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The Russian Oil Sector and the Global Oil Economy: A Prospectus The winning entry in the SAIS Review student essay contest surveys the Russian oil industry and its role in the global market. A U.S.-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement: Cementing a Geostrategic Economic Relationship A U.S.-Japan free trade agreement has been proposed regularly since the 1980s, only to be defeated by protectionists and pessimists. But a new set of economic and geopolitical circumstances may make such an agreement necessary. "We Survive": Hope in a South African Shantytown A photogrphic essay on South Africa. Modern Jihad: The Islamist Crusade A comparison of the context, motives, and organization of the First Christian Crusade and today's radical Islmaic jihad draws out the economic roots of both. International Interventions and Imperialism: Lessons from the 1990s The 1990s witnessed an unpredendented number of UN interventions, some of which challenged the concept of sovereignty that lies at the heart of today's international system. This philosophical reorientation anticipated some of the ideas expressed in more extreme form in the U.S. doctrine of preemptive intervention. European and American Reactions to Kosovo: The Policy Divide Revisited in the Iraq War The transatlantic rift over the war in Iraq is neither new nor likely to be mended soon. The international response to the Kosovo crisis illustrates basic differences in policy approaches and suggests patterns of interaqction that nave already been repeated in the build-up to the Iraq war. American Hegemony: The View from Australia Australia and the United States have been extremely close allies since World War II, yet increasing numbers of Australians are reassessing the growing cost and unclear benefits of that relationship. Lessons of Empire: Britain and India Some commentators have held India up as a prime example of the benefits of imperialism, arguing that British imeprialism was a powerful agent of progress, development, and good governance. But a closer examination of the historical record shows mixed results and suggests that imperialism is inherently inappropriate as a vehicle for nation building. France and Senegal: The End of the Affair? The special relationship between France and its sub-Saharan African colonies after independence is only now beginning to fade. This article examines the legacy of that relationship in Senegal. U.S. Cultural Imperialism Today: Only a Chimera? The U.S. media dominates the globe, and its values dominate global business culture and other important arenas. But does this mean that U.S. culture is imperialist? The Globalization of Nothing Globalization is not a singluar process with uniform results. This theoretical essay explores two major processes within globalization--glocalization (the integration of the global and the local) and grobalization (the imposition of the global on the local)--and the implications of the conflict between the two. TOPIn Search of New Grand Strategy review of Charles A. Kupchan's The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-First Century What Russians Think About Foreign Policy review of William Zimmerman's The Russian People and Foreign Policy Africa Unvarnished review of Lynne Duke's Mandela, Mobutu, and Me A Journey Beyond Stereotypes review of Afshin Molavi's Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys Across Iran Words of War: Journalism in the Former Yugoslavia review of Kemal Kurspahic's Prime Time Crime History's First Draft review of Bob Woodward's Bush at War City of God, City of Man review of Braziliam film City of God Recent Books |
