BY REUBEN E. BRIGETY II One of the greatest convergences in American foreign policy in the last twenty years has been the recognition of the strategic utility of humanitarian and developmental assistance (HDA). While encouraging, this change is not without concern. The principal question posed by this development is this: How can HDA maintain its [...]
BY DAVID DAVIS The coalition intervention in Iraq of the spring of 2003 was carried out to depose a cruel and heinous dictator, Saddam Hussein. There has been much press and conjecture about other reasons for the intervention. What is little debated however, is that the Iraq that the coalition found was in great need. [...]
BY RICHARD E. RUBENSTEIN There has been some debate, but not nearly as intense or as enlightening as one might have hoped, about the current U.S. administration’s declared policy to promote the spread of democracy around the world. Objections to the program of “exporting democracy” are generally of two sorts. One group—call it the “native [...]