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| Past Themes and Topics Full text of all articles in this issue is available at Project Muse Migration Four Dimensions of Membership in Germany A comprehensive assessment of Germany's citizenship law and the challenges it poses for a burgeoning foreign population. Policymakers must face the changing composition of Germany and dispose of traditional notions of ethnonational solidarity. Trans-State Loyalties and Politics of Turks and Kurds in Western Europe This analysis of Kurdish and Turkish communities in Germany and the Netherlands illustrates how diaspora activities affect politics in the homeland and the host country. In so doing, they break down the distinction between domestic and foreign politics. Practical Philopshy and First Admission A philosopher discusses first admission policies from the perspective of practical philosophy. Restrictive first admission policies are indefensible as long as wealthy states do not live up to their moral obligations to fight global poverty. Forced Migration, Humanitarian Intervention, and Sovereignty Forced displacement has become a significant dimension of complex humanitarian emergencies in the post-Cold War era. Heightened expectations for international intervention are confronted with limited resources through which to invoke preventative measures. Russia in Asia and Asians in Russia Russia may be a power in the Pacific, but it is not yet a Pacific power. Regional officials support Moscow's policy of dual emphasis on Asia and the West, but they fear the social, economic, and political consequences, especially reliance on Asian migrant labor. Who is an Indian? Sonia Gandhi's election bid sparked a debate on who has the right to speak for India. Who is a Hebrew? The author proposes reviving the term Hebrew as part of an ongoing effort to develop a terminological framework for a solution to the conflict in the Middle East. Who is a German? The author traces the evolution of German citizenship law and concludes that efforts to reform conceptions of German identity through the institution of citizenship have failed. Who is a Singaporean? Singapore seeks to grow using selective immigration from a pool of foreign talent. How Singaporean are the new citizens? Other Titles The Illusion of a Short-War The United States is deluded into thinking its technological superiority allows short wars with few casualties. U.S. military strategy ignores other states' strategic context, thus giving rise to foreign policy without clarity of goal or purpose. Meanwhile in Africa Is regional peacekeeping a viable alternative to U.S.-led intervention? Cain argues that subcontracting humanitarian enforcement to regional hegemons is neither a cheap nor an effective alternative to Western leadership. The case of Liberia offers evidence. De-Mystifying the Serbian Horse In Milošević, the Serbian people were presented with a Trojan Horse, a grand illusion that was bound to lead them to an irreversible disaster. The question, however, of the horse's inventor holds no obvious or easy answer. Migration and Policy Migration and Selective Memory in Fortress Europe Kristen Hill Maher reviews Saskia Sassen's new book Guests and Aliens, which, although less pointed and polished than Sassen's earlier works, offers a strong message to policymakers to remember their countries' histories as destinations, and not only sources, of migration. Debating the Bottom Line Reviewing The Congressional Politics of Immigration Reform, by James R. Edwards and James G. Gimpel, Amelia Brown supports the assertion that immigration policymaking has become more partisan in recent years. It is the authors' explanation for this increased partisanship that Brown finds less satisfying. The Benefits of Interdisciplinary Approaches in Migration Research What is the relation between the economic, social, and demographic factors on the one hand and the spatial distribution of migrants on the other? Tamara Woroby examines this question in her review of Migration and Restructuring the United States, edited by Kavita Pandit and Suzanne Davies Withers. Reconsidering the Domestic Causes of Immigration and Citizenship Policies Miriam Feldblum reviews Christian Joppke's Immigration and the Nation-State and Fences and Neighbors by Jeannette Money, focusing on national control over immigration and the determinants propelling change in immigration and citizenship policies. Politics and Personalities Blank Spaces: Talbiyah and Rehavia Edward Said has been repeatedly criticized for not being from among the people for whose rights he speaks so passionately. In reviewing his autobiography Out of Place, Meron Benvenisti argues that, while this quarrel is better left to the inhabitants of the "old neighbor- hood(s)," when you make your life a political act, you get what you ask for. Robert McNamara and His Battle with the Truth In reviewing Argument Without End, by Robert S. McNamara, Leo Wise asserts that while McNamara would like to set the record straight on U.S. decision-making during the Vietnam War, he fails to develop a new interpretation of those events and times. War and Peace Conflict Management: The Long and the Short of It I. William Zartman examines the debate over the emphasis on short-term as opposed to long-term approaches to conflict resolution in his review of Theory and Practice in Conflict Management, edited by Marc Howard Ross and Jay Rothman; A Public Peace Process, by Harold H. Saunders; The Understanding and Management of Global Violence, edited by Harvey Starr; and Conflict Resolved? A Critical Assessment of Conflict Resolution, by Alan C. Tidwell. Who's Holding the Guns? Quentin Hodgson reviews Civilian Control of the Military, by Michael C. Desch, and finds that this attempt at creating a structuralist grand theory of civil-military relations is too ambitious, ultimately doomed by the rigidity of its approach. Film Review The Cinema of Political Allegory Peter Bloom reviews a recent Algerian remake of a 1961 French spaghetti (camembert) Western, Dynamite Moh, that has been given a North African setting and a modern political context to tell the story of Algeria's civil war through a different lens. In the second part of his review, Bloom examines Clair Denis' new film, Beau Travail, which provides a novel view of the French Foreign Legion and its history, legacy, and meaning in contemporary France. Around the World Internal Migration in China Uneven development and dislocation have led to the creation of a huge floating population in China. Dorothy J. Solinger argues in her new book Contesting Citizenship in Urban China, reviewed by Michael S. Chase, that these developments have led to the exclusion of China's internal migrants from citizenship in their own country. Development and Dialogue in the Ferghana Valley Preventing Conflict in Central Asia, by Nancy Lubin, Keith Martin, and Barnett R. Rubin offers a blueprint for preempting an inter-ethnic conflict in this potentially volatile region of Central Asia. Alexis Martin assesses the strength and viability of the recommendations. On the Brink of What? Christopher Chivvis takes a look at France on the Brink, by Jonathan Fenby, and the inability of a "great civilization" to adapt to a changing world. He finds that Fenby, in spite of proclaiming the opposite, fails to take France on its own terms. |
