February 18, 2004
Helping Haiti
The Background on the News feature of www.foreignaffairs.org makes available the full text of past essays that are newly relevant today, plus fresh postscripts by the authors.
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The Reluctant Imperialist
February 18, 2004
The current uprising against Jean-Bertrand Aristide is more than a political crisis in a country with weak democratic traditions. It's the latest symptom of Haiti's pathological inability to break the cycle of poverty and violence within its borders. In an article written for Foreign Affairs two years ago, Sebastian Mallaby explains how powerful and stable states like the United States could — and should — help states that repeatedly teeter on the brink of collapse.
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Previously in Background on the News
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Putin's Chechen Problem
February 11, 2004
According to the Russian government, the Moscow subway bombing that killed 39 commuters last week was the work of Chechen insurgents—something the rebels themselves deny. The attack is a stark reminder that Vladimir Putin, too, is struggling to quell terrorism as Russia's presidential elections near. . . . Read more
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Trouble in Tehran
January 27, 2004
This month, Iran's conservative Council of Guardians banned hundreds of candidates from running in next month's parliamentary race, fueling long-standing tensions between stalwart clerics and reformists. . . . Read more
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In the Next Issue of Foreign Affairs
On newsstands starting March 3, 2004
- Andrei Schleifer and Daniel Treisman on Russia's economic and social progress
- David Makovsky on the case for Israel's big fence
- Robert Kagan on how the Unites States should repair the transatlantic rift
- Michael Swaine on curbing Taiwan's imprudence
Plus: Georgia's rose revolution, the Pentagon's unwise use of special forces, foreign economic policy for the next President, and fixing the U.S. military's personnel system.
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In the Current Issue of Foreign Affairs
The complete text of selected essays and of all the book reviews from the January/February issue can be found on the Foreign Affairs Web site. Currently the following essays are available in their full text:
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A Strategy of Partnerships
Colin L. Powell
Pundits claim that U.S. foreign policy is too focused on unilateral preemption. But George W. Bush's vision—enshrined in his 2002 National Security Strategy—is far broader and deeper than that. The president has promoted bold and effective policies to combat terrorism, intervened decisively to prevent regional conflicts, and embraced other major powers such as Russia, China, and India.
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The Saudi Paradox
Michael Scott Doran
Saudi Arabia is in the throes of a crisis, but its elite is bitterly divided on how to escape it. Crown Prince Abdullah leads a camp of liberal reformers seeking rapprochement with the West, while Prince Nayef, the interior minister, sides with an anti-American Wahhabi religious establishment that has much in common with al Qaeda.
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The Law of War in the War on Terror
Kenneth Roth
The Bush administration has literalized its "war" on terrorism, dissolving the legal boundaries between what a government can do in peacetime and what's allowed in war. This move may have made it easier for Washington to detain or kill suspects, but it has also threatened basic due process rights, thereby endangering us all.
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