The Washington Quarterly articles from March 2001

The Washington Quarterly archives from March 2001

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Principles for a National Security Consensus.
March 22, 2001... Any predictions of whether a bipartisan consensus on foreign or defense policy is possible in the coming years must be circumscribed by a good deal of humility and caution. Will the coming years be defined by the open arms of cooperation or...

Stopping at the Water's Edge.(foreign policy strategies)
March 22, 2001... Pundits and pessimists argue that a slim Republican margin in the House of Representatives, an equally divided Senate, and a president elected with no clear mandate for action will bring an already gridlocked Washington to a complete...

History's Lessons.(analysis of the current United States political position)
March 22, 2001... The challenges before us are monumental. But it is not every generation that is given the opportunity to shape a new international order. If the opportunity is missed, we shall live in a world of chaos and danger. If it is realized, we will...

The Legacy of Campaign 2000.
March 22, 2001... The 2000 U.S. elections had the broadest and highest stakes in modern times. For the first time in nearly five decades, every power center in Washington--the White House, the Senate, and the House of Representatives--was simultaneously up for...

The Opportunity Is Real.
March 22, 2001... On November 7, 2000, the U.S. political system delivered the closest thing it can offer to a mandate for coalition government. Not only the presidential election but balloting for congressional and state offices mirrored a nation closely...

The Bush Team's Prospects.(George W. Bush)
March 22, 2001... When President George W. Bush was governor of Texas, the hallmarks of his administration were the focus on a handful of big issues and the willingness to work with Democrats. Indeed "willingness" is too mild a word. Bush saw himself as a...

How to Forge Ahead.
March 22, 2001... Few words in politics are bandied about as much as bipartisanship. All politicians recognize that, like freedom or prosperity, its approval ratings approach 100 percent. Yet translating rhetorical support for bipartisanship into practice can...

Redefining Bipartisanship.
March 22, 2001... Did the U.S. tradition of bipartisan foreign policy die during the Clinton administration? I had not thought it had deteriorated so badly until I heard the vote on a normally routine resolution commending U.S. military personnel for their...

The Century of the Americas: Dawn of a New Century Dynamic.
March 22, 2001... The Quebec City summit of democratically elected leaders of the Americas represents a significant marker if leaders--particularly those in Washington--capitalize on a unique set of opportunities. The meeting, at which progress toward the Free...

A View from Brazil.(The Free Trade Area of the Americas and Brazil)
March 22, 2001... The Quebec City Summit of the Americas in April 2001 will be held six years after the Miami summit--when 34 heads of state and government of the Western Hemisphere decided to establish a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and agreed to...

The Quebec City 'Democracy Summit'.(Quebec City hosts the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit)
March 22, 2001... Winston Churchill once famously startled a dinner host by complaining that a pudding "lacks a theme." As the host country of the 2001 Summit of the Americas, Canada is wrestling with a number of choices on what its theme should be in April in...

A Ray of Hope.
March 22, 2001... After 11 dark years, rays of light have entered the long tunnel of violence that has enveloped Kashmir, one of the world's most intractable and dangerous problems. Indian prime minister A. B. Vajpayee has promised "bold and innovative steps"...

Reducing Tension Is Not Enough.
March 22, 2001... After 13 violent years, an air of change surrounds Kashmir. In Pakistan, old truths are being reconsidered, even if Pakistan's commitment to Kashmir cannot be. In India, a newly acknowledged confidence has the potential to encourage action....

Fear and Loathing in Kashmir.
March 22, 2001... One feels an eerie vulnerability throughout the streets of Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir, as Pakistan and India rattle their nuclear sabers. Life on the streets seems normal to the casual observer, or at least as normal as any other...

Reconsidering the U.S. Role.
March 22, 2001... India's and Pakistan's rival demonstrations of their nuclear capabilities in May 1998 heightened the stakes over Kashmir, the most heated point of diplomatic friction between the two countries. The detonations jolted the Clinton...

How Does 2000 Stack Up?(presidential election in 2000)
March 22, 2001... Although national elections are supposed to produce definitive winners and losers, this election was actually a tie. Politically speaking, America is split right down the middle. Republicans won the electoral college vote for president,...