Harvard International Review articles from June 22 1997

Harvard International Review archives from June 22 1997

Running on empty: emerging challenges in global energy security.
June 22, 1997... The last time energy security dominated the world stage was during the energy crises of the 1970s and early 1980s when events in the Middle East and belligerent Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) policy conspired to drive oil...

Mightier than the sword: energy markets and global security.
June 22, 1997... Dennis O'Brien is Executive Director of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council and President of the International Association for Energy Economics. The twentieth century has seen the concept of energy security evolve from a framework of...

Resource plenty: why fears of an oil crisis are misinformed.
June 22, 1997... Sarah A. Emerson is Director of Energy Security Analysis Inc., an energy research firm. Concerns over the "energy security" of an oil-consuming country arise from two commonly held assumptions. The first is the general assumption that...

Economic scarcity: forget geology, beware monopoly.
June 22, 1997... David L. Greene is a Senior Research Staff Member at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Scarcity of oil poses a genuine threat to US energy security. At the same time, the world economy is in no danger of "running out of oil" during the...

Gulf bottleneck: Middle East stability and world oil supply.
June 22, 1997... Richard N. Cooper is Boas Professor of International Economics at Harvard University. Since the disturbances caused by the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait six years ago, the international flow of oil has gone uninterrupted and unimpeded, but that...

Fueling the Rising Sun: Asia's energy needs and global security.
June 22, 1997... Kent E. Calder is Director of the Princeton University Program on US-Japan Relations and Special Advisor to the US Ambassador to Japan. Global energy markets stand amidst quiet, steady, and historic transformation. Traditionally, most of...

Twin challenges: energy and the environment in Asia.
June 22, 1997... William F. Martin is Chairman of Washington Policy and Analysis and Former US Deputy Secretary of Energy. Over the next 15 years, Asia's demand for energy is expected to more than double--accounting for approximately 40 percent of world...

Lasting balance: toward a global sustainable energy policy.
June 22, 1997... Maurice F. Strong is Chairman of the Earth Council, Executive Coordinator for UN Reform, and Senior Advisor to the President of the World Bank. As the world enters the next millennium, human civilization is undergoing profound changes that...

At long last: the struggle for democracy in Korea.
June 22, 1997... Kim Young Sam is President of the Republic of Korea. When I was elected President of the Republic of Korea in December 1992 as the first civilian to hold the job in 32 years, it was not only the crowning achievement of my lifelong campaign...

Pragmatic presence: US policy and Hong Kong's transition.
June 22, 1997... Douglas Bereuter is a member of the US House of Representatives and Chair of the House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific. Perhaps the most daunting foreign policy challenge for the United States in the twenty-first century is to coax...

Smooth sailing: Hong Kong's economic transition.
June 22, 1997... Dr. Victor Fung is Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council and of Prudential Asia Investments Ltd. On the eve of Hong Kong's transition to a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the Peoples Republic of China, there is much...

Looking back: tracking the progress of the Middle East peace.
June 22, 1997... AN INTERVIEW WITH JAMES A. BAKER, III James A. Baker, III, is a partner in the Houston law firm of Baker & Botts, and former US Secretary of State, White House Chief of Staff, and Secretary of the Treasury. James A. Baker, III, has...

Russian mafia: the challenge of reform.
June 22, 1997... Cameron Half is a Staff Writer for the Harvard International Review. A discussion of the state of the Russian polity in the post-communist era--whether among academicians, journalists, politicians, business-persons, or anyone else is...

Winding road: democratization in Kyrgyzstan.
June 22, 1997... Jason Schmitt is a Staff Writer for the Harvard International Review. While on a fund-raising visit to the United States in 1993, Kyrgyzstan's president Askar Akaev boldly predicted that, with proper funding, his nation would become the...

Changing the rules: deregulating the Japanese economy.
June 22, 1997... Jung Kim is a Staff Writer for the Harvard International Review. During the bubble days of the late 1980s, Japanese businessmen and bureaucrats alike proudly claimed that Japan had developed a new, advanced form of economic organization....

Orbiting politics: crises in outer space.
June 22, 1997... Greg Goldfarb is a Staff Writer for the Harvard International Review. On July 24, 1996, a small piece of rocket debris crashed into a French military satellite, sending the satellite spinning end over end. The fragment of rocket that...

Israel's "little Vietnam": negotiating withdrawal from South Lebanon.
June 22, 1997... David Honig is a Staff Writer for the Harvard International Review. When Israel carved out a nine-mile security zone in south Lebanon in 1978, it could not have imagined that its forces would still be there in 1997. Nearly 20 years have...

Causes and consequences in international relations.
June 22, 1997... (New York: Pinter, 1996) 216 pp. This latest work by Michael Nicholson is a thought provoking attempt to understand the complexities and disagreements arising from the search for a definition and analysis of international relations as a...

Coming conflict with China.
June 22, 1997... (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997) 245 pp. In this controversial interpretation of the future of relations between the United States and China, Bernstein and Munro argues that the two countries are potentially headed toward conflict due to...

Comparing development patterns in Asia.
June 22, 1997... (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1997) 198 pp. Having entered the post-World War II global economy as part of the impoverished developing world, the countries of Asia have since followed radically divergent courses in their economic growth and...