Bin Laden’s Grand Miscalculation
Osama bin Laden, as best anyone can tell, wants Muslims to unite in a grand alliance, with him at...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Bin Laden’s Grand Miscalculation
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for E-Notes
Does Africa Exist?
The Organization of African Unity (OAU), founded in 1963 in Addis Ababa, is attempting a transformation of sorts. Last...
Politics, Law, and Resentment on the China Coast
China’s simmering discontent with its place in the world—and, more specifically, its relationship with the West and, more specifically...
U.S. Policy Toward Taiwan: Sustaining the Status Quo
The first several months of the George W. Bush administration have underscored a simple but vexing truth about the...
Bush’s First Foreign Policy Test: It’s Not What You Think
Relations with China and questions of policy concerning national missile defense and North Korea have dominated U.S. foreign policy...
Bush’s First Foreign Policy Test: It’s Not What You Think
Relations with China and questions of policy concerning national missile defense and North Korea have dominated U.S. foreign policy...
The Failure of the ABM Treaty
The Bush Administration’s urge to national missile defense has sparked yet another visitation of debate over the 1972 ABM...
The Election, Sausages, and Foreign Policy: The Virtues and Limits of Legalism in American Politics
The aftermath of the November 7 U.S. presidential election has been a boon to prominent lawyers with strong partisan...
While America Sleeps
In August 1919, the British government decided that the armed services were to make their plans for the future...
Goodbye To The Balkans
Only ten days elapsed between the Yugoslav election and the collapse of the Milosevic dictatorship. After a decade of...