Recently added articles from Harvard International Review:
Letter from the editors.(Editorial)
Mar 22, 2009; ... What does "modern war" entail? The end of the Cold War signalled a shift--at least temporarily--away from territorial conflicts between large states and towards smaller, messier forms of warfare. US counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan typifies one emergent model of conflict--"small ...
Politics, please.(CORRESPONDENCE)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Nicolas de Torrente and Fabrice Weissman ("A War Without Limits," Winter 2008) insightfully document international complicity in Somalia's recent suffering. The piece leaves the reader incensed at our collective failure but uncomfortably bereft of a way forward. The dilemma is not ...
Reconsidering SDRs.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Special Drawing Rights)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The current global financial crisis has unsurprisingly intensified calls to reform the governance of the International Monetary Fund. Richard Cooper's article, "Necessary Reform: The IMF and International Financial Architecture" (Winter 2008), parallels Chinese Governor Zhou Xiaochuan's ...
Seeds of discontent: politics and Argentine agriculture.(AMERICAS)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Soybeans grown by the ton in Argentina's expansive farmland represent a substantial part of that nation's export market. Herds of cattle bred and fed in the vast pampas make the country famous for its high-quality beef. But for President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her husband, ...
Failing the state: recognizing Somaliland.(AFRICA)
Mar 22, 2009; ... As nations across Africa struggle to maintain law and order, the international community has forsaken one of Africa's most promising states. Somaliland announced its independence from Somalia in 1991, seizing its opportunity during a power vacuum in Mogadishu. A stable democracy, it ...
Pressing for change: journalistic freedom in Russia.(EUROPE)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Following his decisive electoral victory in March 2008, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev vigorously affirmed his intent to protect freedom of the press in the Russian Federation, arguing that independent media provided a crucial channel of communication between society and the state. The ...
Womb for rent: India's commercial surrogacy.(ASIA)
Mar 22, 2009; ... As one of the world's leading outsourcing destinations, India capitalizes on its comparative advantages to play host to a variety of foreign service sectors. Bu t in addition to attracting commonplace jobs such as information technology (IT) services, India in recent years has seen a ...
A tightrope act: Jordan's turmoil after Gaza.(MIDDLE EAST)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In December 2008, as televisions worldwide lit up with footage from the Israeli assault on Gaza, protestors next door in Amman, Jordan shouted their support for Hamas, their opposition to Fatah, and their frustration with conciliatory Arab regimes. The sentiments were not new, but the fact ...
Winning the fight: eradicating slavery in the modern age.(PERSPECTIVES)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The money in Ghana has always been down on the coast. Poor religious and tribal minorities live in the North, where Ibrahim was born. Orphaned at the age of nine, Ibrahim set off with his uncle in search of work. They followed rumors to the gold mines in Ashanti state, expecting to be paid ...
The EU Reflection Group: learning from the past.(Viewpoint essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The rapidly changing, globalized world never ceases to both surprise and catch us unawares. The world economical crisis that started out as a financial crisis in the United States, however, has done more than that. As it continues worsening each day, it is spreading waves of shock, ...
Faith and fragile states: why the development community needs religion.(PERSPECTIVES)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Once upon a time most social scientists assumed that the global march of political and economic modernization would relegate religion to a purely spiritual domain. Few, therefore, contemplated religion's ability to influence the ways in which societies evolve. The advent of theocrats in ...
South Africa's ANC split: end of an era?(WORLD IN REVIEWrsouth africa)(African National Congress)(Congress of the People)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Is South Africa leaving the era of Nelson Mandela? After the country's 14 years of de facto single party rule under the African National Congress (ANC), the party of Mandela and of liberation has experienced serious internal divisions over leadership personality, alleged corruption, and ...
Unity under siege: the European Single Market after the financial crisis.(WORLD IN REVIEW)
Mar 22, 2009; ... As Europe's leaders respond to the financial crisis, concerns of economic protectionism are leading to greater questions over the fundamental unity of the European Union. At risk is the European Single Market, which, though less prominent than the symbolic euro, is the true basis for unity ...
Demystifying defense: exposing myths about US military expenditures.(FEATURES)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The most serious impediments to a serious discussion of defense spending are the myths that surround it. Until these myths are cleared away, no rational debate regarding what the United States and its allies around the world should do to secure their interests is possible. The most urgent ...
US nuclear policy: the open window for transformation.(FEATURES)
Mar 22, 2009; ... It is often said that the world is at a nuclear tipping point. By this, analysts mean that the policy choices we make over the next few years may determine if we tip over into nuclear catastrophe or pull back from the various brinks on which we now teeter. Those who thought talk of nuclear ...
NATO'S future: facing old divisions and new threats.(FEATURES)(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Mar 22, 2009; ... NATO has much to celebrate in the year of its 60th anniversary. In the twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, NATO has incorporated much of Central and Eastern Europe into its membership. It responded to the threat that emerged on September 11, 2001 and sent ...
Counterinsurgency: lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan.(FEATURES)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Before the US interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the subsequent outbreak of insurgencies in those countries, counterinsurgency was a badly neglected part of the US defense establishment's security repertoire. During the 1990s, civilian leaders, academic specialists, and the officer ...
On liberty: detention in new forms of armed conflict.(FEATURES)
Mar 22, 2009; ... On September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda operatives attacked civilian and military targets on US territory, causing thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in economic loss. On September 12, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1368 characterizing the attack by Al ...
The vanishing law of war reflections on law and war in the 21st century.(FEATURES)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In 1952, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, then the Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge, opined in the British Yearbook of International Law that "if international law is the vanishing point of law, the law of war is at the vanishing point of international law." The ...
Freedom house presents ... civil society under threat bureaucratic strategies of the new authoritarians.(SPOTLIGHT)
Mar 22, 2009; ... After several decades of consistent progress, the state of global freedom has entered a period of stagnation and possibly even decline. The reasons for recent setbacks to liberty are numerous and complex. However, to a significant degree, the reversal in freedom of association can be ...