The Washington Quarterly articles from March 1996

The Washington Quarterly archives from March 1996

North Korea under the son. (Democratic People's Republic of Korea leader Kim Jong Il)
March 22, 1996... Thanks to contributions by a motley assortment of spies, left-wing ideologues and sympathizers, and disinformation specialists, the reclusive Kim Jong Il of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has long been a serious contender for...

China's military: real or paper tiger?
March 22, 1996... Few aspects of the People's Republic of China (PRC) as a rising power trouble officials in Washington and world capitals as much as the modernization of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). While American officials wrestle with Beijing's...

U.S. global policy: toward an agile strategy.
March 22, 1996... The end of the cold war poses immense challenges to U.S. global leadership. In this new strategic landscape, the simple, straightforward foreign and defense policies of the past 40 years no longer apply. The United States needs a new,...

Health and international security. (US policy on world health)
March 22, 1996... A fundamental national security obligation of governments is providing and assuring the safety and well-being of their citizens. To the extent authorities lapse in these duties, unmitigated health burdens will add to discontent, conflict, and...

Can NATO survive? (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
March 22, 1996... In the early postwar period, the North Atlantic Alliance was created with a strategic mission directed against the Soviet Union that remained powerful for more than 40 years. With the disappearance of that central organizing mission and of the...

Policy forum: transatlantic free trade. (commercial treaties)
March 22, 1996... Ernest H. Preeg Center for Strategic and International Studies Growing interest in a transatlantic free trade agreement (TAFTA) reflects the dynamic among regional free trade groupings that is evolving within the international trading system....

Vietnam in 1995: it was a very good year. (economic performance)
March 22, 1996... After seeing pictures of your big cars and many houses, America should be our model. - Madame Ha to Stanley Karnow, January 1995 According to Vietnamese astrologers, the year of the pig that began at Tet (on January 31 in 1995) was...

Is Nigeria a viable state?
March 22, 1996... Nigeria, home of roughly one hundred million people who constitute approximately 20 percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa, is failing. The country is failing not from a grave natural disaster or from unusually bad leadership or...

Race and Culture: A World View.
March 22, 1996... "CULTURE" is the newest fad sweeping the literature on international relations, security studies, and international economics. A throng of recent essays and books point to culture as the basic force impelling nation-states, other institutions,...

Who Prospers? How Cultural Values Shape Economic and Political Success.
March 22, 1996... "CULTURE" is the newest fad sweeping the literature on international relations, security studies, and international economics. A throng of recent essays and books point to culture as the basic force impelling nation-states, other institutions,...

Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity.
March 22, 1996... "CULTURE" is the newest fad sweeping the literature on international relations, security studies, and international economics. A throng of recent essays and books point to culture as the basic force impelling nation-states, other institutions,...

"The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs 72.
March 22, 1996... "CULTURE" is the newest fad sweeping the literature on international relations, security studies, and international economics. A throng of recent essays and books point to culture as the basic force impelling nation-states, other institutions,...