U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq: Year 3
Abstract With year four of the Iraq War under way, this article focuses on the sources, patterns, and effects...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq: Year 3
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Orbis
Are Great-Power Politics Extinct?
Thomas P.M. Barnett, The Pentagon’s New Map (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2004); and Blueprint for Action: A...
Views from the Top
Richard N. Haass, The Opportunity: America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course (New York: PublicAffairs, 2005). David Rothkopf, Running the...
The Privatization of Security: Lessons from Iraq
Abstract Images of private forces in Iraq—killed and mutilated in Fallujah, implicated in prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, and...
North Korea: The Case for Strategic Entanglement
Abstract North Korea is a state shrouded in secrecy, yet it receives an enormous amount of media attention. Its...
The U.S.-Indian Nuclear Agreement: Balancing Energy Needs and Nonproliferation Goals
Abstract President Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India signed a statement of intent in 2005 to allow...
In These Pages Spring 2006
In the early 2000s, writers on international affairs spent considerable time discussing the potential, and even the necessity, for...
Imperial Allies
Abstract The United States has had, and will continue to have, a difficult time gathering allies because of the...
Strategies for Managing Rogue States
Abstract In the ongoing debates on how to manage relations with rogue states such as North Korea and Iran,...
Wolfish Wilsonians: Existential Dilemmas of the Liberal Internationalists
Abstract There are limits on America’s ability to bring democracy to deeply divided societies with little or no history...