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CIAO DATE: 04/04
March/April 2004
Cover Story
The Hispanic Challenge by Samuel P. Huntington
The unprecedented inflow of Hispanic immigrants threatens to divide the United States into two peoples, with two cultures and two languages. Unlike past immigrant groups, Mexicans and other Latinos form their own political and linguistic enclaves—from Los Angeles to Miami—and reject the Anglo-Protestant values that built the American dream. The reconquista of the United States has begun.
Think Again
Human Rights by Richard Falk
These days, human rights come in more flavors than soft drinks or coffee. Would you like the Asian, Islamic, indigenous, economic, European, or U.S. variety? And how would you like that served: with sanctions, regime change, corporate window dressing, or old-fashioned moral suasion? A look at the most effective—and most misguided—recipes for promoting human dignity worldwide.
Essays
America's Sticky Power by Walter Russell Mead
U.S. military power and cultural appeal have kept the United States at the top of the global order. But hegemons cannot live on guns and Hollywood alone. U.S. economic policies and institutions act as "sticky power," attracting and then trapping other countries under U.S. influence. Sticky power can help stabilize Iraq, bring rule of law to Russia, and even prevent armed conflict between the United States and China.
Globalization at Work
Measuring Globalization by Foreign Policy, A.T. Kearney
The fourth annual A.T. Kearney/Foreign Policy Globalization Index reveals that even as the world economy slowed, Internet growth in poor countries and increased cross-border travel deepened global links. In last year's index, Ireland and Switzerland topped our ranking of personal, political, economic, and technological globalization in 62 countries. This year, who's up, who's down, and who's the most global of them all?
Memo to the President
How to Be a Free Trade Democrat by Gene Sperling
The Democratic presidential nominee must break the ideological gridlock over globalization and show how smart, open trade policy can boost economic growth while protecting workers in the United States and around the world. Here's how to get started.
Arguments
Minding the Gap by Sir Ian Forbes
The obstacle to remaking nato's military capabilities is not money or technology, it's psychology, writes the deputy supreme allied commander for transformation.
Courting the World by Anne-Marie Slaughter
U.S. judges must overcome isolationism—or risk being left out of the global legal order.
Bush Throws a Party by Kenneth Rogoff
How does U.S. President George W. Bush's preelection spending binge rate against his predecessors?
Broadband Marxism by Peter Lurie and Chris Sprigman
The first step to bridging the digital divide is rolling back the privatization of telecommunications in developing nations.
Reviews
In Other Words
Carlos Fuentes Foretells a New Mexico Trapped in Old Politics. by Christopher Domínguez Michael
Postwar Angola Seeks its Lost City. by Phyllis Peres
Global Newsstand
Australia Cleans Up Its Backyard
China's Growth Annoys the Neighbors
Mini-Nukes Aim Underground by Michael Levi
Political Economists Take on the World Trade Organization
Net Effect
Beating Viruses with Diversity by Jennifer L. Rich
Britain's Illegal Party of the People by James G. Forsyth
Discounts for Doctors in Poor Nations by Jennifer Kuo
Journalist Hu Shuli on Web Sites that Are Changing China by Hu Shuli
Between the Lines
Revisiting the Case for War by Joseph Cirincione, Dipali Mukhopadhyay, and Alexis Orton
Last year, President George W. Bush delivered a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he made a detailed case for war against Iraq. A look at recently declassified documents reveals that what the president said did not always reflect what some U.S. intelligence analysts believed about the threat of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and the regime's links to al Qaeda.
Missing Links
From Normalcy to Lunacy by Moisés Naím
New Latin American political groups are embracing the politics of rage, race, and revenge.
In Box
Defenseless Canada
Mapping Religious Freedom
Grand Death Auto