China: The Forgotten Nuclear Power Washington is leaving a crucial piece out of the nuclear puzzle. It will be China not Russia or any rogue who’s nuclear policy will concern America most in the years ahead. The People's Republic has started to modernize its arsenal Western actions will help determine just what form China's force ultimately takes. Before rushing to deploy missile defenses Washington should consider whether they would solve a problem or create one

The world's newest country has become the U.N.'s pet project: an experiment in "nation-building." With its resilient political culture, East Timor is unusually well suited to the project. But the U.N. is finding that governing is harder than separating warring parties-especially when the country has been razed to the ground. And popular resentment is mounting. Rebuilding East Timor physically will be the easy part. Creating a democracy from scratch will be far more difficult

The French Exception Anti-Americanism stubborn Gaullist independence in foreign policy have often marked French political discourse. These traits are coming to the fore once again in France's wildly popular ant globalization movement. Today a complex mix of political economic cultural reasons explain the French resistance to "Anglo-Saxon global capitals." If sustained France's stand could become a model for other countries seeking an alternative to the new American-style world economy