Michael Hirsh
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2003
Essay
Sep/Oct
2002
George W. Bush experienced the terrible new reality of terrorism on September 11 as directly and emotionally as did any other American. The difference was that he could do something about it. Days after the attacks, the president first gave voice to his doctrine: you are either with us, or with the terrorists. But one year later, there is little clarity about the direction of U.S. foreign policy. To fight terrorism and protect U.S. interests and ideals, the only practical solution is to bolster the international community that the United States helped create.
Review Essay
Nov/Dec
2001
David Halberstam's latest book describes the impossible job of the American president in the late 1990s: trying to hold together the international order while governing a complacent country with little interest in the outside world.
Comment
Nov/Dec
2000
A new, hybrid form of peacekeeping is on the rise: regional interventions backed by the U.N. This solution may not be pretty, but unlike U.N. missions, it works.
Comment
Nov/Dec
1999
East Timor and Kosovo highlighted the United Nations' growing importance. So why is Washington marginalizing, bankrupting, and scapegoating the world body?
Comment
Sep/Oct
1998
In its recent decision to ban satellite sales to China, Congress has failed to recognize that dual-use exports are now vital to America's technological edge.
Comment
Mar/Apr
1997
High growth in postwar Japan depended on shared sacrifice. Today Japan's multinationals go wherever profits take them, while consumers demand more.
