Publications

Mr. Turzanski led off, noting that the Report is more political than military. What may surprise or disappoint some is that it isn’t a strategy for victory, at least not in the conventional military sense. But the ISG came...

The Chief of U.S. Naval Operations, Admiral Mike Mullen, announced earlier this year his plans to develop and promulgate a new Maritime Strategy. This publication will be the latest in a long line of strategic pronouncements produced by the...

Democracy and Terrorism The United States wishes to use democracy in a double capacity, first to unsettle current enemies and second, through regime change, as a long-term inoculation against terrorism. Applied to terrorism in general and the Middle East...

The past few decades have borne out the warning made more than thirty years ago by Jacques Ellul, the French moral philosopher and sociologist, that the phenomenal development of mass media would revolutionize politics, with the flood of information...

In Fall 2005, Orbis commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Strausz-Hupé’s founding of FPRI with an issue dedicated to geopolitics and American strategy. Strausz-Hupé was critical of the short-sighted, politically driven responses that he saw prevailing in the early...

Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004). Murray Friedman, The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals on the Shaping of Public Policy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Francis...

Michael R. Auslin. Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2004. Yukio Ito. Showa tenno to rikken kunshusei no hokai: Mutsuhito, Yoshihito kara Hirohito e (The Showa Emperor and...

Abstract This article seeks to make sense of the policy debate on constitutional revision underway in Japan, to consider what international and domestic factors are driving the debate forward, to assess the range of proposals currently on the table,...

Abstract In contrast to the Clinton administration, which tried to isolate Sudan, George W. Bush initiated a dialogue with Khartoum and followed a “constructive engagement” policy. Three factors explain this radical change in U.S foreign policy: the influence of...

Abstract Current tensions between the United States and Europe have raised questions about the future of the transatlantic relationship, though historical analysis suggests that the good old days were not perfect either. This article considers the history of U.S.-European...