World Policy Journal back issues from March 2001:
Why Do They Kill?(violence in Spain's Basque Country)
Mar 22, 2001; ... The Basque Conflict in Spain Bilbao's brand new airport terminal is a shimmering glass wonder, hung on elliptical arches, something like the rib cage of a whale. This elegant space-age building, designed by one of Spain's hottest architects, Santiago Calatrava, promises visitors ...
The Dilemma of Dirty Money.
Mar 22, 2001; ... Whether protected by the stolid, self-righteous stone frontage on Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse, or secluded off the quais of the Rhone in Geneva, banks make Switzerland. This national myth began more than two centuries ago when Swiss Calvinists sheltered the wealth of the aristocracy fleeing ...
Illusions of the Second Nuclear Age.(dangers of nuclear weapons)
Mar 22, 2001; ... By a perverse paradox, even though the danger of a nuclear calamity--whether by design, accident, or through an act of terror--has grown greater, most of us seem less inclined to talk or even think about it. The Cold War has ended, its ideological fevers have abated, and thus falsely ...
Ending the Nuclear Nightmare.
Mar 22, 2001; ... A Strategy for the Bush Administration In a presidential campaign scarcely distinguished by visionary language, candidate George W. Bush did utter some lofty and generally forgotten words about national security. Russia "is no longer our enemy," he declared last May, and our ...
Eisenhower's Warning.
Mar 22, 2001; ... The Military-industrial Complex Forty Years Later Dwight Eisenhower's presidency is probably better remembered less for what he did than for what he said while heading for the exit. In a nationally televised address on January 17, 1961, only four days before John F. Kennedy's ...
The Fires of Faith in Central Asia.
Mar 22, 2001; ... The salient fact about Central Asia today is that independent statehood was neither coveted nor sought by the region's ruling Communist elites. It was thrust upon them when the Soviet Union broke up in 1991. Thus the region's rulers were suddenly compelled to fabricate a new identity for ...
China's Fledgling Civil Society.
Mar 22, 2001; ... A Force for Democratization? During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush expressed his support for extending permanent normal trade relations to China, characterizing trade as a powerful means of promoting the cause of freedom in China. The United States, he said, must ...
In from the Cold.(relations between the United States and China and Russia)
Mar 22, 2001; ... A New Approach to Relations with Russia and China The ghost of Woodrow Wilson, whose presidency encompassed the whole of the First World War and its immediate aftermath, has haunted world leaders from his day to ours. The message of Wilson's ghost is this: beware of the ...
Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa.
Mar 22, 2001; ... This is an essay about evil. Its setting is Africa. The characters are mostly African, with an American narrator and Americans in supporting roles. The time is the last decade of the twentieth century, post--Cold War. But the questions are timeless and universal: How do evil people ...
Hindu Nationalism Clouds the Face of India.
Mar 22, 2001; ... There is a moment in one of Paul Scott's classic novels of India, The Jewel in the Crown, when an old Rajput princess soon after independence says: "I have a feeling that when it was written into our constitution that we should be a secular state we finally put the lid on our Indian-ness, ...
German Halftime.
Mar 22, 2001; ... Power Hobbles Yesterday's Rebels In the early 1970s, with the radical West German student movement subdued and splintered, Rudi Dutschke, its icon and strategist, realized that neither street protests nor Molotov cocktails nor revolutionary parties were likely to overthrow the ...
Prosecuting Dictators.
Mar 22, 2001; ... International Law and the Pinochet Case International law, so runs a common critique, is imprecise, unenforceable, and irrelevant. Realists have long been skeptical about its usefulness as a constraint on state behavior. In 1987, the political scientists Stephen Haggard and Beth ...
"One Hell of a Gamble".
Mar 22, 2001; ... To speak of "movie history" is to risk an oxymoron. No fabrication is too outlandish, no tale too tall, or liberty too gross, in a genre commonly concocted by the uncaring to amuse the gullible. A prime American specimen last year was U-571, a submarine epic inspired by the British Navy's ...