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 ...
Drunken nation: Russia's depopulation bomb.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... A specter is haunting Russia today. It is not the specter of Communism--that ghost has been chained in the attic of the past--but rather of depopulation--a relentless, unremitting, and perhaps unstoppable depopulation. The mass deaths associated with the Communist era may be history, but ...
Tarnished brass: is the U.S. military profession in decline?(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Nearly twenty years after the end of the Cold War, the American military, financed by more money than the entire rest of the world spends on its armed forces, failed to defeat insurgencies or fully suppress sectarian civil wars in two crucial countries, each with less than a tenth of the ...
Lessons lost: the futility of experience.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Over the course of last year's long-drawn-out presidential primaries, and throughout the general election campaign, the American public heard again and again that the major difference between the candidates was the distinction between "experience" and "change." Obviously, the claim of ...
Freedom's untidy: democracy promotion and its discontents.(The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century)(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... G. John Ikenberry, Thomas J. Knock, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Tony Smith, The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the Twenty-first Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. The scale of the catastrophe in Iraq--hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead ...
Testicular fortitude.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Dear Sir: There needs to be a fundamental understanding that neoconservatives simply are not, and have never really been, conservatives ("Same Old Song," Winter 2009). Their popularity and influence over the last decade have come largely from the fact that the critical topic of ...
No drama Obama.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Dear Sir: If Mr. Hitchens ("Dear Mr. President," Winter 2009) had actual knowledge of or interest in economics he would no doubt be telling President Obama what actions he ought to take to address what is actually the most pressing issue facing the country and the world. But, ...
McMaster of the Universe.(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Dear Sir: H. R. McMaster's treatment of technology and warfare is prescient ("The Human Element," Winter 2009). In general, "system analysis," "game theory," and the like are imprecise science at best--and pseudoscience usually--when applied to human "systems," no matter the ...