ORBIS articles from September 1994

ORBIS archives from September 1994

Winning the peace. (reestablishment of US as supreme power)
September 22, 1994... Public opinion polls confirm that the American people agree with the experts: U.S. foreign policy is in trouble.(1) Behind the floundering, the American people sense an inner uncertainty: the President and his team are not sure of the...

The Asian interior: the myth of "Tsentral'naia Aziia." (Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan)
September 22, 1994... Meeting in Tashkent in January 1993, the presidents of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and the chairman of Tajikistan's parliament concluded their discussion of common concerns with what they saw to be a momentous...

The Asian interior: the geopolitical pull on Russia.
September 22, 1994... Professor Firuz Kazemzadeh of Yale University has cautioned against expecting the five Central Asian states--Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan--to develop into democracies in the near term: Democracy is a...

The Asian interior: China's waxing spheres of influence.
September 22, 1994... Most current discussions of China's relations with the rest of Asia tend to have a primarily eastward or southward focus--eastward to Taiwan, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula, or southward to the South China Sea, where China's claims of...

Russian vital interests and western security.
September 22, 1994... The fall 1993 crisis in Moscow resulted in more than the forceful disbandment of the old Russian parliament. It marked Moscow's rejection of the principle of integration with the West ending one key stage in the debate within Boris Yeltsin's...

Rethinking the new world order.
September 22, 1994... The debate about the latest "new world order"--the third in this century alone--turns primarily on claims about the obsolescence of war and war-like behavior following the end of the cold war. Three claims in particular dominate recent...

Rules of engagement for U.N. peacekeeping forces in Bosnia.
September 22, 1994... Like most military units, the U.N. Protection Forces (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia operate under explicit Rules of Engagement (ROE), or written orders defining when the troops can use force. The ROE printed here were issued by General Jean Cot, then...

Diplomacy.
September 22, 1994... By Henry Kissinger. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 912 pp. $35.00. "The cunning writer will choose an indefinable subject," wrote William Sydney Porter--nom de plume O. Henry--"for he can then set down his theory of what it is; and next,...

Oh Henry! Kissinger and his critics. (former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger)
September 22, 1994... Diplomacy. By Henry Kissinger. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 912 pp. $35.00.) "The cunning writer will choose an indefinable subject," wrote William Sydney Porter--nom de plume O. Henry--"for he can then set down his theory of what it...

On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society.
September 22, 1994... By Gertrude Himmelfarb. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. 191 pp. $23.00.) The American role in world affairs has always been in large measure determined by domestic conditions, not just economic and political ones but intellectual and...

Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science.
September 22, 1994... By Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. 314 pp. $25.95. The American role in world affairs has always been in large measure determined by domestic conditions, not just economic and political...

The attack on science and reason. (American society, culture and intellectual trends)
September 22, 1994... On Looking into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on culture and society. By Gertrude Himmelfarb. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. 191 pp. $23.00.) Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science. By Paul R. Gross and Norman...

Apartheid's Genesis 1935-1962.
September 22, 1994... Edited by Philip Bonner, Peter Delius, Deborah Posel. (Braamfontein: Ravan Press, and Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1993; distributed in the United States by University of Ohio Press. 455 pp. $24.95, paper. For years now,...

Policing South Africa: The South African Police and the Transition from Apartheid.
September 22, 1994... By Gavin Cawthra. (Atlantic Highways, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1993. 226 pp. $55.00; $19.95, paper. For years now, South Africa has been seen by many as a pariah state of a special sort, an evil unto itself, an unreconstructured example...

Beyond apartheid: South Africa's hazy future.
September 22, 1994... Edited by Philip Bonner, Peter Delius, Deborah Posel. (Braamfontein: Ravan Press, and Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1993; distributed in the United States by University of Ohio Press. 455 pp. $24.95, paper. The South African...

South Africa's Crisis of Constitutional Democracy: Can the U.S. Constitution Help?
September 22, 1994... Edited by Robert A. Licht and Bertus de Villiers. (Cape Town, South Africa: Juta and Co., and Washington, D.C.: The AEI Press, 1994. 261 pp. $31.75.) For years now, South Africa has been seen by many as a pariah state of a special sort, an...