Harvard International Review articles from June 2000

Harvard International Review archives from June 2000

Pariahs Forever?(Micheal Klare speaks at symposium)(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Rethinking Rogue States The concept of the "rogue state" has pervaded US foreign-policy thinking since the end of the Cold War. The term ostensibly labels states the United States views as threats to international norms and security. Yet...

LETTERS to the Editor.
June 22, 2000... The Politics of Single Motherhood In "Demand Driven Leadership" (Harvard International Review, Fall 1999) Lionel Tiger argues that various developments in contemporary Western society make single motherhood a reasonable choice for women;...

Another Vote.(Problem of proportional representation in Italy)
June 22, 2000... Electoral Reform in Italy On the morning of April 19, 1999, the early editions of many Italian national newspapers ran headlines declaring the passage of a referendum on electoral reform that was intended to create a more unified and...

Progress by Integration.
June 22, 2000... Helping Russian Science Though all Russian institutions have suffered tremendously during the transition to democracy and capitalism, few organizations have endured as much hardship as the scientific establishment. Ten years ago...

Deficient Democracy.(European Union)
June 22, 2000... The EU Body Politic On February 7, 1992, ministers of 12 European states signed a treaty ratifying the formation of the European Union (EU). The document, which came to be known as the Maastricht Treaty, stated in its first article:...

McDomination.
June 22, 2000... Trade and the Golden Arches Through the successful global marketing of the McDonald's franchise, the "Golden Arches" have come to symbolize consistent, routine American fast food. Yet in recent months the calm facade of McDonald's has...

Tribunal Tribulations.(Crimes against humanity in Yugoslavia)
June 22, 2000... The ICTY today The trial of two dozen Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg in the fall and winter of 1945 set a crucial historical precedent. Their conviction and punishment were meant not only to condemn the Nazis for mass murder and...

Avatar of Stability.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2000... Sai Baba's Teachings For spiritual seekers in the West, the key to understanding the religions of the East has often been through its gurus. Sathya Sai Baba, a dimunitive orange-robed religious leader from India, is one such widely...

Reform for Russia.
June 22, 2000... Forging a New Domestic Policy How has Russian arrived where it is today? In what direction is it headed? To answer the first question, we must return to where change began. Mikhail Gorbachev half-hearted reforms of the 1980s opened the way...

Islamism Reconsidered.
June 22, 2000... A Running Dialogue with Modernity The last quarter of the twentieth century saw the rise of an unexpected phenomenon: Islamism. Emerging in the Middle East in the early 1970s, it quickly propagated across the Muslim world and became the...

Kosovo's Mark.(Democracy in the Balkans)
June 22, 2000... Nationalism, Democracy, and Power in the Balkans The war in Kosovo marked a potential turning point for the Balkans. NATO's military defeat of Serbia, the International Criminal Tribunal's indictment of Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic...

China's Rural Challenge.
June 22, 2000... Prospects for the Spread of Village Democracy The Chinese government points to village elections as proof of its support for grassroots democracy and political reform. Yet despite a decade of village democracy, questions abound as to just...

Adrift at Sea.
June 22, 2000... US Interests and the Law of the Sea While more than 130 countries have become party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the United States, beholden to the short-term interests of its mining lobby, has yet to...

Asia's Dirty Secret.
June 22, 2000... Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in Southeast Asia While prostitution has an ancient history, the globalization of the sex trade is an unprecedented phenomenon. Despite recent exposure of the brutalities of prostitution and sex trafficking...

An Anachronistic Policy.
June 22, 2000... The Strategic Obsolescence of the "Rogue Doctrine" It has been ten years since General Colin Powell, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff manufactured the "Rogue Doctrine" as the basic template for US military strategy in the...

Weapons of Mass Reaction.
June 22, 2000... Rogue States and Weapons of Mass Destruction The idea of "rogue states" was briefly in vogue at the beginning of the Clinton administration. By the end of the administration, however, the term had ceased to be either stylish or fitting....

Sanctioning "Rogue States".
June 22, 2000... A Strategy in Decline? One of the major dilemmas faced by American policy-makers today is how to treat the countries that the United States now refers to as 'rogues.' America's European and Asian allies have traditionally dealt with these...

Rogue Concepts.
June 22, 2000... Misperceptions of North Korea The term "rogue state" is a euphemism, another name for enemy. Rogue states with an aggressive intent in nuclear arming are alleged to be the main proliferation menace in the world. But name-calling blinds the...

In a League of Its Own.
June 22, 2000... Assessing US Rogue Behavior Like many other terms of political discourse, the term "rogue state" has two uses: a propagandistic use, applied to assorted enemies, and a literal use that applies to states that do not regard themselves...

Dimensions of Disease.(Interview)
June 22, 2000... International cooperation and the AIDS epidemic Peter Piot, a native Belgian, was appointed executive director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and assistant secretary general of the United Nations in 1994. He was...

Untangling US Foreign Policy.
June 22, 2000... Woodrow Wilson versus Henry Cabot Lodge; Franklin Roosevelt versus the America Firsters; Bill Clinton versus Pat Buchanan--ask observers of international relations what foreign-policy views divided these pairs, and most will turn to the...

Paths for Ukraine.
June 22, 2000... Economic and Political Choices for the Next Century The fall of the Soviet empire and the post-Soviet economic transition are undoubtedly the most crucial events of the last decade of the twentieth century. Ukraine, the largest East...

Democracy in Hong Kong?
June 22, 2000... A Bumpy Road Toward Political Reform Had there been no 1997 Question, the first step toward democratization in Hong Kong in the early 1980s would never have been taken. As the return of the capitalist enclave to communist rule on July 1,...