Tuesday October 21, 2003
China Takes Off
On newsstands November 4, the November/December 2003 issue of Foreign Affairs examines China's new diplomatic maturity and its gathering economic strength.
The complete text of selected essays and all the book reviews from this issue are available on the Foreign Affairs Web site. You may still receive this issue by mail if you subscribe to Foreign Affairs by November 30, 2003.
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That Was Then: Allen W. Dulles on the Occupation of Germany
Allen W. Dulles
U.S. troops on conquered territory, infrastructure in ruins, international squabbling over reconstruction: a window onto occupied Germany seven months after V-E Day, when progress was still unsteady and Europe's future hung in the balance. FULL TEXT
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The Privatization of Foreign Aid: Reassessing National Largesse
Carole C. Adelman
Critics have long derided the U.S. government for stinginess in international giving. But such charges miss the point. Today, it is private funds that make the difference in poor countries, and here the United States leads the pack. 500-WORD PREVIEW
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The Case for Cultural Diplomacy: Engaging Foreign Audiences
Helena K. Finn
To fight foreign extremism, Washington must remember that winning hearts and minds is just as important as battlefield victories. 500-WORD PREVIEW
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China's New Diplomacy
Evan S. Medeiros and M. Taylor Fravel
The recent crisis over North Korea's nuclear weapons has had at least one unexpected aspect: the crucial—and highly effective—intervention of Beijing. FULL TEXT
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China Takes Off
David Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale
China has achieved stunning economic progress since the 1970s, thanks to aggressive liberalization, a commitment to exporting high-tech goods, and a massive injection of foreign investment. 500-WORD PREVIEW
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NEW FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
 Annual Volume of The Military Balance Available in October!
The Military Balance
2003-2004
The Military Balance is an essential resource for those involved in security policymaking, analysis, and research. Compiled annually by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, it authoritatively assesses the military capabilities and defense economics of nearly 170 countries. There are detailed country-by-country entries, which list their military organization, personnel, weapons and equipment holdings, and relevant economic and demographic data.
Other journals published on behalf of the IISS include The Adelphi Papers, Strategic Survey, and Survival.
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Should Hezbollah Be Next?
Daniel Byman
The radical Lebanese Shi'ite movement Hezbollah is fomenting violence in post-war Iraq and fanning the flames of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Its bloody track record makes it a natural target in the war on terror. But Washington's only option is to confront Hezbollah indirectly: by getting its backers, Syria and Iran, to help change its focus from militancy to politics. 500-WORD PREVIEW
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Reinventing the West
Dominique Moïsi
During the Cold War, the ever-present Soviet threat helped keep the West united. More recently, however, attempts to mend the transatlantic rift by pointing to present dangers have only deepened the cultural divide. 500-WORD PREVIEW
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Japan's New Nationalism
Eugene A. Matthews
Ever since World War II, the slightest sign of nationalism in Japan has been widely denounced, at home and abroad. Recently, however, discussions that were once taboo—including whether to rearm or even develop nuclear weapons—have moved into the Japanese mainstream. 500-WORD PREVIEW
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America's Imperial Dilemma
Dimitri K. Simes
The United States increasingly looks, walks, and talks like an empire. It should therefore heed the lessons of its predecessors, exercising strong and determined global leadership. 500-WORD PREVIEW
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The Next Prize
Daniel Yergin and Michael Stoppard
The emerging global market in natural gas has the potential to meet rising demand for electricity worldwide. The United States' own gas supplies are dwindling, but elsewhere vast, unexploited resources are becoming ever more accessible. 500-WORD PREVIEW
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The Baby Trade
Ethan B. Kapstein
The international adoption trade is booming, as more families in the West adopt more babies from developing countries. But it has spawned a sordid black market as well, in which children are bought or abducted and sold. 500-WORD PREVIEW
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Clinton's Strong Defense Legacy
Michael O'Hanlon
Conventional wisdom holds that Bill Clinton presided over a disastrous downsizing of the U.S. military. But this claim is wrong. 500-WORD PREVIEW
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Being Yasir Arafat: A Portrait of Palestine's President
Glenn E. Robinson
Two Israeli studies of the polarizing Palestinian leader don't shed much light on their subject. But they do make clear why his time may be past. FULL TEXT
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Remaking the World: Bush and the Neoconservatives
Joshua Micah Marshall
Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay take stock of the Bush revolution in foreign affairs. The neocons have been running the show—and we're all now paying the price. FULL TEXT
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The Other 9/11: The United States and Chile, 1973
Kenneth Maxwell
Thirty years after the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile, The Pinochet File, a "dossier" of declassified documents, lays out the true U.S. role. FULL TEXT
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