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CIAO DATE: 09/03
July/August 2003
Letters
Muslim mores
Neglecting Latin America
Surprise attack
No Manchurian candidates
In Box
Targeting the press
A discriminating education
15 years ago in FP
Think Again
War by Lawrence Freedman
Which represents modern war: The U.S. military unleashing high-tech arsenals to crush a dictator's army or machete-wielding insurgents fighting brutal civil war in Africa? The short answer: both. It's time to reappraise one of humankind's oldest pastimes.
Prime Numbers
A Plague's Bottom Line by Keith Hansen
Two decades into the AIDS crisis, the economic costs of this pandemic are becoming clear.
Essays
Today, some of the United States' critics wax nostalgic about Bill Clinton, forgetting that they derided him during his presidency's early years as inexperienced and indecisive. Will the world learn to love President George W. Bush? FP asks nine noted contributors to grade Bush and interpret how he's seen in their corners of the globe.
Rogue State Department by Newt Gingrich
Anti-Americanism is spreading around the globe because the U.S. State Department has abdicated principles in favor of passivity. Only a top-to-bottom culture shock will help the State Department promote freedom, combat tyranny, and effectively communicate U.S. values to the rest of the world.
From Victory to Success: Afterwar Policy in Iraq
Did the war on Iraq curb terrorism, intimidate dictators, and set a precedent for dealing with weapons of mass destruction? Or just the opposite? A wide-ranging special report on 12 of the most pressing postwar issues by the associates of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Can India Overtake China? by Yasheng Huang and Tarun Khanna
China believes foreign direct investment is the fastest route to economic development. But India's reliance on homegrown entrepreneurship may put that country in a position to catch up with, and possibly surpass, its northern neighbor. India, not China, is the rising economic power to watch.
The Compulsive Empire by Robert Jervis
Worried about U.S. power run amok? Fine—just don't blame George W. Bush, September 11, or some neoconservative cabal. Nations enjoying unrivaled power invariably redefine their interests in expansive, global terms, argues the former president of the American Political Science Association. Resisting this mission creep is the United States' greatest challenge.
Between the Lines
Road Map to Nowhere? by Daoud Kuttab
The latest peace plan to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is as vague as it is ambitious.
Arguments
Mars Needs Millionaires by Martin Rees
Future space exploration should be left to rich thrill seekers.
Pests and Pestilence by Fred Pearce
Why humans are more vulnerable than ever to animal-borne diseases.
Addicted to Failure by Ethan Nadelmann
It's time for Latin America to start breaking with Washington over the war on drugs.
Reviews
In Other Words
Did the Polish Catholic Church commune with communism? by Jaroslaw Anders
Why the European left loves talking to itself. by Christopher Hitchens
Global Newsstand
Tiny technologies raise big dilemmas by G. Pascal Zachary
Treaty negotiators have some unresolved issues
The British and Germans fight over the football
Swedes love NATO, they love it not.
Net Effect
Online auctioning's global black market by Brendan I. Koerner
Betting on the Web at the World Trade Organization by Max Pappas
Missing Links
Cheap Dollar Diplomacy by Moisés Naím
Worries about U.S.-European estrangement overlook the real threat: the falling U.S. dollar.