In These Pages: FPRI’s 50th Anniversary
Fifty years ago, the United States was engaged in an epic struggle on a world scale: the Cold War...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
In These Pages: FPRI’s 50th Anniversary
A nation must think before it acts.
Categories for Orbis
Whither China?
The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future. By Elizabeth C. Economy. A Council on Foreign Relations...
How European Nations End
Die Krisen der Demokratie: Ein Gespra¨ch mit Antonio Polito by Ralf Dahrendorf. Munich: C. H. Beck Verlag, 2002. 114...
After Unification: Conversations with East Germans
The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 signaled the demise of the East German dictatorship, which had...
African Power Politics: A Historical Perspective
The coming of the Arabs and Arab Islam marked a great turning point in the history of the continent,...
Corruption and Foreign Aid in Africa
The recently released report of the UN Millennium Project, chaired by Jeffrey D. Sachs of Columbia University, advocates donor...
U.S. Military Fatalities in Iraq: A Two-Year Retrospective
After two years of war in Iraq, the United States has suffered more than 13,000 casualties—11,500 wounded and 1,500...
The New Bipartisanship within the Chinese Communist Party
‘‘I came too late,’’ Zhao Ziyang, former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, said to pro-democracy student demonstrators...
China Eyes the Hegemon
Concerned about foreign interference in ‘‘internal matters’’ (such as human rights, Tibet, and Taiwan), the Chinese government rarely comments...
Party Politics and Taiwan’s External Relations
Taiwan’s most controversial political issue is external relations. With barely two dozen diplomatic partners and no seat in the...