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Home / Publication Issues / Orbis Fall 1997

Orbis Fall 1997

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  • Orbis
  • Fall 1997
  • Volume 41
  • Number 4

Editor’s Column Fall 1997

  • Walter A. McDougall

Article References

What We Mean by the West

  • William H. McNeill

The Drama of Modern Western Identity

  • David Gress

The West’s Stake in Russia’s Future

  • James H. Billington

NATO Expansion and the Idea of the West

  • James Kurth

Images of the Coming International System

  • Robert E. Harkavy

The U.S. Defense Industry After the Cold War

  • Murray Weidenbaum

Israel’s Abiding Troubles in Lebanon

  • Adam Garfinkle

Review Essays

NATO Germany and Pragmatism’s Finest Hour

  • Harvey Sicherman

The Wilsonian Legacy in the Twentieth Century

  • Francis J. Gavin

Russian Foreign Policy in Search of a Nation

  • Yaroslav Bilinsky

The Unwinnable War on the Drug Trade

  • Patrick Lloyd Hatcher

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