ORBIS articles from January 2001

ORBIS archives from January 2001

Human Rights and Turkey's Future in Europe.
January 1, 2001... Democracy and human rights in Turkey have been a prominent subject of discussion in many international forums over the past ten years due to that country's unique domestic difficulties and geopolitical importance. Hardly any other country in...

The Kurdish Question in Turkish Politics.
January 1, 2001... In November 1998, Turkey's Kurdish question returned to the top of the international agenda with the seizure in Italy of Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the rebellious Kurdistan Workers' Party (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan--PKK). Demonstrations in...

The Rise and Fall of the PKK.
January 1, 2001... In 1992 Turkey was in the midst of a war with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan--PKK), whose forces were credibly estimated to be 10,000 strong. [1] In 1996 the journalist Franz Schurmann called the PKK "the biggest...

The Turkish-Israeli Odd Couple.
January 1, 2001... Turkey and Israel, by all accounts the predominant powers in the Middle East, have in the past decade forged an unlikely alliance that baffles many a keen observer of the region. On the face of it, there would seem to be little historical or...

Turkey's Caucasian Initiatives.
January 1, 2001... Since the end of the Cold War, Turkish diplomacy has been active a tous azimuths, not least the northeastern. In the many, often contentious republics that arose in the Caucasus after the Soviet crack-up, Turkish leaders perceive...

The Balkan Limits to Power and Principle.
January 1, 2001... American foreign policy in the past century has frequently been shaped not by the realities confronted by diplomats and soldiers, but by an idealistic longing to remake the world in the United States' own image. [1] The first American attempt...

Can the U.S. and India Be "Steadfast Friends"?
January 1, 2001... When our eight-person congressional staff delegation flew into New Delhi on January 9, 2000, four months had passed since Congress lifted economic sanctions against India for its May 1998 nuclear weapons test. It had been three months since...

South Asia's Dangers and U.S. Foreign Policy.
January 1, 2001... Before he left on his trip to South Asia in March 2000, President Clinton referred to that region as "the most dangerous place" on earth. His comment was inspired by the perception shared by many in Washington that rising tensions over...

Choosing Tragedy in Vietnam.(Review)
January 1, 2001... American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. By David E. Kaiser. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. 576 pp. $29.95.) Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam....

Radios, Rebels, and Rollback.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Operation Rollback: America's Secret War behind the Iron Curtain. By Peter Grose. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. 256 pp. $25.00.) Undermining the Kremlin: America Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947-1956 By Gregory Mitrovich....

Intelligence Reform, The Third Act.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Fixing the Spy Machine: Preparing American Intelligence for the Twenty-First Century. By Arthur S. Hulnick. (New York: Praeger, 1999. 222 pp. $65.00; $19.95, paper.) Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy. By Mark M. Lowenthal....

Editor's Column.(Middle East politics)(Editorial)
January 1, 2001... So the world did not end this January 1 either, even though 2001 marks the true beginning of the new millennium. But if the most fevered of spiritual speculations about the thousand-year reign of the saints were not reified, neither were the...

An Ambassador's Reflection.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... I am delighted that Orbis is devoting a large part of this issue to the Republic of Turkey. Many strategic observations have been written and will continue to be written about this vital country, its status as the key to eastern Mediterranean...