Allies and Other Strangers: European Integration and the American “Empire by Invitation”
Abstract Current tensions between the United States and Europe have raised questions about the future of the transatlantic relationship,...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Allies and Other Strangers: European Integration and the American “Empire by Invitation”
A nation must think before it acts.
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Projecting Confidence, Not Fear: Russia’s Post-Imperial Assertiveness
Abstract Contrary to the increasingly popular image of Russia as an aggressive, imperialist state, the primary drivers in Russia’s...
Democracy in Georgia Since the Rose Revolution
Abstract Success for Georgia’s nascent democracy would be a major success for the democracy-promotion efforts of the United States,...
The Political Economy of Georgia’s Rose Revolution
Abstract The Rose Revolution opened a new chapter in the history of modern Georgia. The post-revolution government achieved a...
Democratization Without Decommunization in the Balkans
Abstract Since recent U.S.-led democratization projects having led in some cases to the election of Islamist movements, the old...
“Reformology”: The Case of Slovakia
Abstract Over the eight years beginning with the election of a reformist government in September 1998, Slovakia achieved a...
Building a Democratic Market Society in Hungary
Abstract Hungary’s ability to become an internationally integrated democratic market society by 2000 was facilitated by its point of...
Global Patterns and Postcommunist Dynamics
Abstract Many of the new democracies that have been formed since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991...
In These Pages Summer 2006
The grueling U.S. war in Iraq and the challenges it has presented to the U.S. military have wonderfully concentrated...
Civil-Militarism: The Civilian Origins of the New American Militarism
Andrew J. Bacevich, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)....