Japan’s “Coalition of the Willing” on Security Policies
In 1991, Japan was vilified by many for its ‘‘failure’’ to contribute boots on the ground to the U.S.-led...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Japan’s “Coalition of the Willing” on Security Policies
A nation must think before it acts.
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A Cold Peace: The Changing Security Equation in Northeast Asia
Since Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi took office in April 2001, his administration has considerably strengthened Japan’s ties with the...
Japan and South Korea: The New East Asian Core
East Asia’s geopolitical order has been static since the Korean armistice in 1953. Today its familiar face is transforming...
Can the West Win Muslim Hearts and Minds?
Despite the intense international coverage of the murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh last year, most people...
In These Pages Summer 2005
The current foreign-policy focus of most Americans is upon the Middle East and more broadly upon the Muslim world....
A Post-Imperial Power? Britain and the Royal Navy
For a century and a half, from the Napoleonic Wars to World War II, the British Empire was the...
The Long Shadow: Europe, the United States, and the Great War
David Fromkin, Europe’s Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? (New York: Knopf, 2004). Richard M. Gamble,...
Afghan Heroin: Terrain, Tradition, and Turmoil
The war on terrorism brought the impoverished country of Afghanistan to the forefront of world attention. However, even before...
South Asian Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks
I n the United States, terrorism and organized crime have until recently been considered separate problems to be dealt...
Ignoring History: U.S. Democratization in the Muslim World
The most important undertaking of the first George W. Bush administration was its war in Iraq. Now, at the...