ORBIS articles from June 1996

ORBIS archives from June 1996

Beijing's reach in the South China Sea.
June 22, 1996... Since the early 1980s, China has consistently sought to accelerate the modernization of its conventional forces. The essence of that new policy was captured by Chinese strategists in a "set of eight Chinese characters: zongti fanqwei, zhongdian...

Moscow's plans to restore its power.
June 22, 1996... Colonel General Valerii Mironov, a former deputy defense minister and now the principal military advisor to Russia's premier, recently stated that the "Cold War still goes on and only one definite period of it is over." To be sure, the general...

A sober survey of the Islamic world.
June 22, 1996... Islam inspires fear and fascination in the Western imagination. It calls to mind puritanical holy warriors, fanatics, dervishes, suicide bombers, hijackers, and human waves thrown into battle. The strange fulminations of a Khomeini, Qaddafi, or...

Why the United States must remain engaged. (politics and government)
June 22, 1996... The 1990s are a fertile, formative period for world politics and American foreign policy. With the collapse of the Soviet empire and the end of the cold war, bipolar global competition is over, the Soviet threat to Western Europe has ended, and...

Is "the West" religious or secular?
June 22, 1996... We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and...

A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990's.
June 22, 1996... In many ways, Indonesia has proved the skeptics wrong. Desperately poor when it gained independence in 1949, the country has since recovered from 350 years of Dutch colonial exploitation, followed by Japanese military occupation in 1942-45...

Indonesian Politics Under Suharto: Order, Development and Pressure for Change.
June 22, 1996... In many ways, Indonesia has proved the skeptics wrong. Desperately poor when it gained independence in 1949, the country has since recovered from 350 years of Dutch colonial exploitation, followed by Japanese military occupation in 1942-45...

Indonesian in ASEAN: Foreign Policy and Regionalism.
June 22, 1996... In many ways, Indonesia has proved the skeptics wrong. Desperately poor when it gained independence in 1949, the country has since recovered from 350 years of Dutch colonial exploitation, followed by Japanese military occupation in 1942-45 and...

First World, Ha Ha Ha! The Zapatista Challenge.
June 22, 1996... Just as wars, depressions, and other upheavals influence the arts visited upon a country, so the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has profoundly shaped the art of politics in Mexico, according to several recent books. NAFTA,...

Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiques of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.
June 22, 1996... Just as wars, depressions, and other upheavals influence the arts visited upon a country, so the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has profoundly shaped the art of politics in Mexico, according to several recent books. NAFTA,...

The Dynamics of Domination: State, Class, and Social Reform in Mexico, 1910-1990.
June 22, 1996... Just as wars, depressions, and other upheavals influence the arts visited upon a country, so the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has profoundly shaped the art of politics in Mexico, according to several recent books. NAFTA,...

The Paradox of Revolution: Labor, the State, and Authoritarianism in Mexico.
June 22, 1996... Just as wars, depressions, and other upheavals influence the arts visited upon a country, so the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has profoundly shaped the art of politics in Mexico, according to several recent books. NAFTA,...

The Paradox of the Mexican State: Rereading Sovereignty from Independence to NAFTA.
June 22, 1996... Just as wars, depressions, and other upheavals influence the arts when visited upon a country, so the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has profoundly shaped the art of politics in Mexico, according to several recent NAFTA, which...

The Guerrilla Wars of Central America: Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala.
June 22, 1996... Central America has slipped off the front pages and mostly disappeared from the inside pages of American newspapers. For all intents and purposes, the wars that convulsed the region from 1979 to 1992 are over. With the end of these wars and...

The Struggle for Peace in Central America.
June 22, 1996... Central America has slipped off the front pages and mostly disappeared from the inside pages of American newspapers. For all intents and purposes, the wars that convulsed the region from 1979 to 1992 are over. With the end of these wars and...

States and Social Evolution: Coffee and the Rise of National Governments in Central America.
June 22, 1996... Central America has slipped off the front pages and mostly disappeared from the inside pages of American newspapers. For all intents and purposes, the wars that convulsed the region from 1979 to 1992 are over. With the end of these wars and...

Indigenous Peoples and Democracy in Latin America.
June 22, 1996... Central America has slipped off the front pages and mostly disappeared from the inside pages of American newspapers. For all intents and purposes, the wars that convulsed the region from 1979 to 1992 are over. With the end of these wars and...

The New Politics of Survival: Grassroots Movements in Central America.
June 22, 1996... Central America has slipped off the front pages and mostly disappeared from the inside pages of American newspapers. For all intents and purposes, the wars that convulsed the region from 1979 to 1992 are over. With the end of these wars and...

The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century.
June 22, 1996... The Clinton administration came into office as a wave of concern was building about the impact that environmental problems could have on national security. Vice President Al Gore, known as a moderate, entitled his best-selling book Earth in...

The True State of the Planet.
June 22, 1996... The Clinton administration came into office as a wave of concern was building about the impact that environmental problems could have on national security. Vice President Al Gore, known as a moderate, entitled his best-selling book Earth in...

The State of Humanity.
June 22, 1996... The Clinton administration came into office as a wave of concern was building about the impact that environmental problems could have on national security. Vice President Al Gore, known as a moderate, entitled his best-selling book Earth in...

But Is It True? A Citizen's Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues.
June 22, 1996... The Clinton administration came into office as a wave of concern was building about the impact that environmental problems could have on national security. Vice President Al Gore, known as a moderate, entitled his best-selling book Earth in...

A Moment on the Earth: The Coming Age of Environmental Optimism.
June 22, 1996... The Clinton administration came into office as a wave of concern was building about the impact that environmental problems could have on national security. Vice President Al Gore, known as a moderate, entitled his best-selling book Earth in...

The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change.
June 22, 1996... The Clinton administration came into office as a wave of concern was building about the impact that environmental problems could have on national security. Vice President Al Gore, known as a moderate, entitled his best-selling book Earth in...

Managing the Global Commons: The Economics of Climate Change.
June 22, 1996... The Clinton administration came into office as a wave of concern was building about the impact that environmental problems could have on national security. Vice President Al Gore, known as a moderate, entitled his best-selling book Earth in the...