Harvard International Review articles from March 1999

Harvard International Review archives from March 1999

Harsh rule: recognizing the Taliban.
March 22, 1999... While most nations have refused to recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan, for all practical purposes, the Taliban rule the country. As of late January 1999, the Taliban regime controlled 90 percent of...

Congo tensions: the SADC's shortcomings.
March 22, 1999... As 1998 opened, sub-Saharan Africa was poised to enter a new age. Not only had the blood-shed of one of Africa's worst tribal wars finally ceased in Rwanda, but the regime of the continent's most infamous dictator of the decade--a symbol of the...

Silent consent: Indonesia's abuse of women.
March 22, 1999... A gang of men stopped a public bus and, forcibly removing all women of Chinese descent, proceeded to rape them. A ten-year old girl was seized from her ruined home and sexually assaulted in front of onlooking neighbors. These atrocities...

Patron to partner: reflections on the US-South Korean relationship.
March 22, 1999... JOHN BARRY KOTCH is Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Hanyang University, South Korea. Looking back on the past half-century of Korea's turbulent history, the United States can take...

Twilight of the despots: Asian-authoritarians and the need for enlightenment.
March 22, 1999... KARA TAN BHALA is First Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager at Merrill Lynch Asset Management. Before President Suharto of Indonesia was forced to resign, he was already an anachronism in Asia. He belonged to a dying breed of Asian...

Human quest: the international space station and Mars exploration.
March 22, 1999... DANIEL S. GOLDIN is Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This year, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) celebrates 40 years of scientific exploration. NASA's mission, to discover the...

Divergent neighbors: the Czech Republic and Slovakai since independence.
March 22, 1999... ANDOR I. MESZAROS, Senior Editor, Harvard International Review On January 1, 1993, the state of Czechoslovakia ceased to exist and the Czech Republic and Slovakia were born in its place. The "Velvet Divorce," as the breakup was known,...

Nuclear identity: Pakistan's domestic challenges.
March 22, 1999... JARED SHIRCK, Staff Writer, Harvard International Review After the euphoria of Pakistan's fiftieth anniversary celebration two years ago, its leaders refocused on the major economic and social problems within the nation. Since then,...

Cities and states: local actors in US foreign policy.
March 22, 1999... PAVEN MALHOTRA, Senior Editor, Harvard International Review The division of power between the state and federal governments in the United States has been a long-standing matter of contention. From the debates of the Constitutional...

Beyond the intrigues: Britain, New Labour, and the global age.
March 22, 1999... JOEL KRIEGER is the Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. Britain's New Labour government has garnered considerable international...

Unwritten rules: Britain's constitutional revolution.
March 22, 1999... DONLEY T. STUDLAR is Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of Political Science at West Virginia University and Executive Secretary of the British Politics Group. When the New Labour government led by Tony Blair took office in May 1997,...

Which way? The Third Way and the puzzle of New Labour.
March 22, 1999... STUART WHITE is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of the forthcoming book, The Civic Minimum: An Essay on the Rights and Obligations of Economic Citizenship. The...

Splendid isolation: looking to the future of Britain and Europe.
March 22, 1999... KIRSTY HUGHES is Head of the European Institute Policy Unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research. A confident British government, no longer at...

Facing history: establishing peace in Northern Ireland.
March 22, 1999... MO MOWLAM is Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. Maya Angelou has written, "History, despite its wrench and pain, cannot be unlived. But if faced with courage, it need not be lived again." The people of Northern Ireland took the poet's...

Daunting demographics: examining India's census.
March 22, 1999... Dr. M. Vijayanunni is the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. As Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India, Dr. M. Vijayanunni oversees the civil registration operations of the Republic of India. Most...

Mughal India and central Asia.
March 22, 1999... A world that is accustomed to multidirectional flows of information through the means of capacious strands of fiber optics and satellites might not realize the intricacy and complexity of the networks of communications between Central Asia and...

Crisis of global capitalism: open society endangered.
March 22, 1999... by George Soros Reviewed by MARTIN SANDBU Ph.D. candidate in Government, Harvard University George Soros's The Crisis of Global Capitalism is the personal and thoughtful testimony from a man better known for action than for...

Clean slate: Britain and Europe: a new start.
March 22, 1999... BY ROBIN COOK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Britain's foreign policy has changed dramatically since New Labour came to power on May 2, 1997. We have pushed human rights up our foreign policy agenda,...