NGOs: A ‘New Class’ in International Relations
Abstract Nongovernmental organizations have attempted to take control of civil society, displacing traditional governing institutions. This serves the interests...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
NGOs: A ‘New Class’ in International Relations
A nation must think before it acts.
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In These Pages Spring 2007
In These Pages For at least the past two years, the public discussion about America’s place in the world...
The Great Game and the Endgame in Afghanistan
Jawbreaker—The Attack on Bin Laden and al-Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA’s Key Field Commander. By Gary Berntsen...
The Two Streams of Western Civilization
Christopher Olaf Blum, ed., Critics of the Enlightenment: Readings in the French Counter-Revolutionary Tradition (Wilmington: ISI Books, 2004). Michael...
Russia: “European But Not Western?”
Abstract The question whether Russia is part of the Western world has plagued Russian intellectuals and Western observers alike...
Putin’s Silovarchs
Abstract Since the late 1990s, most of Boris Yeltsin’s oligarchs have left the political stage. In their place, a...
What Next for NATO?
Abstract Whether or not nato still matters depends on whether or not it is able to deliver security where...
Containing Pakistan: Engaging the Raja-Mandala in South-Central Asia
Abstract Recent events have refocused attention on Pakistan’s role as an epicenter of global Islamist terror and called into...
Iraq: A Look Back
Abstract Although the diversity of the Iraqi people has in the past hindered any sense of national identity, their...
Understanding the Taliban and Insurgency in Afghanistan
Abstract Afghanistan is in danger of capsizing in a perfect storm of insurgency that mimics operations and tactics witnessed...