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Working Out: A Letter from Sinaloa

George Grayson | Dec 01, 2002
Sinaloa's maverick governor and his team have turned a narco-trafficking hellhole into a civic and commercial success. Maybe their formula can be franchised.

End of an Affair?

Robert S. Leiken | Dec 01, 2002
A tale of Mexican-American romance and disappointment, with proposals preferred to save a friendship.

All the Way

Robert Legvold | Dec 01, 2002
Vladimir Putin's vision of Russia's place in the real new world order offers a prospect of genuine Russian-American alliance. George W. Bush should pursue it.

Sonderweg: The Closing of the German Mind

Uwe Siemon-Netto | Dec 01, 2002
Germany's September election displayed the effects of its 68ers' "Long March through the institutions." Herewith an assessment and a critique.

The Scandal of U.S.-Saudi Relations

Daniel Pipes | Dec 01, 2002
Excessive deference toward Saudi Arabia undermines U.S. national interests, and the basic reason for it is none too pretty.

The Unipolar Moment Revisited

Charles Krauthammer | Dec 01, 2002
As the "unipolar moment" stretches out into an era, its opportunities and vulnerabilities both come clearer a dozen years after its conceptual coinage.
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Commentary

The Unfinished Revolution: East-Central Europe, Democratization and the Euro-Atlantic Community

Charles Gati | Feb 05, 2003
On Sunday, February 2, 2003, President Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic became a private citizen.

Out With the Old, In with the New?

Paul J. Saunders | Jan 29, 2003
However undiplomatic it may have been, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's reference to French and German concerns about a possible U.

Somewhere over the Rainbow: Reconsidering the Oil Surplus

Charles A. Kohlhaas | Jan 15, 2003
 On the Saturday before Christmas, I re-entered the United States and picked up the Friday issue of the Wall Street Journal, among other things, to catch up on the news on the plane from my Port of Entry back to Denver.
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Books & Reviews

Contact: The Politics of Migration

Jeremy Black | Sep 01, 2002
Impressive historical scholarship on migration cannot save Professor Hoerder from the miasma of current academic fashions.

Money and Power: Pondering Economic Growth and Decline

Richard Rosecrance | Jun 01, 2002
A trio of books proposes intriguing reasons for economic growth--national pride, surplus labor and investment security--but none parses the novelty of the virtual state.

Wasserstein's Jerusalem

Yossi Klein Halevi | Jun 01, 2002
Discounting the Jewish claim to Jerusalem in the name of evenhandedness is no way to achieve a just settlement.

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