Harvard International Review articles from December 1998

Harvard International Review archives from December 1998

Real mediation for real peace.
December 22, 1998... The articles by Presidents Stephanopoulos and Demirel (pages 18 and 24) may read as long lists of complaints, but one should look under this surface to identify the overarching problem in current Greek-Turkish relations. As much as the two...

Putting people first.
December 22, 1998... One seeming absolute in modern political discourse has been that protecting the environment is an irrefutable good and an end that must be sought. The international community has joined together over the past decade with conferences and...

Clashing ideals.
December 22, 1998... The inconsistencies in US policy toward human rights abuses in China, Colombia, and Russia (pages 40 and 44) demonstrate one complexity in executing moral and strategic action without a realistic framework of goals. If a basic obligation exists...

Will it hold? The ETA ceasefire in Spain.
December 22, 1998... The people of the Basque country are accustomed to living in uncertainty. For thirty years the Basque Homeland and Freedom Separatist Organization (Euskadi ta Askatuta or ETA) has carried on a campaign of terrorism in pursuit of its ultimate...

Promises? (Gerhard) Schroeder's new Germany.
December 22, 1998... Gerhard Schroeder, Germany's debonair new chancellor, faces a Herculean labor: the challenge of leading Germany into the twenty-first century in the face of mounting economic obstacles. Unemployment stands at a daunting 10.4 percent,...

New race: Russia's arms trade.
December 22, 1998... Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the United States and the Russian Federation have remained in a constant state of competition over the international arms trade. In fact, Russia has made a...

Divided within: Israel and the religious right.
December 22, 1998... While the Israelis and the Palestinians continue to hammer out a permanent peace agreement, another serious conflict is brewing in Israel: the ideological conflict between Israel's ultra-orthodox Jewish population and secular Israelis. ...

Behind the veil: Saudi women and business.
December 22, 1998... From the outside, Al-Multaka looks like any other Saudi Arabian shopping center. Upon entering the door, however, the conventionalities disappear. But when the women remove their traditional full-length abaya robes to reveal the latest...

Right to run: refugees and state policy.
December 22, 1998... This past fall, Amnesty International and other human rights organizations jumped into the legal, moral, and political debate over the right of Spanish authorities to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet on the grounds of his...

Aegean peace: international law and the Greek-Turkish conflict.
December 22, 1998... CONSTANTINOS STEPHANOPOULOS is President of the Hellenic Republic. Greek and Turkish sovereign rights have been clearly fixed by international treaties for over half a century. The boundaries of the two nations are legally established, and...

Need for dialogue: Turkey, Greece, and the possibility of reconciliation.
December 22, 1998... SULEYMAN DEMIREL is President of Turkey. Turkish-Greek relations today seem far from the splendor of the days of Ataturk-Venizelos in the 1930s or those of Menderes-Karamanlis in the 1950s, when talks between the two countries were...

Phoenix: Yeltsin and the future of Russian leadership.
December 22, 1998... GWENDOLYN STEWART is a Fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University. In these troubled times, an ailing Boris Yeltsin seems the almost too-perfect symbol for an ailing Russia. This is not how the second term of the...

My enemy's enemy: Turkey, Israel, and the Middle Eastern balance of power.
December 22, 1998... GIL DIBNER, Editor-in-Chief, Harvard International Review Turkey's alienation from Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s led the political and military leadership in Ankara to re-evaluate Turkey's strategic situation and seek new allies....

Army of terror: the legacy of US-backed human rights abuses in Colombia.
December 22, 1998... PETER SANTINA, Staff Writer, Harvard International Review After three decades of civil war, Colombia is finally approaching peace. On August 7, 1998, Andres Pastrana assumed the presidency, replacing the discredited Ernesto Samper. The...

Stains of red: the changing face of human rights in Russia and China.
December 22, 1998... MARCO DURANTI, Staff Writer, Harvard International Review This past September; as the world was still reeling from Boris Yeltsin's latest cabinet shake-up, President Clinton defended his decision to attend a Moscow summit by stressing the...

New deal: development assistance in a global economy.
December 22, 1998... JAMES GUSTAVE SPETH is Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme. There is a disturbing paradox at the heart of international development cooperation. The paradox is that while the world's need for growing international...

Poverty of nations: the eurocentric bias of developmental economics.
December 22, 1998... OZAY MEHMET is Professor of International Affairs at Carleton University and author of Westernizing the Third World (1995). Our capitalist world has been shaped by a 200 year-old Western economic tradition that dates back to the publication...

Location, location: geography and economic development.
December 22, 1998... JOHN GALLUP is an Associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), and JEFFREY SACHS is the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade at Harvard University and Director of the HIID. Two centuries into the...

Talking it out: a communication-based approach to sustainable development.
December 22, 1998... ROBERT AGUNGA is Associate Professor of Human and Community Resource Development at The Ohio State University. Development aid seeks to improve the quality of life, particularly of rural people, in the developing world. But, with every dose...

Building blocks: microfinance and entrepreneurship in the developing world.
December 22, 1998... CHARLES L. DOKMO is President and CEO of Opportunity International USA, based in Oakbrook, Illinois, and LARRY REED is Managing Director of the Opportunity International Network. A torrent of international capital, unprecedented in world...

Green growth: India's environmental challenge.
December 22, 1998... SURESH PRABHU is Minister for the Environment and Forestry of the Republic of India. Around the world, leaders are struggling to meet the imperatives of development in an environmentally sustainable way. India, cognizant of the importance...

Leadership factor: the political dimensions of Africa's economic development.
December 22, 1998... ROBERT I. ROTBERG is President of the World Peace Foundation and Lecturer at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Africa's current economic and political problems can be solved only by principled and visionary...

Sanctioned suffering: the UN's bankrupt policy in Iraq.
December 22, 1998... Denis Halliday is the former UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq. As UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq from September 1997 to September 1998, Denis Halliday helped to double the oil revenues allowed for the Oil for Food Program imposed by...

To end a war: from Sarajevo to Dayton.
December 22, 1998... by Richard Holbrooke Reviewed by JAMES DER DERIAN Visiting Professor at Brown University's Watson Institute of International Studies The dogs of war litter Richard Holbrooke's vivid account of bringing peace to Bosnia. "We don't have a...

Econic sanctions and American diplomacy.
December 22, 1998... by Richard Haass Reviewed by RAYMOND TANTER Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan Economic sanctions are one of the hottest topics in dispute among politicians, business executives, and policy analysts. Advocates...

Balkan chill: the intrinsic weakness of the Dayton Accords.
December 22, 1998... BY CHARLES CRAWFORD Former British Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina It is now three years since the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina--usually known as the Dayton Accords--was signed in Paris on December...