Harvard International Review articles from March 2001

Harvard International Review archives from March 2001

Knowledge is Power.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Media, Information, and Politics With fervent idealism, the media have long embraced their role as the fourth estate, casting themselves as objective protectors of political accountability and the truth. Yet this characterization seems...

LETTERS to the Editor.
March 22, 2001... A More Revitalized Trade Agenda Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky's article is entitled "A Revitalized Trade Agenda" (HIR, Fall 2000). Although the subtitle--"Complications and Directions in World Trade Policy"--appears to limit the article's...

A Forgotten Enemy.(smallpox)
March 22, 2001... The Threat of Smallpox A little over two decades ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the official eradication of smallpox, the deadliest disease in recorded history, responsible for an estimated 300 to 500 million deaths in...

Right Tilt.(Bharatiya Janata Party in India and Hindu extremism)
March 22, 2001... India and the BJP On January 23, 1999, an Australian missionary, Graham Staines, and his two young sons were burned to death by Hindu extremists as they slept in their car in a rural Indian village. This incident, which shocked Indians...

Trading China.(US Senate votes to extend normal trading relations with China)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... PNTR and Democracy On September 2000, the US Senate voted 83-15 for a controversial to extend permanent normal trading relations (PNTR) status to China. The bill effectively guaranteed China equal trading status with the United States;...

Reluctant Entrant.(Poland reforms to European Union standards)(Brief Article)
March 22, 2001... Poland and the EU Poland applied for EU membership in April 1994 and since then has followed a program designed to adjust its legal and economic structures to EU standards. Agriculture is the area that Poland most needs to reform in...

Island of Intolerance?(May 2000 coup in Fiji)
March 22, 2001... The Fijian Debacle During Fiji's May 2000 coup, George Speight and his fellow conspirators moved the nation away from the democratic ideals that had been so carefully cultivated in the late 1990s. The events that led to Speight's...

Standing By.(Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
March 22, 2001... ASEAN in Crisis Before the 1999 Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Bangkok, Shanmugam Jayakumar, foreign minister of Singapore, cautioned that ASEAN had to counter "the perception of ASEAN as ineffective and a...

Yugoslavia in Retrospect.
March 22, 2001... Lessons from the War By now, it is almost a truism to say that, during the 1990s, developments in Europe and the world were significantly influenced by the Balkans--more precisely, by the Yugoslav wars. These corrosive crises not only...

The Clumsy Cartel.(Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)
March 22, 2001... OPEC's Uncertain Future Since 1970 the world price of crude oil has been both high and unstable. The price-setter, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), whose members include the United Arab Emirates, Algeria,...

The New Face of Mexico.
March 22, 2001... Vicente Fox's Mexican Revolution Relaxing in a big leather chair on the family ranch where he was raised, Vicente Fox Quesada sees a new Mexico. When he was born here 58 years ago in this central Mexican farming village that surrounds a...

From Playstation to Detonation.
March 22, 2001... The Potential Threat of Dual-Use Technology While video-game lovers around the world rejoiced at the opportunity to play W "Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown" on the newly released Sony Playstation 2, the Japanese government was preparing its...

The People's War?
March 22, 2001... The Resurgence of Maoism in Nepal February 13, 1996, marked the symbolic beginning of the People's War of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-M). On that day, activists and sympathizers gathered outside a government office that made...

Asia's Informal Diplomacy.
March 22, 2001... Track Two Discussion and Regionalism In a world of nation-states it is natural to think of diplomacy as a formal and exclusive activity. Official speeches, defense white papers, and elaborate diplomatic etiquette further reinforce this...

The Uncertainty of Digital Politics.
March 22, 2001... Democracy's Uneasy Relationship with Information Technology Telecommunications technology has from the start been regarded as an engine of democracy. Recently, this same technology has also driven globalization, helping to make frontiers...

Free Media in Unfree Societies.
March 22, 2001... Eastern Europe in Transition Government attacks on independent media in the post-communist world are becoming commonplace. Some of these attacks have attracted widespread press coverage from around the world; others have passed by with...

The Digital Revolution and The New Reformation.
March 22, 2001... Doctrine and Gender in Islam Any major university in the United States may have more computer literate individuals than several states of the Nigerian Federation. This disparity between computer-skilled and computer-challenged highlights...

Fit to Print?
March 22, 2001... Comparing Standards of News One of the hardest things about living in a foreign country is understanding the news--even when it is in English. Some politician you have never heard of has given a news conference. Welfare benefits of...

Exuberant Reporting.
March 22, 2001... Media and Misinformation in the Markets Although the news media--newspapers, magazines, broadcast media, and now the Internet--present themselves as detached observers of market events, they are themselves an integral part of these events....

Truth on the Battlefield.
March 22, 2001... Between News and the Notional Interest Reflecting on the evolving interplay between those who wage war and those who report on it, I'm reminded of the speculation, indulged in by more than one historian, on what effect television cameras...

Cambodian Inroads.(interview with Kenneth Quinn about United States relations with Cambodia)
March 22, 2001... Reflections on Diplomacy in Southeast Asia Kenneth Quinn has had a long and distinguished diplomatic career, spending nearly 32 years in the US Foreign Service and becoming one of the most decorated officers of his generation. He is one of...

Saddam Defiant.(Saddam Hussein of Iraq)(Abstract)(Brief Article)(Review)
March 22, 2001... Perpetuating the Iraqi Threat From 1997 until its demise in 1999, Richard Butler was executive chairman of the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM). UNSCOM was created by the UN Security Council in 1991 to oversee the...

Correction.
March 22, 2001... An interview with Judge Stephen Schwebel in the Winter 2001 issue of the Harvard International Review contained an error. Judge Schwebel did not in fact represent the United States during his term. Instead, as dictated by the Court's statute,...

What Lies Beneath.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Assessing the Impact of France's Nuclear Tests Between 1966 and 1996, France conducted 193 nuclear experiments above and beneath the atolls of Mururoa and Fangataufa in the Tuamoyu Archipelago of French Polynesia. After cessation of all...

Confronting Biological Terrorism.
March 22, 2001... Global Epidemiological Monitoring It is difficult for policymakers to assess the likelihood of a mass-casualty terrorist attack on their nations, but the consequences of such a possibility demand that governments pay serious attention to...