The Long Shadow of Iraq’s Future
Experts frequently point to Iraq’s past – colonial history, Saddam’s brutality, ethnic rivalries – to explain the current violence. But evidence from similar regimes indicates the causes may lie not in the echoes of the past, but in the long shadow cast by Iraq’s...
Turkey Looks West, and Up
“For the Turk, freedom is life,” declared Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Turkey’s founding father, in 1920. But he clearly had something in mind quite different from the democratic and market freedoms frequently praised by US President George W. Bush. For Ataturk, in the name...
Japan’s Economically Challenged Pols
As Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori struggles through his term in office, it is tempting to say that Japan's political leadership doesn't matter. After all, authority over the country's most important economic policies has traditionally rested in the hands of bureaucrats....