June 9, 2004
Remembering Tiananmen
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 Tiananmen Papers
June 9, 2004
While tens of thousands held a vigil in Hong Kong last week to mark the 15th anniversary of the crackdown, only handfuls were allowed to gather in Beijing. The disparity suggests that, despite significant liberalization over the past decade, China's communist government is still intent on containing the development of democracy, especially free speech. On this occasion, Foreign Affairs is rereleasing secret papers it first published three years ago that detail how and why a divided Chinese leadership decided to crush the student protests in 1989.
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Previously in Background on the News
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The End of the Chalabi Affair?
May 26, 2004
With the dramatic raid on Ahmed Chalabi's Baghdad headquarters last week, the Bush administration's long-running affair with the controversial Iraqi exile leader may finally have ended. . . . Read more
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Not So Cheap
May 26, 2004
Despite Saudi Arabia's recent vows to step up its oil production, world oil prices are still flirting with record highs, prompting jitters over global economic recovery. . . . Read more
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Surprise, Security, and the American Experience
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September 11th, Gaddis argues, was not the first time a surprise attack shattered American assumptions about national security and reshaped American grand strategy. We've been there before, and have responded each time by dramatically expanding our security responsibilities. How successful our current strategies will be in the face of twenty-first-century challenges is the question that now confronts us. This provocative book is one of the first attempts by a major scholar of international relations to provide an answer.
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In the Next Issue of Foreign Affairs
On newsstands starting June 29, 2004
- Nancy Birdsall and Arvind Subramanian on Iraq, oil, and democratic development;
- George Lopez and David Cortright on the overlooked success of the U.N. sanctions and weapons inspection regimes in Iraq;
- Foreign Affairs editor James Hoge on Asia's growing power;
- George Gilboy on why the United States need not fear China's economic development.
Plus: Ex-Baathists and post-war Iraq, moving beyond the Kyoto Protocol, foreign policy for a Republican President, and re-thinking the "Washington Consensus."
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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 May/June issue can be found on the Foreign Affairs Web site. Currently the following essays are available in their full text:
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The Outsourcing Bogeyman
Daniel W. Drezner
According to the election-year bluster of politicians and pundits, the outsourcing of American jobs to other countries has become a problem of epic proportion. Fortunately, this alarmism is misguided. Outsourcing actually brings far more benefits than costs, both now and in the long run. If its critics succeed in provoking a new wave of American protectionism, the consequences will be disastrous — for the U.S. economy and for the American workers they claim to defend.
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Foreign Policy for a Democratic President
Samuel R. Berger
By stressing unilateralism over cooperation, preemption over prevention, and firepower over staying power, the Bush administration has alienated the United States' natural allies and disengaged from many of the world's most pressing problems. To restore U.S. global standing — which is essential in checking the spread of lethal weapons and winning the war on terrorism — the next Democratic president must recognize the obvious: that means are as important as ends.
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Native Son: Samuel Huntington Defends the Homeland
Alan Wolfe
In Who Are We?, Samuel Huntington turns his formidable intellect to the challenges posed by immigration. Unfortunately, he has abandoned the clear-eyed realism of his past work in favor of disdainful moralism, whipping up nativist hysteria instead of offering real solutions.
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