Foreign Affairs articles from September 2007

Foreign Affairs archives from September 2007

Africa - African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors.(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors. By Todd J. Moss. Lynne Rienner, 2007, 274 pp. $55.00 (paper, $22.50). Africa presents some of the greatest challenges of economic development in the contemporary world....

Other People's Money.(currency crisis)
September 1, 2007... To the Editor: Benn Steil ("The End of National Currency," May/June 2007) argues that many poor or small countries should replace their national currencies with dollars or euros, thereby filling a gaping hole left open by an economics...

Food for Fuel? Debating the Tradeoffs of Corn-Based Ethanol.
September 1, 2007... MYTH VERSUS REALITY Tom Daschle The article "How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor," by C. Ford Runge and Benjamin Senauer (May/June 2007), recycles the "food versus fuel" mythology that has been rebutted time and again. Despite the...

The Great Leap Backward? The Costs of China's Environmental Crisis.
September 1, 2007... Author Bio: Elizabeth C. Economy is C. V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenges to China's Future. China's environmental...

Who Lost Iraq? Lessons From the Debacle.
September 1, 2007... Author Bio: James Dobbins directs the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation and served as Assistant Secretary of State under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He was the Clinton administration's...

The Long Road to Pyongyang - A Case Study in Policymaking Without Direction.
September 1, 2007... Author Bio: Michael J. Mazarr is Professor of National Security Strategy at the U.S. National War College. The views expressed here are his own. At first glance, the outcome of the North Korean nuclear standoff might appear to be a...

When Congress Stops Wars - Partisan Politics and Presidential Power.(George W. Bush)
September 1, 2007... Author Bio: William G. Howell and Jon C. Pevehouse are Associate Professors at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and the authors of While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers. For...

Nuclear Insecurity - Correcting Washington's Dangerous Posture.
September 1, 2007... Author Bio: Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky is a particle physicist and Director Emeritus of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He worked on the Manhattan Project from 1943 to 1945 and served as a Science Policy Adviser to Presidents Dwight...

Democracy Without America - The Spontaneous Spread of Freedom.
September 1, 2007... Author Bio: Michael Mandelbaum is Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. This essay is adapted from his new book, Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the...

Smart Samaritans - Is There a Third Way in the Development Debate?(The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Author Bio: Michael A. Clemens is a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Development and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It. By...

A Raw Deal - Reconsidering the Great Depression.(The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Author Bio: Charles W. Calomiris is Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. By Amity Shlaes. HarperCollins,...