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CIAO DATE: 04/03
March/April 2003
Letters
Bush as strategist
A cumbersome gap
Lomborg’s limits
In Box
Busting Bob Woodward
Unmasking NGOs
Measuring democracy
Voting for the International Monetary Fund
Think Again
Latin America by Carlos Lozada
Is Latin America running out of chances? No miracle cure—from privatization to property rights, from democracy to dollarization—has ended the region’s economic and political turmoil. With only token attention from a distracted United States, Latin leaders must find homegrown solutions. One place to start: more economic reform, not less, and less rule of law, not more.
Prime Numbers
The Last Extinction? by Norman Myers and Stuart Pimm
Without a big boost in conservation, almost half of all species may vanish this century—the biggest mass extinction since the dinosaurs dropped dead 65 million years ago.
Cover Story
The Terrorist Notebooks by Martha Brill Olcott and Bakhtiyar Babajanov
During the mid-1990s, a group of young Uzbeks went to school to learn how to kill you. Now, in an FP exclusive, their newly discovered notebooks illuminate the methods and mind-set of Islamic terrorists in Central Asia and the challenges facing policymakers in the war on terrorism.
Essays
Dot Com for Dictators by Shanthi Kalathil
Heroic tales of cyberdissidents battling censors feed the idea that the Internet can topple tyrants. But if democracy advocates want to spur true change, they must recognize the Net’s ability to challenge authoritarianism from within.
George W. Bush’s policies on North Korea and Iraq are under fire, and his approval ratings are falling. What’s the Democratic alternative? FP asked several Democratic candidates for the presidency in 2004 to spell out how their foreign policy vision differs from that of President Bush and that of former President Bill Clinton.
John Edwards | Up to the Challenge
Richard Gephardt | A Renewed Commitment to Global Leadership
John Kerry | Addressing the Democratic Deficit
Joe Lieberman | Responsibility, Opportunity, and Community
The True Clash of Civilizations by Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris
Samuel Huntington was only half right. The cultural fault line dividing the Western and Muslim worlds is not about democracy but sex. According to a new survey, Muslims and Westerners are still worlds apart on gender equality, divorce, abortion, and gay rights—which may bode ill for democracy’s future in the Middle East.
Between the Lines
A Diamond Agreement in the Rough by Holly Burkhalter
Are conflict diamonds forever or will the new Kimberley agreement stop one of the world’s bloodiest trades?
Arguments
Multilateral Meltdown by Mike Moore
The former director of the World Trade Organization calls for another walk in the Bretton Woods.
Europe’s Muslim Street by Omer Taspinar
The continent’s assertive new ethnic lobby spells trouble for trans-Atlantic relations.
Reviews
In Other Words
Gabriel García Márquez lives to tell his truth by Fidel Castro
Germans reexamine wartime sufferings—their own by Robert Gerald Livingston
Global Newsstand
Asia rethinks its intelligence by Dini Djalal
The EU needs a heart
New Zealand preaches foreign policy values
Latin America goes shopping
Europeans protest for more taxes by Verena Ringler
Net Effect
Diplomacy emerges from behind closed doors by Christopher W. Bishop
A hated Irish minority finds some fellow Travellers by Brendan I. Koerner
Satellites make business more green by Denise Kersten
Plus, high-tech international development gurus Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi offer their top Web picks by Dennis Whittle and Mari Kuraishi
Missing Links
A Venezuelan Paradox by Moisés Naím
How Latin America’s sole remaining dictator outsmarted the world’s sole remaining superpower.