEYING THE LAND Americans are at least as polarized on issues of foreign affairs as they are on domestic politics. They seem to have left behind, at least for the time being, the unity over foreign policy that characterized the World...

China's Search for Stability With America.
September 1, 2005... AFTER 9/11 The United States is currently the only country with the capacity and the ambition to exercise global primacy, and it will remain so for a long time to come. This means that the United States is the country that can exert the...

Understanding China.
September 1, 2005... THE WAKING DRAGON China today is like a dragon that, waking up after centuries of slumber, suddenly realizes many nations have been trampling on its tail. With all that has happened to it over the past 200 years, China could be forgiven...

Can Democracy Stop Terrorism?
September 1, 2005... WHAT FREEDOM BRINGS The United States is engaged in what President George W. Bush has called a "generational challenge" to instill democracy in the Arab world. The Bush administration and its defenders contend that this push for Arab...

Development and Democracy.
September 1, 2005... RICHER BUT NOT FREER Ever since Deng Xiaoping opened up China's economy more than 25 years ago, inaugurating an era of blistering growth, many in the West have assumed that political reform would follow. Economic liberalization, it was...

How to Win in Iraq.
September 1, 2005... A FALTERING EFFORT Despite the Bush administration's repeated declarations of its commitment to success in Iraq, the results of current policy there are not encouraging. After two years, Washington has made little progress in defeating the...

Taming American Power.
September 1, 2005... THE GREAT DEBATE U.S. policymakers have spent the past decade debating how best to wield American power. For the rest of the world, the debate is over how best to deal with it. With so much power in the hands of one country -- a country...

Nepal at the Precipice.
September 1, 2005... ARMIES OF THE NIGHT In The Killing Terraces, a documentary by Nepali filmmaker Dhruba Basnet, there is an interview with a small boy who huddles over a fire in a dank mud hut, cooking a simple meal for his two younger siblings. At age 11,...

How to Rebuild Africa.
September 1, 2005... THE LORDS OF MISRULE This past March, a UN panel revealed that Liberian officials had signed a secret contract with an obscure European company, giving it a virtual monopoly on mining diamonds in the troubled country -- even though Liberia...

Which Broadband Nation?
September 1, 2005... The FCC's Real Wrongs PHILIP J. WEISER Like monetary policy and antitrust regulation, telecommunications policy is a major driver of economic growth rarely debated in public. During the last presidential campaign, for example, issues...

In China's Own Eyes.(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin By Robert Lawrence Kuhn : Crown, 2005, 709 pp., $35.00 There are several ways to read The Man Who Changed China, an officially sanctioned portrait of Jiang Zemin,...

The Power Brokers.(Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power)(Book Review)
September 1, 2005... Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power By David Rothkopf : PublicAffairs, 2005, 554 pp., $29.95 The birth of the National Security Council did not exactly make the...