Harvard International Review back issues from June 2005:
Learning to optimize.(CORRESPONDENCE)(Medical economics )
Jun 22, 2005; ... Alistair McGuire and Victoria Serra correctly argue in "The Cost of Care: Is There an Optimal Level of Expenditure?" (Spring 2005) that taking an economic perspective helps us to consider whether a country's health spending is optimal and efficient. But it is important to focus on the ...
A shallow glimpse.(CORRESPONDENCE)(for Mexico)
Jun 22, 2005; ... In "Running After a Fallen Fox" (Spring 2005), author George W. Grayson provides an unbalanced description of Mexico and the administration of Mexican President Vicente Fox. The text pinpoints only certain aspects of Fox's performance, ignoring some significant achievements and ...
Line in the sand: the Ethio-Eritrean border.(AFRICA)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Given the conflict in Iraq and the unfolding of genocide in Sudan, perhaps it should not be surprising that renewed hostilities between Ethiopia and Eritrea have failed to attract any meaningful international attention. Yet this conflict, which has flared up once again after four years of ...
Clash of clans: challenges to Somali government.(AFRICA)
Jun 22, 2005; ... On October 1, 2004, Somalia's newly established 275-member Parliament elected the country's 14th president, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed. Though Somalis and members of the international community hope that this new administration will bring peace to a region where intra-clan warfare has caused ...
Under the fence: US-Mexican immigration issues.(AMERICAS)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Over the past decade, tension at the US-Mexican border has heightened as an enormous influx of Mexicans has entered the southwestern United States. According to a study conducted by Mexico's National Population Council (CONAPO) in 2001, an estimated 3.5 to 5 million Mexican immigrants ...
Election angst: Indonesia's tough transitions.(ASIA PACIFIC)
Jun 22, 2005; ... On September 20, 2004, Indonesia held its first direct presidential election in which former General Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono defeated incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri by a landslide margin of 60.6 percent to 39.4 percent. While many expected the landmark election to be prime ground for ...
Military mayhem: the decline in Japanese pacifism.(ASIA PACIFIC)
Jun 22, 2005; ... The end of the Cold War hailed an era of uncertainty over Japan's political and economic future. A receding economy, coupled with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) fall from dominance in 1993, greatly dampened the pride and confidence of the Japanese people in the 1990s. Current ...
Nixing the news: Iranian Internet censorship.(MIDDLE EAST)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Illegal suppression of the press in Iran is nothing new, as the government has been shutting down reformist papers for years. What is new, however, is the recent extension of the crackdown from newspapers to Internet sites and weblogs. The Internet, previously the sole refuge for activist, ...
End of terrorism? ETA and the efforts for peace.(Euskadi Ta Askatasuna)
Jun 22, 2005; ... A nationalist hard-line party of the Basque region, which consists of northern Spain and parts of southwestern France, has asserted Basque independence for the past 40 years. This party, known as Batasuna or Sozialista Abertzaleak, has been fighting for the autonomy of three of northern ...
Toward a new consensus: answering the dangers of globalization.(PERSPECTIVES)
Jun 22, 2005; ... We live in a world of "overlapping communities of fate." Everyday life--work, money, beliefs, as well as trade, communications, finance, and the environment--connects us all with increasing intensity. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The word for this phenomenon is ...
The single greatest threat: the United States and global climate disruption.(PERSPECTIVES)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Climate change--or better, climate disruption--is the single greatest threat that societies face today. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In 1979, the administration of US President Jimmy Carter asked the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to assess the scientific basis for ...
Joining the global village: Taiwan's participation in the international community.(PERSPECTIVES)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Democratic reform in Taiwan, which has been praised as a "quiet revolution," has transformed Taiwan from an authoritarian regime into a democracy in which human rights and the rule of law are honored. Taiwan has been listed by the New York-based Freedom House as one of the 89 free ...
A man on a mission: Chilean President Ricardo Lagos's health reform plan.(WORLD IN REVIEW)
Jun 22, 2005; ... In a speech delivered at the Government Palace just months after being elected President of Chile, Ricardo Lagos laid out his vision for his six years in office. "If we all work together," he proclaimed, "we shall be able to take a better look at our future and be able to think that we ...
The road to recognition: a global perspective on gay marriage.(WORLD IN REVIEW)(Danish Registered Partnership Act)(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2005; ... In the previous half century the world witnessed dramatic cultural upheavals. Factions of the right and left fought many political battles pitting traditionalism against progressivism, each side arguing for its vision of a virtuous society in the changing cultural landscape. The emerging ...
Mending NATO: sustaining the transatlantic relationship.(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Jun 22, 2005; ... In a recent interview with a reporter from Le Monde, Chancellor Gerhard Schroder pointed out that NATO is "no longer the primary means for dialogue in the transatlantic relationship." While this is hardly surprising in a contemporary context, it would surely have shocked the US and ...
Stalin's joke.(more than might? DEFINING POWER)(Josef Stalin French Foreign Minister)(Column)
Jun 22, 2005 ... When the French Foreign Minister suggested the USSR might placate the Pope by tolerating Catholicism, Josef Stalin famously quipped, "The Pope? How many divisions has he got?" It is an irony of history that the figure whose weakness Stalin scorned helped to catalyze the fall of his empire ....
People power primed: civilian resistance and democratization.(more than might? DEFINING POWER)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Tisovets, a popular ski resort in the Carpathian Mountains, is a tiring four-hour drive in a four-wheel-drive from Lviv. The journey was exceptionally challenging for Ukraine's newly elected president, Viktor Yushchenko, and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. Meeting there on January ...
Abuse of power: assessing accountability in world politics.(more than might? DEFINING POWER)(Column)
Jun 22, 2005; ... We read all the time that some person or organization in power should be "held accountable." Such demands are made on the UN Secretary-General, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Board of Directors of Enron, the President of the United States, and sometimes even non-governmental ...
Measuring power: how to predict future balances.(more than might? DEFINING POWER)
Jun 22, 2005; ... Power is an elusive concept. As the political scientist Hans Morgenthau wrote, "The concept of political power poses one of the most difficult and controversial problems of political science." Understanding the nature of power has long been central to the study of international relations ...
The disarmament debate: the fate of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.(Interview)
Jun 22, 2005 ... What is the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP) and what are its major goals for international arms control? The LCNP is a research and advocacy organization in New York City. It was formed by lawyers and academics in the early 1980s at the height of concern about the ...
Strategic interactions: Edward Bradfield reviews how the weak win wars.
Jun 22, 2005; ... With the US military currently engaged in armed conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, Ivan Arreguin-Toft's How the Weak Win Wars is a timely contribution to the ongoing debate over US defense strategy in the post-September 11 security environment. The book is comprised of three major sections ....
The Sinatra Doctrine: Jeremy Jones reviews waging nonviolent struggle.(Waging Nonviolent Struggle by Gene Sharp)(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2005; ... At the height of the European revolutions of 1989, the Soviet Foreign Affairs spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov, in an allusion to US President Ronald Reagan's old friend, enunciated the Sinatra Doctrine. Eastern European states were to "do it their way," without hindrance from the Soviet Union, ...
A long journey to peace: the dispute in the Republic of Cyprus.
Jun 22, 2005; ... The Republic of Cyprus joined the European Union as a full member on May 1, 2004 in the midst of jubilation among the Greek Cypriot population. The event confirmed the place of the Republic in the European family of states and created great prospects for the political influence of Cyprus's ...