Turkey and the West
This past summer I had the pleasure (albeit it was no easy task) of reviewing two thick books of...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Turkey and the West
A nation must think before it acts.
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Flashpoints in East Asia: Hot, Hotter, Hottest
The Taiwan Strait: Hottest The possibility of tension escalating over the Taiwan issue was by far the most contested...
America and the World at the Dawn of a New Century
November 10, 1999 Several people, including our host Ron Naples, whose burden it was to introduce this lecture, have...
How to Think About Ethnic Conflict
I have been asked to speak to the question of the challenge of ethnic conflict in U.S. foreign policy....
The Coming Transformation of the Muslim World
Like the printing press in sixteenth-century Europe, the combination of mass education and mass communications is transforming the Muslim...
Religion and Globalization
Globalization is often described as a process: steadily progressing over time, pervasively spreading over space, and clearly inevitable in...
The Wisdom of Robert Strausz-Hupé
The following essay is adapted from remarks delivered at the ninety-fifth birthday party for Ambassador Robert Strausz-Hupé, held at...
Military Culture Does Matter
Does military culture matter? Students of either military history or current military institutions have devoted little attention to it,...
Religion in Diplomatic History
Everyone talks, but hardly anyone thinks or does anything about it. I refer to the upsurge in awareness of...
Why Some Neo-Cons Are Wrong About U.S. Foreign Policy
Experience and history teach only this, wrote the philosopher Hegel in 1827: that people and governments never learn anything...