The Washington Quarterly articles

Recent articles from The Washington Quarterly

Memory without History: Who Owns Guatemala's Past?
March 22, 2001... In the light and not in the light, in the darkness and not in the darkness,... motionless and in movement --Miguel Angel Asturias, Men of Maize [1] On the edge of the Plaza Mayor, Guatemala City's vast central square, a small block of stone supports a Plexiglas case, within...

The Beginning of History: Remembering and Forgetting as Strategic Issues.
March 22, 2001... Those who assume time heals all wounds are wrong. Accelerated by the collision of information technology with concerns of the past, issues of "remembering and forgetting" are creating history. They are shaping the strategic alignments of the future. Remembering and forgetting events...

Romania: Better Late Than Never.(analysis of current political situation in Romania)
March 22, 2001... In their recent presidential election, Romanian voters had to choose between disaster and catastrophe, they thought, between an ultranationalist fanatic and an old communist. Voters held their noses and gave the latter two-thirds of their ballots. Even a reluctant two-thirds is still a...

Unfinished Passage: India, Indian Americans, and the U.S. Congress.(India's political relationship with the United States)
March 22, 2001... Only half-jokingly, Representative Gary L. Ackerman (D-N.Y.), former cochair of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian Americans, claims that until recently most members of the U.S. Congress believed that "IndiaPakistan" was a single word. This assertion of course exaggerates the...

Is the Anglo-American Relationship Still Special?
March 22, 2001... "This is an Anglo-Saxon Protestant conspiracy. So much for Britain's commitment to European solidarity; its real union is with America." [1] That was the complaint of Jean-Claude Martinez, a French member of the European Parliament, during a debate on electronic surveillance and commercial...