Showing papers in "Foreign Affairs in 1989"

The New Realities

Abstract: Even in the flattest landscape there are passes where the road first climbs to a peak and then descends into a new valley. Most of these passes are simply topography with little or no difference in climate, language or culture between the valleys on either side. But some passes are different: they are true divides. History too knows such divides. Once these divides have been crossed, the social and political landscape changes; the social and political climate is different, and so is the social and political language. Some time between 1965 and 1973 we passed over such a divide and entered "the next century". This work anticipates the central issues of a rapidly changing world. When it was initially published in 1989, some reviewers mistakenly thought the text was a book about the future, or in other words, a series of predictions. But, as indicated in the title, the text discusses realities. Peter Drucker argues that events of the next 30 to 40 years, or even further on, had already largely been defined by events of the previous half-century. Thus, Drucker discusses episodes in world history that had not yet happened at the time of the book's initial publication, such as: the archaism of the hope for "salvation by society" in "The End of FDR's America"; the democratization of the Soviet Union in "When the Russian Empire is Gone"; the technology boom of the 1990s in "The Information-Based Organization"; and the evolution of management in "Management as Social Function and Liberal Art". This edition features a new preface by the author that discusses both reactions to the original publication of the book and how important it is for decision-makers to consider the past and present when planning for the future.

Revolution from abroad : the Soviet conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia

Abstract: Jan Gross describes the terrors of the Soviet occupation of the lands that made up eastern Poland between the two world wars: the Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. His lucid analysis of the revolution that came to Poland from abroad is based on hundreds of first-hand accounts of the hardship, suffering, and social chaos that accompanied the Sovietization of this poorest section of a poverty-stricken country. Woven into the author's exploration of events from the Soviet's German-supported aggression against Poland in September of 1939 to Germany's attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, these testimonies not only illuminate his conclusions about the nature of totalitarianism but also make a powerful statement of their own. Those who endured the imposition of Soviet rule and mass deportations to forced resettlement, labor camps, and prisons of the Soviet Union are here allowed to speak for themselves, and they do so with grim effectiveness.

Kennedy's quest for victory : American foreign policy, 1961-1963

Abstract: This book covers every aspect of Kennedy's foreign policy - Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, Vietnam, the Middle East, and Canada, and subjects such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, atomic policy, economic policy, and the Peace Corps.

In Hitler's shadow : West German historians and the attempt to escape from the Nazi past

Abstract: List of Maps. Preface. CHAPTER ONE The Burden of Guilt. CHAPTER TWO "Asiatic Deeds". CHAPTER THREE Bulwark against Bolshevism?. CHAPTER FOUR Auschwitz and Elsewhere. CHAPTER FIVE Reshaping Central Europe. CHAPTER SIX Germany and the West. Notes. Further Reading. Index.

Not either an experimental doll : the separate worlds of three South African women

Abstract: "... remarkable... " --Foreign Affairs "... illuminates the workings of institutionalized racism through the correspondence of three South African women in the 1940s and '50s." --Feminist Bookstore News "The history of a place and time is made vivid by the combination of the rich personal record of the letters and the theoretically framed analytic discussion. The result is new insight into the history of black education in South Africa, and a revealing study of the dynamics of women's relations under colonialism across the lines of race, age and power." --Susan Greenstein, The Women's Review of Books "A riveting and revealing book--one in which few of the characters wear hats that are spotlessly white." --Third World Resources "This rich collection of letters deserves its own reading, as do Shula Marks's bracketing essays. They are invaluable for clarifying the myriad ramifications that the letters raise for African women." --International Journal of African Historical Studies "... powerful and perceptive....speak[s] eloquently to a Western audience that is poised to deal with the political and personal lives of South African women in an intimate holistic fashion." --Belles Lettres The roots of modern Apartheid are exposed through the painful and revealing correspondence of three very different South African women--two black and one "liberal" white--from 1949 to 1951. Although the letters speak for themselves, the editor has written an introduction and epilogue which tell of the tragic ending to this riveting story.

The Great Betrayal: Britain, Australia and the Onset of the Pacific War, 1939-42

Abstract: This compelling and controversial book reveals how in 1942 Churchill, in an attempt to delay an attack on India, left Australia at the mercy of the Japanese by trying to prevent American forces being sent to the Pacific. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including many previously unavailable to historians, David Day exposes a saga of empty promises and asks serious questions about the past and future relationship between Britain and Australia.

Israel's fateful hour

Abstract: At the 19th session of the Palestine National Council (PNC) in Algiers last November, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) took a historic and unexpected step: it offered Israel peace based on mutual recognition within the framework of a two-state solution. Indeed, for the first time in its history, the PLO accepted the principle of partition based on U.N. Resolution 181. In doing so, the PLO broke with one of the central tenets of the Palestine National Charter, which states that "the partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the State of Israel are entirely illegal, regardless of the passage of time, because they were contrary to the will of the Palestinian people and to their natural right in their homeland." Several weeks after the PNC meeting in Algiers, PLO chairman Yasir Arafat clarified the PLO's policy at a press conference in Geneva where he explicitly recognized Israel and called on Israeli leaders to join with him in finding a formula that would end the conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews. The United States, which for 13 years has refused to talk with the PLO, responded by agreeing to establish a limited dialogue with the organization. Stunned Israeli leaders, who were in the throes of the "Who is a Jew?" controversy, denounced the U.S. move and angrily dismissed Arafat's statement as a mere propaganda ploy by an unrepentant terrorist steadfast in his dedication to Israel's destruction.