Harvard International Review articles from March 2002

Harvard International Review archives from March 2002

And justice for all?: The new era of international law. (Editor's Note).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... International law is the object of both great hope and great fear. In an era of unprecedented globalization, international legal institutions serve as vehicles for the facilitation of commerce and cooperation among nations. And in the last...

War on terrorism: Leadership before Multilateralism. (Letters to the Editor).
March 22, 2002... In the aftermath of September 11, many highly contrived, though well-intentioned, articles have appeared in various journals. Sabeel Rahman's article ("Another New World Order? Multilateralism in the Aftermath of September 11," HIR, Winter...

Chechen Chagrin: Human Rights in Chechnya. (Global Notebook).
March 22, 2002... Since October 1999, Chechnya has seen intense conflict between residents and occupying Russian forces. Grievous abuses of human rights have been reported, including extrajudicial executions, torture, and arbitrary arrests. However, Russia...

Bad Hair Day: Koizumi's struggle in Japan. (Global Notebook).
March 22, 2002... When Junichiro Koizumi became prime minister of Japan in April 2001, he had an approval rating of nearly 90 percent. Elected to office without the full support of his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Koizumi was acclaimed by junior...

Refugees or Migrants?: The Roma of Eastern Europe. (Global Notebook).
March 22, 2002... When Czech national television ran a story on the leniency of British asylum laws in 1997, hundreds of Gypsies entered Britain asking for recognition of refugee status. By claiming ethnic oppression in their countries of origin, they...

The Oils of War: Conflict in the Sudan. (Global Notebook).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Civil conflict in Sudan has raged for 34 out of the past 45 years. It has been responsible for over two million casualties and has displaced over four million people in the last 17 years alone. With no attention from major news...

Tuvalu Little, Tuvalu Late: A Country goes under. (Global Notebook).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Most people are unaware of the existence of the small nation of Tuvalu, a nine-island archipelago in the South Pacific 1000 km north of Fiji and 4000 km east of Australia. Given its minuscule size and remote location, this is hardly surprising....

Asian invasion: Baseball's Ambassadors. (Global Notebook).
March 22, 2002... The 2001 US Major League Base ball (MLB) season heralded greater prominence for a relatively new presence in the American national pastime--that of Asian baseball players. Ichiro Suzuki--better known as "Ichiro"--after dominating Japanese...

Pakistan's dilemma: Breaking links with the past. (Perspectives).
March 22, 2002... The unspeakable sequence of terrorism in New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC on September 11, 2001, was a crime against humanity that sent a wave of revulsion throughout the civilized world--a world that will never be the same again. The...

On the horizon: The dawn of a new Sino-Japanese Rivalry. (Perspectives).(Statistical Data Included)
March 22, 2002... Asia first glimpsed its future in 1997 when Japan and the United States renegotiated their long-standing defense arrangements and China tried to sway Taiwan's elections by lobbing missiles into the Taiwan Strait. As the US Pacific fleet...

Raising the bar: Human-Rights initiatives in Taiwan. (Perspectives).
March 22, 2002... In the March 2000 election, the Republic of China (ROC) crossed a crucial threshold. With my election as president, Taiwan experienced the first-ever party rotation in its history. In my inauguration address in May, I proposed a number of...

Passing the cup: The meaning of the America's Cup at the global table. (World in Review).
March 22, 2002... The oldest sporting trophy in the world, the America's Cup, celebrated its sesquicentennial this past August in the Isle of Wight, where it was first wrested from the hands of the British by the ship America in 1851. Royalty and business...

Learning curve: The United States and the future of Pakistan. (World in Review).(collaboration during Afghanistan conflict)
March 22, 2002... Since the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington last fall, coalition building has become the new catchphrase in foreign policy. Forming close relationships with Muslim countries is essential for success in the war on terrorism, and thus...

Bittersweet harvest: The debate over Genetically Modified crops. (World in Review).(Monsanto Co.)
March 22, 2002... In 1982 scientists on the 4th floor of the Monsanto Company U Building successfully introduced a foreign gene into a plant cell for the first time in history. These plants were genetically modified: they continued to express the new gene while...

Collateral damage: Sacrificing legitimacy in the search for justice. (International Law).(September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks and ensuing Afghanistan conflict)
March 22, 2002... While the world mourned in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, an international legal response was sculpted in the corridors of the UN Security Council, NATO, and the US Congress. This...

Trial by fury?: The fallacy of Bush's Military Tribunals. (International Law).
March 22, 2002... The immediate and rightful response of the United States to the atrocity of September 11 was to demand "justice," although that word sounded in many powerful mouths like a lynch mob's cry for summary execution, assassination squads, and Osama...

Food for thought: Intellectual Property Rights, food, and biodiversity. (International Law).
March 22, 2002... Conflict over property--such as land, gold, or oil--is nothing new. But today an in tangible kind of property invented in the legal system of the Western world is becoming as valuable and contested as the tangible property of old. Intellectual...

Asylum for all: Refugee protection in the 21st Century. (International Law).
March 22, 2002... The horrific September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States have wrought serious collateral damage on an unexpected target: global attitudes towards refugees and asylum-seekers. Since the attacks, some countries have curtailed their...

The future of law: Protecting the rights of Civilians. (International Law).
March 22, 2002... Throughout world history, the principal threat to international peace and security has been "war"--the threat that the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and the United Nations sought, but failed, to prevent. Traditionally, war has...

The root of all evil: The economics of Civil Wars. (Review Essays).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... The point that economic factors matter in war is not new and has been proven in conflicts past and present. In the edited volume Greed and Grievance, Mats Berdal and David Malone stress that wars need to be understood in terms of their...

From the front lines: Journalism in Times of War. (Review Essays).
March 22, 2002... Originally published in 1975, The First Casualty became an instant classic by bringing alive the idea that news matters. The book attempted to describe how the news reporters report is contested, manipulated, and sometimes fabricated by parties...

Reporting the World: Challenges for US Media. (Interview).(Rick Kaplan)
March 22, 2002... Rick Kaplan was president of CNN-US from 1997 to 2000. During that time, he was responsible for all of CNN's news programming, and under his guidance, CNN made strides in its analysis and coverage of both breaking and ongoing stories. Prior to...

Another Hundred Years of Solitude?: Latin America after September 11. (End Paper).(Brief Article)
March 22, 2002... Latin America may become an unintended casualty of September 11. Before the terrorist attacks, US policy-makers were warming toward their hemispheric neighbors. The meeting between US President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox...