Recently added articles from World Affairs:
A letter from the editor.
Mar 22, 2009; ... In Ian McEwan's Saturday, the complacent protagonist wonders at the Western metropolis around him--"millions teeming around the accumulated and layered achievements of the centuries, as though around a coral reef, sleeping, working, entertaining themselves, harmonious for the most part, ...
Dear Mr. President ...(Barack Obama)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Your administration has just begun to walk on dry land. Take that statement any way you like. E.g., your ideas are evolving and only now have emerged from the primordial sea of campaign ooze. Or, e.g., it is time for you to get real and quit walking on water. Anyway, we don't ...
Life on Venus: Europe's last man.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... There are not many moments in history when it is possible to worry that the world has become too happy for its own good. One such moment came in Europe during the late nineteenth century, when the Napoleonic Wars had receded into the distance and the First World War was still hidden over ...
Case closed: a prosecutor without borders.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Eleven years ago, celebrating the creation of the world's first permanent International Criminal Court, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan spoke of "a gift of hope to future generations, and a giant step forward in the march towards universal human rights and the rule of law." Reflecting on ...
Not so huddled masses: multiculturalism and foreign policy.
Mar 22, 2009; ... The modest contemporary literature on the connection between America's immigration and foreign policies contains this assertion by Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan, from the introduction to their 1974 volume Ethnicity: Theory and Experience. "The immigration process is the single most ...