Edward Democracy Schumacher, in Foreign Affairs (Summer 1984), P.O. Box 2615, Boulder, Colo.
In Argentina 8032 1.
In October 1983, Argentinians surprised themselves when they made mod- erate Raul Alfonsin their president. That historic election marked the end of a seven-year military dictatorship and, possibly, the long domination of Argentinian politics Juan Peron and his followers.
Can Argentina finally shed its 50-year-old reputation as "the bad boy of the Western Hemisphere"? ask...
Edward Democracy Schumacher, in Foreign Affairs (Summer 1984), P.O. Box 2615, Boulder, Colo.
In Argentina 8032 1.
In October 1983, Argentinians surprised themselves when they made mod- erate Raul Alfonsin their president. That historic election marked the end of a seven-year military dictatorship and, possibly, the long domination of Argentinian politics Juan Peron and his followers.
Can Argentina finally shed its 50-year-old reputation as "the bad boy of the Western Hemisphere"? ask...
Hans
Whither Sweden? L. Zetterbera. in Daedalus (Winter 19841.
American cade em^ of Artsand sciences;
P.O. Box 515, Canton, Mass. 02021.
For much of the 20th century, Sweden has served as the world's model of a welfare state. Now, however, it seems full of dire portents, writes Zetterberg, who heads the Swedish Institute of Opinion Research.
Sweden's welfare state is very much a reflection of the national char- acter, he says, a special brew of rationalism and humanitarianism. Ra- tionalism...
WilliamA Close Election Schneider, in National Journal (Oct. 29,
1983), 1730 M St. N.W., Washington, D.C.
In 1984 20036.
The presidential election season is upon us again, and given the fates of recent incumbents-Gerald Ford lost to Jimmy Carter, who lost to Ronald Reagan-it would be premature to bet on a Reagan victory.
Indeed, reports Schneider, an American Enterprise Institute political scientist, the race now looks like a toss-up. The much-heralded "new Republican majority" that...
Mark Greenbera and Rachel Flick. in
Commissions Journal of ~ontem~orary
Studies (Fall1983), Transaction Periodicals Consor- tium, Dept. 541, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
A new type of presidentially appointed commission is taking over jobs that America's top elected officials should be doing, and the change is symptomatic of a malfunction in the U.S. political system. So argue Greenberg and Flick, Senate and White House aides, respectively.
The first presidential commission...
Sheldon S. Wolin,
in democracy (Fall 1983), 43 West 61st St., Grassroo ts ? New York, N.Y. 10023.
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the wast." wrote Thomas Jefferson, voicing the optimism that would fuel liberal- ism in America for most of this nation's history. The banner of "pro- gress," however, has been seized conservatives, writes Wolin, a Princeton political scientist.
While Ronald Reagan cheers up his countrymen with visions of a boom- ing...
the end of the 19th century, Wolin says, political "liberation" had been achieved in the West (with the exception of blacks and a few other "anomalies") and enshrined in new constitutions, legislatures, and civil liberties. Progress gradually came to mean just scientific and economic advance; demands for more political rights (e.g., "participatory democracy") were viewed as threats to material progress.
Thus, the idea of "progress" embraced present-day conservatives,...
1838, bitter feuds had pulled them apart.
Nicaragua has since suffered internal strife under a succession of dictators, Harrison says, while democratic Costa Rica has fared rela- tively well. One reason: Costa Rica was so poor that Spanish coloniz- ers never fully established the oppressive oligarchical plantation system that dominated Nicaragua.
Frequent direct U.S. intervention in Nicaragua (most recently, the presence of U.S. Marines between 1912 and 1933) stirred strong anti- Yanqui sentiment.
Today,...
Richard L. Garwin, in Interna-tional security (Fall 1983), The MIT Press Submarines (Journals), 28 Carleton St., Cambridge. Mass. 02142; "The Invisible Force" John Tierney, in Science 83 (Nov. 1983),
P.O. Box 10790, Des Moines, Iowa 50340.
Two legs of the U.S. strategic "triad"-land-based ICBMs and B-52 bombers-are shakier today than they once were. But the 34 U.S. Posei- don and Trident submarines will remain a virtually invulnerable deter- rent for a long time to come.
While...
Richard L. Garwin, in Interna-tional security (Fall 1983), The MIT Press Submarines (Journals), 28 Carleton St., Cambridge. Mass. 02142; "The Invisible Force" John Tierney, in Science 83 (Nov. 1983),
P.O. Box 10790, Des Moines, Iowa 50340.
Two legs of the U.S. strategic "triad"-land-based ICBMs and B-52 bombers-are shakier today than they once were. But the 34 U.S. Posei- don and Trident submarines will remain a virtually invulnerable deter- rent for a long time to come.
While...