Foreign Affairs - March/April 2009

Since its founding in 1922, Foreign Affairs has been the leading forum for serious discussion of American foreign policy and global affairs. The articles in Foreign Affairs deal with questions of international interest. They cover a broad range of subjects, not only political but historical and economic. This issue includes the following articles:


• The Precedents for Withdrawal by Bennett Ramberg

• The Japan Fallacy by Richard Katz

• Center Stage for the 21st Century by Robert D. Kaplan

• How Development Leads to Democracy by Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel

• Reshaping the World Order by Stephen G. Brooks and William C. Wohlforth

• The Geoengineering Option by David G. Victor, M. Granger Morgan, Jay Apt, John Steinbruner, and Katharine Ricke

• Free at Last? by Bernard Lewis

• Germany’s Russia Question by Constanze Stelzenmüller

• Bank Shots by Rachel L. Loeffler

• Cambodia’s Curse by Joel Brinkley

• Adrift on the Nile by Steven A. Cook

• The Missing Peaces by Michael D. Bell, Daniel C. Kurtzer, and Prem G. Kumar

• Defending the Golan Heights by Dore Gold and Shimon Shapira; Richard N. Haass and Martin Indyk

• A League of Their Own by James M. Lindsay

• Smallholders Unite by Derek Byerlee and Alain de Janvry; Joan VanWassenhove and Donna Barry

• Unclear Nuclear Logic? by Frank Procida; Peter Huessy

• Diagnosing USAID by Amy B. Frumin