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CIAO DATE: 12/02
November/December 2002
Letters
War on Wallerstein
Rethinking aid
Chicken Little II?
In Box
Britain's mercenary motives
Argentina's hoop dreams
Russia killer prudes
The world's most global companies
Think Again
Global Media by Benjamin Compaine
Big media barons are routinely accused of dominating markets, dumbing down the news to plump up the bottom line, and forcing U.S. content on world audiences. But these companies are not as big, bad, dominant, or American as critics claim. And company size is largely irrelevant to many of the problems facing today's Fourth Estate.
Prime Numbers
Plowing Up Subsidies by Patrick A. Messerlin
See why small farmers and taxpayers ought to raise a ruckus about the high level of agricultural protectionism.
Cover Story
Many of the theories that dominated political discourse in the 20th century are now defunct. Are these ideas truly extinct, or have they found ways to adapt to a new era? FP asks six thinkers to sort through the dustbin of history and tell us what they find.
Joshua Muravchik • Marxism
Fareed Zakaria • Asian Values
Robert Jervis • Mutual Assured Destruction
Bjørn Lomborg and Olivier Rubin • Limits to Growth
Andrés Velasco • Dependency Theory
James Fallows • The Military-Industrial Complex
Essay
Bush's Security Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
President George W. Bush's national security strategy represents the most sweeping shift in U.S. grand strategy since the beginning of the Cold War. But its success depends on the willingness of the rest of the world to welcome U.S. power with open arms.
Islam's Medieval Outposts by Husain Haqqani
The global spread of Islamic seminaries and their role in recruiting terrorists have cast their medievalist teachings in a new and dangerous light. A madrasa graduate takes a firsthand look at how they've changed and why fiddling with their curriculum is less important than opening students' minds.
The Real Trans-Atlantic Gap by Craig Kennedy and Marshall M. Bouton
A trans-Atlantic survey of public opinion reveals that Americans and Europeans see eye to eye on more issues than one would expect from reading the New York Times or Le Monde. But it also highlights dangerous divisions on key issues like defense spending and the Middle East.
Between the Lines
Eurotrashing Enron by David Fairlamb
Before the European Union gets too smug over U.S. corporate scandals, it should revisit its own struggle to agree on workable financial regulations.
Arguments
Power to the Populists by Richard Herzinger
Right-wing is the wrong adjective for European populists.
Double Ties by David A. Martin and T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Why nations should learn to love dual nationality.
Reviews
In Other Words
A Chinese bureaucrat tells all. by Minxin Pei
Argentina on the psychiatrist's couch by Santiago Real de Azúa
Boning up on lingua diplomatica by Chas. W. Freeman Jr.
Global Newsstand
Peru pans globalization in Russian courts give reform a chance
by Rafo LeónThe worldwide culture war heats up - Ecotourists don't tread lightly
Net Effect
Malaysia finds a free press by Cherian George
Online gaming is serious fun n The .org domain goes up for grabs by Jennifer L. Rich
E-democracy's crisis of confidence
Mapping the world's weakest links by Tobie Saad, Stanley D. Brunn, and Jeff House
Plus, Namibian muckraker Gwen Lister dishes up her favorite Web sites by Gwen Lister
Missing Links
Saving Latin America by Moisés Naím
President Bush has a chance to make hemispheric history. And if he doesn't take it, the United States will be among the worst losers.