Foreign Affairs articles from September 2006

Foreign Affairs archives from September 2006

No Great Transformation.(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... To the Editor: In his description of the "globally integrated enterprise," IBM CEO Samuel Palmisano depicts a future of agile, borderless enterprises operating in a superfluid environment ("The Globally Integrated Enterprise," May/June...

Purple Haze.(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... To the Editor: Sparks are flying in the normally dull world of development economics. In his recent work The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, William Easterly castigated...

Nuclear Exchange: Does Washington Really Have (or Want) Nuclear Primacy?(Critical essay)
September 1, 2006... Just the Facts Peter C. W. Flory The essay by Keir Lieber and Daryl Press ("The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy, "March/April 2006) contains so many errors, on a topic of such gravity, that a Department of Defense response is required to...

Questions of Fairness.(Economic Justice in an Unfair World: Toward a Level Playing Field)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Economic Justice in an Unfair World: Toward a Level Playing Field By Ethan B. Kapstein : Princeton University Press,, 2006, 272 pp., $27.95 IN SEARCH OF A JUST INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER "The predatory attitude has become the...

The Dream Palace of the Empire: Is Iraq a "Noble Failure"?(The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq By Fouad Ajami : Free Press, 2006, 378 pp., $26.00 Fouad Ajami is inescapably part of the story of the American adventure in Iraq. In the run-up to the March...

Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?
September 1, 2006... THE MYTH OF THE OMNIPRESENT ENEMY For the past five years, Americans have been regularly regaled with dire predictions of another major al Qaeda attack in the United States. In 2003, a group of 200 senior government officials and business...

After Proliferation: What to Do If More States Go Nuclear.
September 1, 2006... Spurred by the progress of weapons programs in North Korea and Iran, nuclear proliferation is once again at the top of the U.S. national security agenda. Practically all of the discussion about the issue has centered on how to prevent...

The Next Secretary-General: How to Fill a Job With No Description.(United Nations)
September 1, 2006... World War II ended in Europe in May 1945 and in the Pacific three months later. At almost the same time -- the high point of Allied triumph and cooperation -- diplomats meeting in San Francisco produced the United Nations Charter. This...

God's Country?(religion in United States)
September 1, 2006... EVANGELICALS AND FOREIGN POLICY Religion has always been a major force in U.S. politics, policy, identity, and culture. Religion shapes the nation's character, helps form Americans' ideas about the world, and influences the ways Americans...

How to Keep the Bomb From Iran.(United States foreign policy)
September 1, 2006... PREVENTING THE UNTHINKABLE The ongoing crisis with Tehran is not the first time Washington has had to face a hostile government attempting to develop nuclear weapons. Nor is it likely to be the last. Yet the reasoning of U.S. officials now...

The Next War of the World.
September 1, 2006... ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF BUTCHERY In 1898, H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds, a novel that imagined the destruction of a great city and the extermination of its inhabitants by ruthless invaders. The invaders in Wells' story were, of...

Mexico's Disputed Election.
September 1, 2006... A WAKE-UP CALL Mexico's July 2 election was not only a contest to select a president and a new Congress. It was also a referendum on the future of the country, and voters recognized it as such. The national question essentially came down...

France and Its Muslims.(terrorism)
September 1, 2006... THE POLITICS OF ASSIMILATION Over the past few years, terrorist bombings of the public transport systems of Madrid and London have sparked fears that Europe may be breeding its own crop of indigenous jihadists. Less understandably, those...

Global NATO.(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
September 1, 2006... REACHING OUT With little fanfare -- and even less notice -- the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has gone global. Created to protect postwar Western Europe from the Soviet Union, the alliance is now seeking to bring stability to other...

The Real Online Terrorist Threat.
September 1, 2006... WORLD OF WARCRAFT The United States is gradually losing the online war against terrorists. Rather than aggressively pursuing its enemies, the U.S. government has adopted a largely defensive strategy, the centerpiece of which is an...

The Rise of Intelligence.
September 1, 2006... DOES INTELLIGENCE MATTER? People take it for granted that good intelligence wins wars. During most of Western history, however, warriors paid intelligence little heed, because it rarely helped them. Generals since Caesar have sought...

Setting the Record Straight.(Letter to the editor)
September 1, 2006... To the Editor: In his survey of U.S.-British relations, Lawrence Freedman writes, "The decision by French President Jacques Chirac to oppose war regardless of what [UN] inspectors found put [British Prime Minister Tony] Blair's whole...