Recently added articles from World Policy Journal:
Dear Mr. President.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Cover story)
Dec 22, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The celebrations are finished, for the moment, from the Champs Elysees and the plains of Kenya to Tokyo's Ginza. By noon on the last day of April 2009, America's forty-fourth president will have been in office for 100 days. Without question, it will be ...
How to save the world.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Dear Mr. President: By now, you are painfully aware of the gravity of the economic crisis you will soon inherit. It is clear that this is no ordinary business-cycle downturn. The crisis is the product of the bursting of one of the largest credit and asset bubbles in modern financial ...
Striking the balance: the way forward in Iraq.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Late in the presidential race, after Senator John McCain suspended his campaign in the wake of the financial crisis, Senator Barack Obama remarked, "A president has to be able to do more than one thing at a time." Indeed, an administration's ability to balance competing demands is ...
Rethinking U.S. policy in Afghanistan.
Dec 22, 2008; ... On a recent trip to southern Afghanistan, I befriended a jovial security guard while waiting for an interview with Kandahar's provincial governor. The guard invited me to visit an "important friend" whom he thought I would be pleased to meet. "My friend is a malik," he proclaimed proudly, ...
Imagining counterterrorism's future.
Dec 22, 2008; ... The early autumn sun was bright in a cloudless sky as the shuttle bus turned sharply into the Maclean, Virginia, headquarters of the MITRE Corporation. Hidden away on a sprawling campus strategically close to both Langley (Central Intelligence Agency headquarters) and Dulles airport, ...
Fighting pirates: the pen and the sword.
Dec 22, 2008; ... The seizure by Somali pirates on September 25, 2008, of the Faina, a Ukrainian-flagged vessel transporting 33 Russian tanks and depleted uranium ammunition to Kenya for consignment delivery to the Sudan People's Liberation Army was startling in its audacity and haul. Even more alarming, ...
The battle for Africa's hearts and minds.
Dec 22, 2008; ... It was a typical April evening in Ethiopia's capital as I gazed from my hotel room window at the scene below. Shop owners were locking up for the night, people were hurrying home for the evening meal, and the streets were crowded with vehicles of all shapes, sizes, and degrees of road ...
To Russia with love: a plea for normalcy.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Dear Mr. President, allow me to congratulate you on your historic victory. As a fellow alumnus of Honolulu's Punahou School (1948) and New York's Columbia College (1954), I share the pride of all your fellow alumni. You have promised the American people "hope" and "change." One ...
North Korea: 20 years of solitude.
Dec 22, 2008; ... With the American people thirsting for a new foreign policy, transcending the aggrieved, insular doctrines of "regime change," "pre-emptive war" and the "global war on terror," a breakthrough might be found in a most unlikely place--the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. North Korea's ...
Your dreams are our dreams, too.(United States-China relations)
Dec 22, 2008; ... BEIJING -- Dear Mr. President: If your campaign is what you have led us all to believe, then you will understand when I say that you may be the first president of the United States who has the potential finally to bring an end to the misunderstandings and biases laid upon our two great ...
Engaging Cuba: a roadmap.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Three months into President Barack Obama's new administration, the Fifth Summit of the Americas in April 2009 will offer him the perfect forum to present his plan for a "new partnership" in the Americas. Although Cuba will not be at the top of that agenda, there are good reasons for him to ...
Obama & Latin America: magic or realism?
Dec 22, 2008; ... Latin America and the Caribbean are no exception to the all but universal global applause for the election of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth president of the United States. The 33 developing countries of the Western Hemisphere broadly welcomed Obama's election to the White House. Indeed, ...
A new administration and the UN.
Dec 22, 2008; ... Among the innumerable issues the Obama administration in Washington will have to deal with--very rapidly--is the question of how to engage with the globe's most important security organization, the United Nations. As a much-maligned body under the Bush Administration, the UN has only ...
U.S. & Europe: partnership of equals.
Dec 22, 2008; ... BERLIN -- When the best and brightest of the U.S. foreign policy community think about United States-Europe relations, they reflexively designate the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as the institution for transatlantic cooperation. These scholars, diplomats, and politicians--from ...
Bootstrapping trade.
Dec 22, 2008; ... As the incoming Obama administration examines various bailout proposals and stimulus plans to lift the American and global economies, the crucial role of international trade must be addressed. Many of President Obama's supporters, as well as America's trading partners, are looking for an ...
The Southern Supermen.(FOCUS: OUR WORLD IN 25 YEARS)
Dec 22, 2008; ... For the past two centuries, the path followed by the bulk of world trade saw the raw materials of the developing world flowing to the production centers of the "civilized" world and these products flowing back, in a more limited stream, as vastly transformed finished goods found some ...
The near-death of democracy.(RETROSPECTIVE)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Back in 1992, I argued that two seemingly antithetical developments--the globalization and centralization of the market economy under the aegis of the American consumer monolith ("McWorld"), and the fracturing and re-tribalizing of nation states in favor of anti-modern religious and ...
China's heritage on the old Silk Road.(PORTFOLIO)
Dec 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DUNHUANG, CHINA -- The pre-dawn sky was still dark. In a second I would reach the point of no return. Should I jump off my camel now or hang on for dear life? I could hear the groans of my fellow riders as their two-humped Bactrian camels grunted and rose, ...
Guatemala's death rattle: drugs vs. democracy.(REPORTAGE)
Dec 22, 2008; ... MORALES, GUATEMALA -- With shops selling expensive leather saddles and men in cowboy hats strutting through its lanes, this town of 50,000 in Guatemala's eastern department of Izabal has long been the heartland of the country's cattle-raising and farming industries. Situated on a flat ...
100 days of awe.(CODA)
Dec 22, 2008; ... On March 22, 1981, I watched as Francois Mitterrand was inaugurated as the first socialist president under France's Fifth Republic--the spiritual heir to Leon Blum, who ran the Front Populaire for one remarkable year in the depths of the Great Depression. It was an extraordinary day. One ...