Predicting the unthinkable, anticipating the impossible: from the fall of the Berlin Wall to America in the new century
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| adam_text | Contents
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xvii
Part I: The Expectant Decade
1
East Germany s Not at All like Its Image, Ron
3
Berlin Wall is Just One Example of
How the World is Split in Two
4
Soviet Empire Begins to Crack
6
Groping toward Pluralism
8
Iranian Children Herded to Death
11
We Still Can t
G
о
Home Again
13
Reagan Reforms: His View of Soviets
14
Partii:
lhe
Conceit of Innocence
19
Poland s Winning Ways with Freedom
21
Policymakers Ignore New Trends in Terrorism
23
Yugoslavia: Pulled Back to the Past and Ahead
to the Future
25
Sick with History, Kosovo Awaits Serbs Final Blow
27
The Conceit of Innocence II
29
Who Killed Sir Michael Rose?
31
UN. and West Should Quit Playing Dead Dog in Bosnia
33
UN Secretary-General Believes in Negotiating
36
The United Nations and Neutralism
38
Russians Slowly Learning New Way
40
Unclear Indicator of the New Russia
42
After
1,000
Years of Absolute Faiths, Russia has None
44
Russia Needed a New Identity, Not Shock Therapy
47
Kazakh Leader Grapples with Change
49
In Ironic Reversal, Little Finland Now Influencing
Giant Neighbor Russia
52
Little Norway Goes Where Superpowers Cannot Trend
55
Predicting the Unthinkable Anticipating the Impossible
Holland s Managed Morality
57
The Cold War is Over but the Quest for Meaning Continues
59
Should U.S. Troops Have Gone on to Baghdad?
61
Seeking to Change Society by Force?
63
End of Cold War Released Violent, Separatist Feelings
66
Many Groups are Aiding the Breakdown of Nation-States
68
Sadat s Vision Made a Big Difference
70
Lessons from the Death of a Cowboy
73
Post-Cold War World Requires Institution-Building
75
Foreign Policy Differences of Utopians and Realists
78
Comandante
Chavez Wants to Save Venezuela from Abyss
80
Marine Corps Experience is Applicable Elsewhere
82
What the Listeners Might Hear in Havana
85
Democracy is Process, Not Instant Coffee
87
Shanghai: Full of Life, But Going Where?
89
Traditional Idea of Truth vs. Designer Truths
92
Our Foreign Policy toward China is Delusional
94
Part
IH:
Terrorism an Era unto Itself
97
Gov. George W. Bush is a Reasonable Reformer
99
Bush s Faith-Based Program is Far Superior to Welfare State
101
Putin Arrives
104
Gulf War Did Not Change Saddam Hussein s Priorities
107
Religious-Secular Tensions Divide Israel
109
Clinton Foreign Policy is Devoid of Principle 111
U.S. Must Preserve What is Left of Our Civic Ideals
114
Internet Globalizes Can t Erase Cultural Differences
116
In India the South Points the Way for the North
119
Information without Context or Knowledge is Meaningless
121
Afghani Radicals Foment Terror in Far-Flung Places
123
America is Losing Its Sense of Self
126
Haiti: Political Terrorism Hangs over Elections
129
Part
IV;
Between Neutralism and Justice
133
Cultural Intelligence was Sacrificed on the Economic Altar
135
Long-Term U.S. Goal: Collapse of Terrorist Network
138
Winds of Change Keep Blowing over Bush White House
140
Rootless Young Men May Become Civilization s Nemesis
143
Contents
Palestinians Despair as Hope for Peace and Land Disappear
145
Afghan Leader Abdul Haq was Rare Voice of Reason
in Mayhem
148
Renewed Influence of Nation-States Marks
Geopolitical Analysis
151
Journalism for the Sheer Joy of It
153
Pearl s Death Marks Cold New Reality for
Foreign Correspondents
156
Hawks Eyes Look Longingly at War against Hussein
159
With Queen Mother s Passing, Mothering
Loses Great Exemplar
162
U.S. No Longer Plays by the Rules It Helped to Invent
164
Bush Sr. Sends Not-So-Subtle Message with
Award to Kennedy
167
Weapons of Mass Deception Were Saddam s
Greatest Defense
169
Kuwait s Historical Example Holds Lessons about Iraq
171
New Chapters Open in the Mystery behind the War
174
Earlier Examination Identified Disintegrating Nation-States
176
Remembering Yitzhak Rabin: A Legacy of Peace Derailed
179
Mr. Rockefeller s Roads Reveal Nature, Not Despoil It
181
America s Abbreviated Experiment with Empire-Building
184
I Thought We Were Different
187
Oman s Development an Instructive Model for Middle East
189
Military Explores Traditional Power Centers in
Chaotic Iraq
192
European Union Continues toward Role as World Player
195
Unity, Authority Were Missing Links in
New Orleans Disaster
198
The Dark Heart of Dick Cheney
200
Peace is Not Fostered by Lip Service but by Patient Labor
203
Referendum in Uganda Offers Lesson for
Emerging Democracies
205
Chinas Star is Rising as a World Superpower
209
Cohesive Future Depends on Comprehensive
Newspaper Reporting
211
Deconstructing Don Rumsfeld
214
Baker on Cleanup Crew after Sonny s Big Adventure
217
Without Newspapers, Americans Can t Understand
the World
219
Predicting
tibe
Unthinkable Anticipating
tihe
Impossible
Egyptian Cat Scholarship was Purely a Labor of Love
222
In Wake of Iraq Miscalculations, Talk Turns to Iran
225
Private Security Contractors Create Very Public Problems
227
Boris Yeltsin Leaves Legacy of Contradiction
230
Son Solves Mystery of Father s Death in Soviet Gulag
233
Political, Not Religious, Issues are Motivating Terrorists
235
War Costs Endanger Our Future Security
238
Questions Remain in the Fall of Emperor
Spitzer 240
Zbigniew Brzeziński:
Master of Foreign Policy
243
Questions of War
246
Market Magic Relied on Greed
248
US. Can t Afford More Mistakes
250
America Has Lost Sight of Its Original Work Ethic
253
Part V: The Present as Future
257
The Original Community Organizer
259
Counterinsurgency Doesn t Come
Naturally to U.S. Forces
262
Crisis Mode Dominates International Conference
264
One Woman s Journey through the Health Care Jungle
267
Obama
Strategy to End War by Making War
269
Next Stop: Yemen
272
Is There a New Revolution under Way in Iran?
274
Afghan Morass
277
Twentieth Anniversary of the Berlin Wall
280
The Fault is in Ourselves
283
Iraq War Still a Mistake
285
Price of Peace in Europe
288
Google in China
290
How did We Ever Get to be So
Incivil
and Vulgar?
Without Even Trying?
292
Radical Young Terrorists aren t So Mysterious After All
295
Part VI: Out of Time but in Space
299
Chicago: Life is a Matter of Becoming
301
Vietnam. Then Haiti Today
303
Pacifist Policies, Appeasing Terrorism
305
Axis of Annoyance Prevails in Latin America
308
Contents
War
on the
Southern
Border
311
Spreading the Developmental Gospel
313
African Illusions and Realities
316
Germany s Isolation Collapsed with The Wall
318
A Trip to Polish Roots
321
Mothers: The Swing Generation for Women s Rights
325
New South Africa Shines at the World Cup
328
America s Little Wars are Draining Us in a Big Way
331
Summer Home: The Past is No More
333
Lessons from the Chicago South Side
335
A Graduate Comes Full Circle
338
Index
341
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