John T. Rourke

Taking Sides: Clashing Views in World Politics

Herausgeber: Rourke, John T.

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TAKING SIDES: CLASHING VIEWS IN WORLD POLITICS presents current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. Each issue is thoughtfully framed with an issue summary, an issue introduction, and a postscript. An instructor's manual with testing material is available for each volume. USING TAKING SIDES IN THE CLASSROOM is also an excellent instructor resource with practical suggestions on incorporating this effective approach in the classroom. Each TAKING SIDES reader features an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites and is supported by our student website, www.dushkin.com/online.

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• Taking Sides: World Politics
• Verlag: Dushkin Publishing
• Expanded
• Seitenzahl: 385
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 25mm x 152mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780073515014
• ISBN-10: 0073515019
• Artikelnr.: 21881146

Autorenporträt

John T. Rourke, Ph.D., professor emeritus, is former head of the Department of Political Science at The University of Connecticut. He is author of International Politics on the World Stage, Eleventh Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2007); the author of Presidential Wars and American Democracy: Rally Round the Chief (Paragon House, 1993); a coauthor of Direct Democracy and International Politics: Deciding International Issues through Referendums (Lynn Rienner, 1992); the editor of Taking Sides: Clashing Views in World Politics, Twelfth Edition, expanded (McGraw-Hill, 2007) and You Decide: Current Debates in American Politics (Longman, 2005); the author of Making Foreign Policy: United States, Soviet Union, China (Brooks Cole, 1990), Congress and the Presidency in U.S. Foreign Policymaking (Westview, 1985), and numerous articles and papers. He continues to teach and especially enjoys introductory classes. His regard for the students has molded his approach to writinghe conveys scholarship in a language and within a frame of reference that undergraduates can appreciate. Rourke believes, as the theme of this book reflects, that politics affect us all and we can affect politics. Rourke practices what he propounds; his career long involved the universitys internship program and advising one of its political clubs. Additionally, he has served as a staff member of Connecticuts legislature, and has been involved in political campaigns on the local, state, and national levels.

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1. Globalization ISSUE 1. Is Economic Globalization a Positive Trend?
YES: Anne O. Krueger, from "Expanding Trade and Unleasing Growth: The
Prospects for Lasting Poverty Reduction," Remarks at the International
Monetary Fund Seminar on Trade and Regional Integration, Dakar, Senegal
(December 6, 2004)
NO: José Bové, from "Globalisation's Misguided Assumptions," OECD Observer
(September 2001)
Anne O. Krueger, first deputy managing director of the International
Monetary Fund, asserts that the growth of economic globalization is the
best approach to improving the economies of Africa and, by extension,
other countries as well. José Bové, a French farmer and
anti-globalization activist, contends that multinational corporations,
government leaders, and others are engaged in a propaganda campaign to
sell the world on the false promise of economic globalization.
ISSUE 2. Does Globalization Threaten Cultural Diversity?
YES: Julia Galeota, from "Cultural Imperialism: An American Tradition,"
The Humanist (May/June 2004)
NO: Philippe Legrain, from "In Defense of Globalization," The International
Economy (Summer 2003)
Julia Galeota of McLean, Virginia, who was seventeen years old when she
wrote her essay that won first place for her age category in the 2004
Humanist Essay Contest for YoungWomen and Men of North America,
contends that many cultures around the world are gradually disappearing
due to the overwhelming influence of corporate and cultural America.
Philippe Legrain, chief economist of Britain in Europe, an organization
supporting the adoption by Great Britain of the euro as its currency,
counters that it is a myth that globalization involves the imposition
of Americanized uniformity, rather than an explosion of cultural
exchange.
ISSUE 3. Will State Sovereignty Survive Globalism?
YES: Stephen D. Krasner, from "Sovereignty," Foreign Policy
(January/February 2001)
NO: Kimberly Weir, from "The Waning State of Sovereignty," An Original
Essay Written for This Volume (2002)
Professor of international relations Stephen D. Krasner contends that
the nation-state has a keen instinct for survival and will adapt to
globalization and other challenges to sovereignty. Kimberly Weir, an
assistant professor of political science, maintains that the tide of
history is running against the sovereign state as a governing
principle, which will soon go the way of earlier, now-discarded forms
of governance, such as empire.
PART 2. Regional and Country Issues ISSUE 4. Should the United States
Decrease Its Global Presence?
YES: Louis Janowski, from "Neo-Imperialism and U.S. Foreign Policy,"
Foreign Service Journal (May 2004)
NO: Niall Ferguson, from "A World Without Power," Foreign Policy
(July/August 2004)
Louis Janowski, a former U.S. diplomat with service in Vietnam, France,
Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, maintains that the view that the
9/11 attacks ushered in a new geo-strategic reality requiring new
foreign policy approaches is based on a false and dangerous premise and
is leading to an age of American neo-imperialism. Niall Ferguson,
Herzog Professor of History at New York University's Stern School of
Business and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford
University, contends that a U.S retreat from global power would result
in an anarchic nightmare of a new Dark Age.
ISSUE 5. Should the United States Continue to Encourage a United Europe?
YES: A. Elizabeth Jones, from Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Europe,
Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives (March
13, 2002)
NO: John C. Hulsman, from "Laying Down Clear Markers: Protecting American
Interests from a Confusing European Constitution," The Heritage Foundation
Backgrounder (December 12, 2003)
A. Elizabeth Jones, assistant secretary of state for European and
Eurasian affairs, maintains that the United States looks forward to
working cooperatively with such exclusively or mostly European
institutions as the European Union, the Organization for Cooperation
and Security in Europe, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
John C. Hulsman, a research fellow for European affairs in the Kathryn
and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at the
Heritage Foundation, argues that the United States should support
European countries on a selective basis but not be closely tied to
Europe as a whole.
ISSUE 6. Is Russian Foreign Policy Taking an Unsettling Turn?
YES: Ariel Cohen and Yevgeny Volk, from "Recent Changes in Russia and Their
Impact on U.S.-Russian Relations," The Heritage Foundation Backgrounder
(March 9, 2004)
NO: Leon Aron, from Testimony During Hearings on "U.S.-Russia Relations in
Putin's Second Term," Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of
Representatives (March 18, 2004)
Ariel Cohen, research fellow in Russian and Eurasian studies in the
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at
The Heritage Foundation, and Yevgeny Volk, The Heritage Foundation's
Moscow office director, write that the revival of statism and
nationalism has seriously diminished Russia's chances of being regarded
as a close and reliable partner that is clearly committed to democratic
values. Leon Aron, director of Russian studies at the American
Enterprise Institute, recognizes that there are pressures within Russia
to try to take a more confrontational stance but believes that the
forces for moderation are stronger.
ISSUE 7. Does a Strict "One China" Policy Still Make Sense?
YES: Michael D. Swaine, from Testimony During Hearings on "The Taiwan
Relations Act: The Next Twenty-Five Years," Committee on International
Relations, U.S. House of Representatives (April 21, 2004)
NO: William Kristol, from Testimony During Hearings on "The Taiwan
Relations Act: The Next Twenty-Five Years," Committee on International
Relations, U.S. House of Representatives (April 21, 2004)
Michael D. Swaine, senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace, testifies before Congress that for the foreseeable
future, any workable U.S.-China relationship depends on maintaining the
long-standing understanding between Beijing and Washington on the
status of Taiwan. William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard
magazine, contends that it is time to question whether U.S. interests
and those of Taiwan are served by the long-standing understanding
between Beijing and Washington on the status of Taiwan.
ISSUE 8. Should North Korea's Nuclear Arms Program Evoke a Hard-Line
Response?
YES: William Norman Grigg, from "Aiding and Abetting the 'Axis,'" The New
American (February 24, 2003)
NO: Robert J. Einhorn, from "The North Korea Nuclear Issue: The Road
Ahead," Policy Forum Online (September 14, 2004)
William Norman Grigg, senior editor of The New American, arguesthat
North Korea is a dangerous country with an untrustworthyregime and that
it is an error for the United States to react to NorthKorea's nuclear
arms program and other provocations by offering itdiplomatic and
economic incentives to be less confrontational. Robert J. Einhorn,
senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
and former assistant secretary of state for nonproliferation, maintains
that the idea that Pyongyang can be squeezed until it capitulates and
surrenders its nuclear weapons capabilities or collapses altogether is
wishful thinking.
ISSUE 9. Would It Be an Error to Establish a Palestinian State?
YES: P. J. Berlyn, from "Twelve Bad Arguments for a State of Palestine," A
Time to Speak, (December 2002)
NO: Rosemary E. Shinko, from "Why a Palestinian State," An Original Essay
Written for This Volume (2004)
P. J. Berlyn, an author of studies on Israel, primarily its ancient
history and culture, refutes 12 arguments supporting the creation of an
independent state of Palestine, maintaining that such a state would not
be wise, just, or desirable. Rosemary E. Shinko, who teaches in the
department of political science at the University of Connecticut,
contends that a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians must be
founded on a secure and sovereign homeland for both nations.
ISSUE 10. Was War with Iraq Justified?
YES: Richard Cheney, from "Meeting the Challenge of the War on Terrorism,"
Address at the Heritage Foundation (October 17, 2003)
NO: Robert Byrd, from "Invasion of Iraq," Remarks in the U.S. Senate,
Congressional Record (November 25, 2003)
Vice President Richard Cheney argues that Saddam Hussein's drive to
acquire weapons of mass destruction, links with terrorists, and brutal
dictatorship warranted U.S. action to topple his regime. West Virginia
Senator Robert Byrd criticizes the decision to invade Iraq in the first
place as ill-founded and further contends that the consequences have
been too costly.
ISSUE 11. Are Strict Sanctions on Cuba Warranted?
YES: Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, from "Hastening Cuba's
Transition ," Report to the President: 2004 (May 6, 2004)
NO: William Ratliff, from "The U.S. Embargo Against Cuba Is an Abysmal
Failure. Let's End It," Hoover Digest (Winter 2004)
The Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, which President George W.
Bush established on October 10, 2003, and charged with making
recommendations about how to hasten a transition to democracy in Cuba,
argues in its report to the president that the U.S. government should
take stronger measures to undermine the Castro regime and to promote
conditions that will help the Cuban people hasten the end of President
Fidel Castro's dictatorial regime. William Ratliff, a research fellow
at the Hoover Institution, argues that sanctions on Cuba only hurt the
Cuban people because nothing the United States is doing today
contributes significantly to the achievement of any change in the
Castro regime.
PART 3. Economic Issues ISSUE 12. Is Capitalism the Best Model for the
Global Economy?
YES: Johan Norberg, from "Three Cheers for Global Capitalism," American
Enterprise Online (June 2004)
NO: Walden Bello, from "Justice, Equity and Peace Are the Thrust of Our
Movement," Acceptance Speech at the Right Livelihood Award Ceremonies
(December 8, 2003)
Johan Norberg, a fellow at the Swedish think tank Timbro, portrays
capitalism as the path to global economic prosperity and argues further
that free markets and free trade mean free choices for individuals that
transfer power to them at the expense of political institutions. Walden
Bello, executive director of Focus on the Global South, the Bangkok,
Thailand-based project of Chulalongkorn University's Social Research
Institute, and professor of sociology and public administration at the
University of the Philippines, contends that global capitalism is the
source of societal and environmental destruction.
ISSUE 13. Should the Rich Countries Forgive All the Debt Owed by the Poor
Countries?
YES: Romilly Greenhill, from "The Unbreakable Link—Debt Relief and the
Millennium Development Goals," A Report from Jubilee Research at the New
Economics Foundation (February 2002)
NO: William Easterly, from "Debt Relief," Foreign Policy
(November/December 2001)
Romilly Greenhill, an economist with Jubilee Research at the New
Economics Foundation, contends that if the world community is going to
achieve its goal of eliminating world poverty by 2015, as stated in the
UN's Millennium Declaration, then there is an urgent need to forgive
the massive debt owed by the heavily indebted poor countries. William
Easterly, a senior adviser in the Development Research Group at the
World Bank, maintains that while debt relief is a popular cause and
seems good at first glance, the reality is that debt relief is a bad
deal for the world's poor.
PART 4. Issues About Violence ISSUE 14. Is Preemptive War an Unacceptable
Doctrine?
YES: High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change, from "A More
Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility," A Report to the Secretary General
of the United Nations (December 2, 2004)
NO: Steven L. Kenny, from "The National Security Strategy Under the United
Nations and International Law," Strategy Research Project, U.S. Army War
College (March 19, 2004)
The High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change, which was
appointed by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in response to
the global debate on the nature of threats and the use of force to
counter them, concludes that in a world full of perceived potential
threats, the risk to the global order posed by preemptive war is too
great for its legality to be accepted. Colonel Steven L. Kenny argues
in a research report he wrote at the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle
Barracks, Pennsylvania, that substantial support from the acceptability
of preemptive war results from such factors as the failure of the UN to
enforce its charter, customary international law, and the growing
threat of terrorists and weapons of mass destruction.
ISSUE 15. Is the War on Terrorism Succeeding?
YES: Douglas J. Feith, from "On the Global War on Terrorism," Address to
the Council on Foreign Relations (November 13, 2003)
NO: John Gershman, from "A Secure America in a Secure World," Report of the
Foreign Policy in Focus Task Force on Terrorism (September 1, 2004)
Douglas J. Feith, U.S. undersecretary of defense for policy, tells his
audience that in the global war on terrorism, the United States is
succeeding in defeating the terrorist threat to the American way of
life and argues that the terrorists are on the run, that the world is
safer and better for what has been accomplished, and that Americans
have much of which to be proud. John Gershman, who is co-director of
Foreign Policy in Focus for the Interhemispheric Resource Center and
teaches at the Robert F. Wagner School for Public Service at New York
University, contends that the "war on terrorism" being waged by the
administration of President George W. Bush reflects a major failure of
leadership and makes Americans more vulnerable rather than more secure.
ISSUE 16. Is Government-Ordered Assassination Sometimes Acceptable?
YES: Bruce Berkowitz, from "Is Assassination an Option?" Hoover Digest
(Winter 2002)
NO: Margot Patterson, from "Assassination as a Weapon," National Catholic
Reporter (September 6, 2002)
Bruce Berkowitz, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at
Stanford University, argues that while government-directed political
assassinations are hard to accomplish and are not a reliably effective
political tool, there are instances where targeting and killing an
individual is both prudent and legitimate. Margot Patterson, a senior
writer for National Catholic Reporter, contends that assassinations are
morally troubling, often counterproductive, and have a range of other
drawbacks.
PART 5. International Law and Organization Issues ISSUE 17. Is the United
Nations Fundamentally Flawed?
YES: Brett D. Schaefer, from "U.N. Requires Fundamental Reforms," Heritage
Lecture #842, Heritage Foundation (June 16, 2004)
NO: Mary Robinson, from "Relevance of the United Nations," Address to the
Plenary Session of the Conference on the Relevance of the United Nations
(June 26-28, 2003)
Brett D. Schaefer, the Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory
Affairs in the Center for International Trade and Economics at The
Heritage Foundation, contends that the UN is not doing as well as it
should in championing the principles set forth in its charter and that,
therefore, fundamental UN reform is required. Mary Robinson, the United
Nations high commissioner for human rights and a former president of
Ireland, argues that despite all the United Nations' shortcomings and
criticism, the UN is as relevant now as it was when created.
ISSUE 18. Should the United States Ratify the International Criminal Court
Treaty?
YES: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, from Statement Before the
Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives (July
25, 2000)
NO: John R. Bolton, from Statement Before the Committee on International
Relations, U.S. House of Representatives (July 25, 2000)
The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, in a statement submitted tothe
U.S. Congress, contends that the International Criminal Court (ICC) is
an expression, in institutional form, of a global aspiration for
justice. John R. Bolton, senior vice president of the
AmericanEnterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., contends that support
for aninternational criminal court is based largely on naive emotion
and thatadhering to its provisions is not wise.
ISSUE 19. Is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination Against Women Worthy of Support?
YES: Harold Hongju Koh, from Statement Before the Committee on Foreign
Relations, U.S. Senate (June 13, 2002)
NO: Christina P. Hoff-Sommers, from Statement Before the Committee on
Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate (June 13, 2002)
Harold Hongju Koh, the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of
International Law at Yale University and former assistant secretary of
state for human rights and democracy, contends that the United States
cannot be a global leader championing progress for women's human rights
around the world unless it is also a party to the global women's
treaty. Christina P. Hoff-Sommers, resident scholar at the American
Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., tells Congress that the United
States can and should help women everywhere to achieve the kind of
equity American women have. She maintains, however, that ratifying the
CEDAW is the wrong way to pursue that goal.
PART 6. People and the Environment ISSUE 20. Do Environmentalists Overstate
Their Case?
YES: Bjørn Lomborg, from "Debating 'The Skeptical Environmentalist,'" A
Debate Held at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
(April 9, 2002)
NO: Fred Krupp, from "Debating 'The Skeptical Environmentalist,'" A Debate
Held at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (April 9,
2002)
Professor of statistics Bjørn Lomborg argues that it is a myth that the
world is in deep troubl e on a range of environmental issues and that
drastic action must be taken immediately to avoid an ecological
catastrophe. Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense, asserts
that although Lomborg's message is alluring because it says we can
relax, the reality is that there are serious problems that, if not
addressed, will have a deleterious effect on the global environment.
ISSUE 21. Are Adequate Preparations Underway For a Possible Avian Influenza
Pandemic?
YES: Paula J. Dobriansky, from Testimony Before the Committee on Foreign
Relations, U.S. Senate (November 9, 2005)
NO: Laurie Garrett, from Testimony Before the Committee on Foreign
Relations, U.S. Senate (November 9, 2005)
Paula J. Dobriansky, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Democracy and
Global Affairs, contends that the United States government is taking
strong steps to deal with any outbreak of avian influenza among
Americans and is also exercising international leadership in preparing
the global response to the threat of bird flu. Laurie Garrett, Senior
Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations, tells Congress
that the U.S. and international efforts represent a good start, but no
more, and that much more needs to be done to prevent and, if necessary,
respond to an avian influenza pandemic.
ISSUE 22. Are U.S. Efforts to Control Global Warming Gas Emissions
Adequate?
YES: David Conover, from Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Global
Climate Change and Impacts, Commitee on Commerce, Science and
Transportation, U.S. Senate (July 20, 2005)
NO: Wesley B. Renfro, from "Kyoto and Beyond: America Will Gain by
Ratifying the Environmental Agreement," Original Essay Written for This
Volume (November 2005)
David Conover, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy and head
of the Office of Policy and International Affairs, maintains that the
Bush administration has developed a comprehensive strategy on climate
change that is informed by science, emphasizes innovation and
technological solutions, and promotes international collaboration to
support the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change. Wesley Renfro, a doctoral student in the Department of
Political Science, University of Connecticut, takes the position that
the United States should cooperate with the rest of the world by
signing the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emission and
abandon its unilateral and inadequate policy on global warming.