The Foreign Service Journal, December 2003

D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 3 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 3 T HE M AGAZINE F OR F OREIGN A FFAIRS P ROFESSIONALS Foreign Service Journal (ISSN 0146-3543), 2101 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037-2990 is published monthly with a combined July/August issue by the American Foreign Service Association, a private, non-profit organization. Material appearing herein represents the opinions of the writers and does not necessarily represent the views of the Journal, the Editorial Board or AFSA. Writer queries and submissions are invited, preferably by e-mail. Journal subscription: AFSAMembers - $13 included in annual dues; others - $40. For foreign surface mail, add $18 per year; foreign airmail, $36 per year. Periodical postage paid at Washington, D.C., and at additional mail- ing offices. Postmaster: Send address changes to Foreign Service Journal , 2101 E Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037-2990. Indexed by Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS). The Journal is not responsible for unsolicited manuscripts, photos or illustrations. Advertising inquiries are invited. The appearance of advertisements herein does not imply the endorsement of the services or goods offered. FAX: (202) 338-8244 or (202) 338-6820. E- MAIL: journal@afsa.org. W EB: www.afsa.org. T ELEPHONE: (202) 338-4045. © American Foreign Service Association, 2003. Printed in the U.S.A. Send address changes to AFSA Membership, 2101 E Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037-2990. Printed on 50 percent recycled paper, of which 10 percent is post-consumer waste. Editor S TEVEN A LAN H ONLEY Associate Editor S USAN B. M AITRA Business Manager M IKKELA V. T HOMPSON Ad & Circulation Manager E D M ILTENBERGER AFSA News Editor S HAWN D ORMAN Art Director C ARYN J. S UKO Editorial Intern B ENJAMIN B ODNAR Advertising Intern H ONGYU C HEN Editorial Board J UDITH B AROODY , C HAIRMAN M ARK W. B OCCHETTI S TEPHEN W. B UCK T ATIANA C. G FOELLER C AROL A. G IACOMO W ILLIAM W. J ORDAN L AURIE K ASSMAN H OLLIS S UMMERS B ILL W ANLUND T ED W ILKINSON F O C U S O N W O R L D E N E R G Y 23 / I NTERNATIONAL O IL S UPPLY : H OW V ULNERABLE A RE W E ? Thirty years after the 1973 Arab boycott revolutionized the global energy map, oil is still the focus of concern. By Amy Myers Jaffe and Jillene Connors 31 / U.S.-R USSIA E NERGY D IALOGUE : P OLICY , P ROJECTS OR P HOTO O P ? The U.S.-Russia energy partnership was launched with great fanfare one year ago. It’s time to look at what we really want, and what we can expect. By Edward C. Chow 40 / M AKING THE M OST OF U.S.-C ANADA E NERGY T IES The realization that our largest and most dependable energy supplier is sitting to our north has yet to sink into most Americans’ consciousness. By John Stewart 47 / G AS P IPELINES AND THE N ORTH K OREAN N UCLEAR C RISIS The key to resolving the North Korean crisis may be a new agreement combining a natural gas pipeline with a scaled-down nuclear energy program. By Selig S. Harrison 54 / L IFTING THE N ATURAL R ESOURCE C URSE Increasing transparency and accountability will help developing nations use their natural resources to grow. By Thomas I. Palley 62 / I CELAND : P IONEERING THE H YDROGEN E CONOMY Iceland has undertaken an experiment which, if successful, will make it the world’s first hydrogen economy by the year 2050. By Ásgeir Sigfússon C ONTENTS D e c emb e r 2 0 0 3 ■ Vo l ume 8 0 , No . 1 2 F E A T U R E S “T HE F IRST A MERICAN O FFICIAL K ILLED IN T HIS W AR ” / 66 Army Captain Robert M. Losey, America’s first military casualty in World War II, would not be its last. By J. Michael Cleverley O N A MERICAN E XPERIENCE / 69 A Sri Lankan-American maps the contours of the American Dream. By Indran Amirthanayagam S C H O O L S U P P L E M E N T A F RENCH -B ASED E DUCATION ? M AIS O UI ! / 77 Foreign Service parents may wish to consider French-language schools. By Roy L. Whitaker and Ninette G.V. Whitaker S CHOOLS A T A G LANCE / 90 Essential data on educational choices. Cover and inside illustrations by Josh Dorman C O L U M N S P RESIDENT ’ S V IEWS / 5 The Power of One and the Power of Many By John Limbert L ETTER FROM THE E DITOR / 7 S PEAKING O UT / 15 The Foreign Service and the Quality of Intelligence By Charles O. Cecil FS F INANCES / 20 IRAs and You By Stephen Thompson R EFLECTIONS / 108 By Dennis Watson D E P A R T M E N T S L ETTERS / 9 C YBERNOTES / 12 B OOKS / 73 I NDEX T O A DVERTISERS / 106 AFSA N EWS / C ENTER I NSERT