Policy Review articles from June 2004

Policy Review archives from June 2004

The future of Ground Zero: Daniel Libeskind's perverse vision.
June 1, 2004... "AN ARCHITECT FROM Berlin has received the commission for the most spectacular and surely also the most delicate building project in the world," a news anchor announces. The "architect from Berlin" is Daniel Libeskind, and his commission is "to...

The Black Sea and the frontiers of freedom.
June 1, 2004... A SERIES OF HISTORICALLY unprecedented events have brought the attention of the West to the wider Black Sea region--that region including the littoral states of the Black Sea, Moldova, and the Southern Caucasus countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan,...

The religious sources of Islamic terrorism.
June 1, 2004... WHILE TERRORISM--even in the form of suicide attacks--is not an Islamic phenomenon by definition, it cannot be ignored that the lion's share of terrorist acts and the most devastating of them in recent years have been perpetrated in the name of...

The psychological sources of Islamic terrorism: alienation and identity in the Arab world.
June 1, 2004... THE THREATS WE are now confronting have roots in surprising places. And yet, even after September 11, and now post-Operation Iraqi Freedom, national security by and large continues to be defined in the traditional way. Threats are concrete,...

The promise of Arab liberalism.
June 1, 2004... THE MIDDLE EAST IS, according to Freedom House, the least free region on the globe. It resisted even the third wave of democratization that swept through Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe during the 1980s and 1990s. Arab "exceptionalism"...

The false promise of Arab liberals.
June 1, 2004... IN THE MONTHS and years since September 11, the idea that the United States should be more active in promoting democracy in the Arab world has become commonplace. President Bush dedicated an entire speech to the subject on November 6, 2003...

Lost boys at 70.(Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?)(Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... JAMES J. HECKMAN AND ALAN B. KRUEGER. Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? MIT PRESS. 384 PAGES. $40.00 JOHN H. LAUB AND ROBERT J. SAMPSON. Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70. HARVARD...

Knowledge as power.(Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to al-Qaeda)(Book Review)
June 1, 2004... JOHN KEEGAN. Intelligence in War: Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to al-Qaeda. KNOPF. 387 PAGES. $30.00 JOHN KEEGAN may be the best-known military historian of our age. Certainly he is the most widely read. The Face of Battle, The Mask...