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CIAO DATE: 09/05
Spring 2004 (No. 75)
Articles
Reporter-at-Large: Tracking Terror Through Africa
By R.W. Johnson. Even before the Taliban fell, Al-Qaeda had its eye on a new sanctuary.
A Civil Solution
By Jason McCue. Civil suits hold corporations accountable. Why not terrorists?
Can NATO Survive Europe?
By John Hulsman, Radek Sikorski, Hans Binnendijk and Richard Kugler. In our last issue, E. Wayne Merry advocated that NATO should give way to a purely European defense system. John Hulsman, Radek Sikorski and Hans Binnendijk and Richard Kugler disagree.
Dead Souls: The Denationalization of the American Elite
By Samuel P. Huntington. America's elites have forgotten the mystic chords of memory. The American people have not.
Does Iraq Matter?
By Morton Abramowitz. Realists, neocons, and liberals all agree that American failure in Iraq would be a catastrophe beyond Iraq. Really? How exactly?
Don't Cut the Cheese
By Julia Watson. No more Brie, no more Stilton, no more Gorgonzola. Just what have Washington and Brussels got against cheese? Don't you know there's a war on?
Goodbye to Berlin?
By Walter Russell Mead. A declining Germany gets no respect from Red State America--yet it wants a veto over U.S. policy. Surrendering this conceit is the first step back toward influence.
Keeping Terror Out
By Mark Krikorian. If gardeners and housemaids can cross our porous borders, so can Al-Qaeda operatives.
Redefining the Terrorist
By Jonathan Kay: How to keep the terrorists in Guantanamo--legally.
Retreat from Globalization
By Ian Campbell. Bush appeases the anti-globalizers; the Democrats embrace them; the economy bubbles along; and the clouds gather.
The Blogs of War
By Glenn Harlan Reynolds. Governments used to do war and diplomacy, media used to report them. But in the Iraq War, freelance writers with laptops critiqued, corrected and cowed them both.
The Cost of Living
By Matthew C. Weinzierl. How much should we spend to save an innocent child's life--and don't say it's priceless.
The Dating Game
By Zeyno Baran. American is playing matchmaker to Turkey and the EU. It had better work. A broken engagement could mean a clash of civilizations.
The Sources of Russian Conduct
By Nikolas K. Gvosdev. Sixty years after Kennan, Russia still baffles. But Putin's managed pluralism has deep roots in Russian opinion.
Uncle Sam in the Arab Street
By Ray Takeyh. If America promotes democracy in the Middle East, it must be prepared for some very unpleasant consequences.
Winning Over the Muslim Mind
By Derk Kinnane. J-Lo won't do it; Moderate imams may.
Yes, He Has No Bananas
By Joe-Bob Briggs. Despot Watch chronicles the accelerating ruin of Zimbabwe and its dictator.
Reviews
A Champion for the Bourgeoisie
By Leon Aron. A fictional 19th-century detective disdains Russia's intelligentsia and preaches a bourgeois sermon on virtue and responsible citizenship to Russia's nascent middle class.
Bad Laws Make Bad Judges
By Fred C. Iklé. Robert Bork warns that judicial activism is going global. He doesn't know the half of it.
In the Ranks of Death
By Martin Walker. Wars and rumors of war will continue until the end of time. Martin Walker, who was present at the Battle of Basra, reflects on the changes in this unchanging reality.
The Terrorist as Statesman
By Kevin Myers. Washington, London and Dublin all declare that the peace process must continue--no matter how many people get killed. Gerry Adams completely agrees.