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CIAO DATE: 09/05
Fall 2004 (No. 77)
Articles
Wagging the Dog
By Nikolas K. Gvosdev and Travis Tanner. In an unequal friendship, does the weaker have the whip hand? America is the stronger partner in any relationship. But the Taiwanese, the Israelis and the Georgians don't seem to know this.
In Defense of Democratic Realism
By Charles Krauthammer. What distinguishes "democratic globalism" --the target of Francis Fukuyama's attack-- from the author's own "democratic realism"? The second chooses its battles more carefully.
Real Democratik
By Clifford Kupchan. Liberalism at home need not imply appeasement abroad. To protect America and remain relevant for voters, Democrats must embrace muscular multilateralism.
Liberal Realism
By G. John Ikenberry and Charles A. Kupchan. The quickest way to end unipolarity is to pursue unilateralism. An America that obeys international rules will strengthen its foundation of power and preserve its advantage.
The Right Stuff
By F. Stephen Larrabee, John Gordon IV and Peter A. Wilson. America in the 21st century will be targeting terrorism and fighting small wars in distant places. While we remain ready to win the war, we must be equally ready to win the peace.
Spies Like Them
By Richard L. Russell. If you want to improve America's intelligence, don't read the 9/11 report. Read Buchan's Greenmantle or Kipling's Kim. We need agents of daring and skill, not better bureaucrats.
Reversing Proliferation
By Ira Straus. For the first time since Hiroshima, we have the objective conditions for halting and reversing WMD proliferation. All we need is for the great powers to cooperate.
Advancing Democracy
By Paula J. Dobriansky. Despots have long formed coalitions on the international stage. Democracies are finally responding.
The Authoritarian Illusion
By Gerard Alexander. Authoritarian states are judged to be the breeding grounds of poverty, resentment and terrorism, but this is not always the case. What kind of despot fosters extremism?
The "Amazing and Mysterious Life" of Ronald Reagan
By Josef Joffe. Mr. Reagan was a simple man with simple straightforward ideas. But he pursued a subtle and complex foreign policy. Maybe we missed something. Where was the rest of him?
Exporting Europe's Protectionism
By Lawrence A. Kogan. Europe is busy making protectionism a cultural value. And you thought Doha was messy.
America's Energy Challenge
By Ian Bremmer and Crispin Hawes. If America is to weather the coming energy storm, it must find safer harbors.
Small is Beautiful
By Stephen A. Boyko and Aron A. Gottesman. Small businesses get no respect -- and little venture capital. A new exchange could fix all that.
Scimitars to Plowshares
By Hossein Askari and Rana Atie. Middle Eastern regimes waste national wealth on armaments supplied by an opportunist West, and ordinary people suffer. Responsible Western nations must help break the cycle.
Reviews
The Late American Nation
By James Kurth. America has thrived thanks to its Anglo-Protestant culture. But does that culture carry the seeds of its own demise?
A Nation Under Guilt
By Martin Walker. Two recent histories of Nazi Germany shore up the dyke against the rising flood of "Germany as victim" revisionism.
Pride and Prejudice
By Paul Hollander. Anti-Americanism takes many forms -- most of them unfair. But as long as it strives to be a City upon a Hill, America Must learn to live with it.
The Realistic Roosevelt
By Tom Parker. As president, Teddy Roosevelt was not the Bull Moose of his earlier years. His prudence and respect for the balance of power are a model for any futue president.