A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Editor’s Column Spring 1996
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Orbis
Who Won the Cold War-and Why it Matters
The Great Transition: America-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War. By Raymond L. Garthoff. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings...
Peace and the Pursuit of Power
The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848. By Paul W. Schroeder. (Oxford: Clarendon, Press, 1994). Read the full article here....
War, Law, and the United Nations
Coate, Roger. United States Policy and the Future of the United Nations. (New York: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1994)....
Decapitalizing Russian Capitalism
As a reform-minded economist in 1990, Grigory Yavlinskii was one of the principal authors of Transition to the Market,...
Allied Support for Theater Missile Defense
In December 1993, then secretary of defense Les Aspin launched the Counterproliferation Initiative (CPI). As Aspin envisioned it, the...
To Build an Affordable Shield
Since the missile age began in the latter days of World War II, scientists and engineers have been trying...
Arms Control is Not Enough
A principal U.S. security concern during the last few years has been the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction...
Why We Must Act at Once
An emergency meeting between the president and his top national security advisors has been called to discuss a large...
The Paradox of Presidential Campaigns
Foreign policy issues were a distinctly minor concern in the 1992 presidential election campaign, Some pundits, ever eager to...