November/December Issue Now Online
October 22, 2009
The November/December issue of Foreign Affairs is now online and on newsstands October 27th. In this issue:
C. Fred Bergsten, the director of the Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics, writes that the international role of the dollar hurts U.S. competitiveness and that it is time to reorder the world's currency system.
Georgetown's Keir A. Lieber and Dartmouth's Daryl G. Press advise the Obama administration to retain significant nuclear capabilities -- or risk basing U.S. nuclear deterrence on a dangerous bluff.
Wesley K. Clark, former supreme commander of NATO, and Peter L. Levin, formerly the CEO of the cybersecurity company DAFCA, write on the need to secure U.S. computer networks, software, and hardware from cyberterrorism.
Mitchel B. Wallerstein, the dean of the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, urges policymakers to abandon export restrictions on advanced technology, which only make U.S. businesses less competitive and the country less secure.
CFR's Bronwyn Bruton writes that the United States missunderstands the terrorist threat posed by Somalia and is only exacerbating the situation by supporting the Transitional Federal Government.
And the University of Virginia's Philip Zelikow commemorates the 20th anniversary of the revolutions of 1989 and reexamines their root cause.
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