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Policy Review articles from December 2002
A bimonthly journal of the Hoover Institution that promotes inquiry into the American condition, American and other government and political and economic systems, and the role of the United States in the world. For the academic audience.
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Policy Review archives from December 2002
The intellectual origins of America-Bashing.
December 1, 2002... A SPECTER HAUNTS the world, and that specter is America. This is not the America discoverable in the pages of a world atlas, but a mythical America that is the target of the new form of anti-Americanism that Salman Rushdie, writing in the...
The new diplomacy.(alliance of NGOS and small and medium sized nations )
December 1, 2002... IN APRIL 2002, delegates from 66 nations and dozens of nongovernmental organizations (NGOS) gathered at United Nations headquarters in New York to celebrate the ratification of the treaty creating the International Criminal Court (ICC). In the...
Overcoming motherhood: pushing the limits of reproductive choice.
December 1, 2002... TO INVOKE PROMETHEUS, the figure of Greek myth who was punished by Zeus for stealing fire from Hephaestus and giving it to humans, has become a popular warning against scientific hubris in our new age of biotechnology and genetic engineering....
Nuclear deterrence, then and now.
December 1, 2002... THE COLD WAR CONSENSUS on the role of nuclear arms in American national security has dissolved, a casualty of the demise of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet empire itself. In place of a threat posed by an adversary commanding superior...
Gibraltar on the rocks: the American stake in a sovereignty dispute.
December 1, 2002... PROTESTS, JEERS, AND CURSES greeted British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on a May 3, 2002 visit to Gibraltar. In view of Britain's role as administering power and de facto protector of the small but strategic Mediterranean territory -- and in...
Waiting for sunrise. (Books).(China Dawn: The Story of a Technology and Business Revolution)(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... DAVID SHEFF. China Dawn: The Story of a Technology and Business Revolution. HARPERBUSINESS. 301 PAGES. $26.95
EVERYBODY WANTS something from China. American policymakers would like to see Chinese authoritarian rule undermined and democracy...
A triumph of style. (Books).(The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken)(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... TERRY TEACHOUT. The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken. HARPERCOLLINS. 432 PAGES. $29.95
THE NAME H.L. Mencken is instantly recognizable to the citizens of Baltimore and perhaps, though not as it once was, to the citizens of the United States...
A reformer in Egypt. (Books).(Tarek Heggy, Egyptian Political Essays)(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... TAREK HEGGY. Egyptian Political Essays. DAR AL SHOROUK. 423 PAGES. $10.00
IMAGINE AN ARAB voice, based in the region, part of the elite, that calls for self-criticism and massive political and economic reform and that frankly admits the...
On our honor. (Books).(Liberalism with Honor)(Book Review)
December 1, 2002... SHARON R. KRAUSE. Liberalism with Honor. HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 288 PAGES. $29.95
THE LANGUAGE of honor is not well received today. Honor invokes aristocratic images of privilege and inherited status that appear to affront our...
Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
December 1, 2002... The Reality of Fantasy
SIR, -- While reading Lee Harris's article, I became increasingly aware that he conveniently ignored issues such as retaliation, revolt, response to oppression, and fighting back. All these would be from al Qaeda's...