Harvard International Review articles from June 1999

Harvard International Review archives from June 1999

One nation?
June 22, 1999... Abstract: The most controversial figure in recent Australian politics has been Pauline Hanson, leader of the political party One Nation. One Nation's supporters can be roughly divided into 2 overlapping groups: those who resent...

Echo of the past.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: Recently, Germans have been debating how to represent the past in a Holocaust Memorial to be built in the center of Berlin. The continuing debate over the Memorial indicates that many Germans still have not yet been able to come...

Trading waste.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: The 4th Basel Convention, held in Kuching, Malaysia on February 1998, marked a significant effort against an environmental challenge to the international community: the trading of waste between developed and developing nations....

Old choices.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: When Hugo Chavez inaugurated President on February 2, 1999, it seemed that a new era in Venezuelan politics had begun. Chavez's popularity has soared since his election because he has tried to show his devotion to the people...

Visible hand.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: The motivation behind microfinance is simple. Financial institutions can extend loans to the poor while making a reasonable profit. Approximately 3,000 microfinance institutions (MFIs) are in operation - the Grameen Bank of...

Capital offense.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: The violent crime rate in the former USSR continues to increase by 10% annually. As crime rates reach staggering heights, federal and local officials are searching for the proper means of punishing new criminals. In light of some...

Quebec's lesson: a path of peaceful separatism.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: The recent tragedy in Kosovo of a minority's struggle for self-determination has unfortunately been representative of the violent ethnic conflict that prevails across continents. Groups with different religions, languages, or...

At Russia's door.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: Upon signing the 1955 Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance in the Polish capital, representatives of the Soviet Union and its satellites graciously invited all European states to join their alliance. In...

On the brink.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: In Mexico, recent electoral reform has emerged hand in hand with what finally appears to be a near-level political field. Padding the domestic and international perception of a true Mexican democracy is the phenomenon of...

World prisms.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: As the century closes, the contradictory organizational energies associated with globalization and fragmentation are mounting concerted attacks on the primacy of the sovereign, territorial state as the sole building block of...

High velocity.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: Dramatic advances in technology and the collapse of international economic, political, and ideological barriers over the last decade have set the stage for an explosion of new business opportunities in the next century. New...

Revolutionary adaptations.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: The evolution of science and technology underlies a trend toward increasing complexity and uncertainty in international relations. Technological advances alone cannot effect change in the international order; they are directed by...

Captial mistress.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: To prognosticate about the future of the globe, much less the global economy, is a formidable task. What becomes apparent when one undertakes such an endeavor is that political and economic themes are inextricably intertwined....

Background note?
June 22, 1999... Abstract: International politics has fragmented, involving more diverse actors in myriad new sites. A new politics of ethnicity and nationalism is altering the conditions of both coexistence and cooperation. Interpreting these changes has...

Strategic vision.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: Some 8 years after the end of the Cold War, relations between the US and Russia are in a curious - and surprisingly dangerous - condition. Because international communism has collapsed as a worldwide threat, neither country has a...

Confining conditions.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: The domino effect seems to aptly describe the volatile economic situations - and subsequent political uncertainty - that have ravaged developing countries around the world since the middle of the 1990s. An economic crisis in one...

Eurosolid.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: Conceived in the Maastrict Treaty almost a decade ago, the gestation of the euro through the convergence process of the 1990s was a successful one. Convergence culminated in the achievement of price stability throughout the euro...

Economic stability (in East Asia).
June 22, 1999... Abstract: Any attempt to achieve international security in East Asia in the first few decades of the coming century should take as a basic premise the inevitability of significant change. Peace and stability are, in general, what most...

Birth pangs.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: There are presently 2 contending views of the African continent - one pessimistic, the other optimistic. The pessimists, regularly flashing images of Africa's miseries across the world's television screens, dismiss Africa as a...

Identity crisis (in South Asia).
June 22, 1999... Abstract: With the sunset of the 20th century fast approaching, it seems more prudent to take stock of the Indian subcontinent's past and present without making facile distinctions between the religious and the secular, the emotional and...

Global game: (soccer).
June 22, 1999... Abstract: Just a year into his first term as president of Federation Internationale de Football Association, Joseph Blatter has begun a series of efforts to modernize and expand the sport of football. His plan to move the World Cup to a...

America's imperial burden: is the past prologue?
June 22, 1999... Abstract: America's Imperial Burden: Is the Past Prologue?, by Ernest W. Lefever, is reviewed. Text: Headnote: Falsehoods in US Foreign Policy America's role in the post-Cold War world has been a contentious topic within...

Beyond belief: Islamic excursions among the converted people.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted People, by V.S. Naipaul, is reviewed. Text: Headnote: Islamic Journeys Revisited In Among the Believers (1981) the writer VS. Naipaul offered an account of...

Haunted by history.
June 22, 1999... Abstract: The question of race is the defining parameter in South Africa's continuing struggle for national unity and reconciliation. For many years to come, South Africa's progress as a nation will be measured by the degree to which it...