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CIAO DATE: 08/02
July/August 2002
Letters
Morality play
Fists across the water
Saddam truths
In Box
Strategic consistency
Budget busters
Think Again
Yasir Arafat by Dennis B. Ross
As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict enters a tenuous new phase of negotiations, understanding Arafat's true motives will be essential to reaching a lasting peace agreement. Who better to decipher them than the man who negotiated with him for the last decade?
Prime Numbers
Hostage, Inc. by Rachel Briggs
Kidnapping is on the rise, but profit rather than politics drives this global trend.
The FP Interview
The World According to Larry
Harvard President and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers "is to modesty what Madonna is to chastity," according to one of his detractors. Maybe, but his résumé is hard to beat. Here, he takes on his critics, offers his views on everything from the global economy to distance learning, and explains how Larry Summers, the academic economist, learned to live with Larry Summers, the public servant.
Essays
The Cartel of Good Intentions by William Easterly
The world's richest governments have pledged to boost financial aid to the developing world. So why won't poor nations reap the benefits? Because in the way stands a bloated, unaccountable foreign aid bureaucracy out of touch with sound economics. The solution: Subject the foreign assistance business to the forces of market competition.
The World's Right to Know by Thomas Blanton
During the last decade, 26 countries have enacted new legislation giving their citizens access to government information. Why? Because the concept of freedom of information is evolving from a moral indictment of secrecy to a tool for market regulation, more efficient government, and economic and technological growth.
The Eagle Has Crash Landed by Immanuel Wallerstein
Pax Americana is over. Challenges from Vietnam and the Balkans to September 11 and the Middle East have revealed the limits of American supremacy. Will the United States fade gracefully, asks one of America's leading leftist thinkers, or will U.S. conservatives resist and thereby turn a gradual decline into a rapid and dangerous fall?
Between the Lines
Havens Can Wait by Daniel Mitchell
Rich countries blame poor ones for creating offshore tax havens, but the true tax evaders bank at home.
Arguments
France's Political Whodunit by Sophie Meunier
What really defeated former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in the French elections was his inability to talk straight on globalization.
Recycling Environmentalism by James Gustave Speth
Talks and treaties have failed to avert environmental destruction predicted two decades ago. It's time for environmentalists to change their tactics.
Reviews
In Other Words
Indonesia's scrappy moderate Muslims by Karim Raslan
Japan gets paranoid about foreign capital by Ayako Doi
Global Newsstand
Soccer clubs go glocal by Richard Giulanotti
China's countryside waits for a mobile phone call
Tony Blair shoulders the white man's burden by Hugo Young
Soldiers wage ethical wars
Corporations rewrite their rulebooks
Net Effect
The Middle East's e-War by Shaazka Beyerle
Even as the Web opens a new front in the Middle East conflict, it also offers a powerful tool for promoting better media coverage and dialogue between bitter enemies.
Missing Links
The New Diaspora by Moisés Naím
New links between émigrés and their home countries are changing politics and economics around the world.