Journal of International Affairs articles from March 2003

Journal of International Affairs archives from March 2003

About the publication.(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... Originally entitled the Columbia Journal of International Affairs, the Journal was established in 1947 as a non-profit organization affiliated with the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. As the second oldest...

Foreword.(Editorial)
March 22, 2003... The events of 11 September 2001 and the subsequent war in Afghanistan saw their fair share of winners and losers in the international arena. The Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, at the...

Acronym list.
March 22, 2003... ABC Aqtau-Baku-Ceyhan pipeline ACBAR Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief ADB Asian Development Bank ASEAP Aral Sea Environment Assistance Plan BITS Swedish Bank for Investment and Technical Support BTC...

Taking stock of Central Asia. (Assessing the Central Asian Republics).
March 22, 2003... The region may be changing less than a cursory glance would suggest. Russia's influence in the region was waning steadily well before the September 11 attacks, while the influence of the United States in the region had been steadily on the...

Islam, Islamism and political order in Central Asia. (Pressing Issues).
March 22, 2003... Above all, the West should make every effort to not present Muslims with a perceived choice between repressive secular governments supported by the West and repressive anti-Western governments run by Islamists--in other words, between Iran and...

Who's watching the watchdogs? (Pressing Issues).
March 22, 2003... Imagine a smuggler approaches, one former border guard told me, describing how guards patrol in groups of two or three over sparse terrain. "He tells you that if you turn the other way for five minutes, you can be a millionaire. But if you...

The Aral Sea disaster and the disaster of international assistance. (Pressing Issues).
March 22, 2003... Mirroring the graveyard of ships littering the bed of the ever-shrinking Aral Sea, a similar graveyard of international assistance projects mars the landscape--projects that failed, were discontinued or never even begun. ********** ...

Sizing up the Central Asian economies. (Pressing Issues).
March 22, 2003... As the countries achieve international prominence, and the focus on post-Communist transition fades away, labeling them the "stans" fails to capture the vital economic and political differences that each nation faces. How each country deals...

The Caspian energy conundrum.
March 22, 2003... The region as a whole has a series of tense and complicated connections with bordering states and an unstable and shifting role in global politics and economics. All of these factors contribute to making the energy trade in Central Asia a...

Population politics in Kazakhstan. (Pressing Issues).
March 22, 2003... There may be a Kazakh majority not because of [Nazarbayev's] attempts to create a Kazakh homeland, but because of Kazakhstan's desperate economic conditions. Echoing the Kazakh flight during Soviet collectivization, many Kazakhs appear to have...

Southern watch: Russia's policy in Central Asia. (Foreign Policies Toward the Region).
March 22, 2003... With regard to Central Asia, as well as globally, Russia has dropped all ideological claims. Neither Soviet modernization nor the czarist mission civilisatrice inspire the present ruling elite in Moscow. ********** Contemporary...

Iran's pragmatic regional policy. (Foreign Policies Toward the Region).
March 22, 2003... The notion that an ideological competition between Iran and Turkey would determine the internal evolution and external orientation of post-Soviet Muslim republics was simplistic and deeply flawed. ********** By mid 1990, it became...

Promoting democracy: an interview with Stephen Sestanovich. (Foreign Policies Toward the Region).(Interview)
March 22, 2003... These countries are not ours to remake. But influencing the direction they take is not only something that we can contribute to. It is very much in our interest to do so. ********** Journal: Is there a serious analysis out there that...

The strategic future of Central Asia: a view from Washington. (Foreign Policies Toward the Region).
March 22, 2003... To avoid the errors of the past, the United States must develop a wide-ranging policy to win the global war on terrorism, while encouraging the evolution of political and economic pluralism in all Central Asian countries. ********** ...

A view from within. (Photo Essay).
March 22, 2003... Photographer Jason Eskenazi was a Guggenheim Fellow for his work in Russia. He was most recently in Afghanistan for the Open Society Institute, documenting the reconstruction process. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Visiting a...

From warlords to peacelords? (The Future of Afghanistan).
March 22, 2003... In a country with a deep tradition of localized and personalized rule, the prospect of a centralized government--the base around which reconstruction efforts were to be harnessed in the aftermath of the war against the Taliban--remains distant....

Rethinking governance in Afghanistan. (The Future of Afghanistan).
March 22, 2003... Any future government in Afghanistan will have to resolve the problem of representation in a government based on population, and most importantly, on territorial representation that will accommodate most major ethnic groups and regional...

Domestic sources of Uzbekistan's foreign policy, 1991 to the present. (The Andrew Wellington Cordier Essay).
March 22, 2003... While Karimov's policies have appealed to recent U.S. administrations, the recognition that Uzbekistan's stability is merely an illusion may jeopardize U.S.-Uzbek relations in the future. ********** While systemic theories often serve...

Boundary issues in Central Asia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Necati Polat Ardsley, NY: Transnational Publishers, Inc., 2002, 282 pages When Central Asia's states became independent, political analysts were pessimistic. All indicators seemed to predict conflict in one form or another: The states...

State Making and Environmental Cooperation: Linking Domestic and International Politics in Central Asia.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... By Erika Weinthal Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002, 224 pages By the end of the 1980s, it was readily apparent that the Aral Sea, once the fourth largest in-land sea in the world and source of sustenance for several hundred thousand...