USAID in the Post-9/11 World
by Andrew Natsios, Foreign Service Journal, June 2006
The role of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has changed in the past five years more than at any point since the Kennedy administration. The article offers an interesting account of how reforms are realigning the agency´s policies and operations to match today´s strategic and developmental challenges.
Now for the Hard Part: A Survey of Business in India
The Economist, June 3rd – 9th 2006
A 14-page special report on booming Indian business. A series of articles focuses on various current trends and developments of Indian economy and society. The magazine concludes that Indian business has much to celebrate indeed.
Does the Israel Lobby Have Too Much Power?
„Yes“ by Stephen Walt, John Mearsheimer and Zbigniew Brzezinski
„No“ by Aaron Friedberg, Dennis Ross, Shlomo Ben-Ami
Foreign Policy, July/August 2006
Political scientists John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt sparked a firestorm when they raised questions about the power the Israel lobby wields over U.S. foreign policy. Now, in an exclusive FP Roundtable, they face off with four distinguished experts of the Middle East over whether the influence of the Israel lobby is ordinary or extraordinary.
The Case For Goliath
How America Acts As The World's Government in the Twenty-first Century
by Michael Mandelbaum
Public Affairs, New York, 2005
One of the nation's leading foreign policy thinkers provides an eye-opening look at America's new role in the world, the responsibilities it has undertaken, and the challenges it faces.
How does the United States use its enormous power in the world? In The Case for Goliath, Michael Mandelbaum offers a surprising answer: The United States furnishes to other countries the services that governments provide within the countries they govern.
Mandelbaum explains how this role came about despite the fact that neither the United States nor any other country sought to establish it. He describes the contributions that American power makes to global security and prosperity, the shortcomings of American foreign policy, and how other countries have come to accept, resent, and exert influence on America's global role. And he assesses the prospects for the continuation of this role, which depends most importantly on whether the American public is willing to pay for it.
Written with Mandelbaum's characteristic blend of clarity, wit, and profound understanding of America and the world, The Case for Goliath offers a fresh and surprising approach to an issue that obsesses citizens and policymakers the world over, as well as a major statement on the foreign policy issues confronting the American people today.
