Publications

In the established church of foreign policy, no creed currently commands greater devotion than democratic pacifism: democracies share a form of government that prevents war between them. The idea is not new. Its academic champions credit a 1795 essay...

Waging Modern War. By Wesley K. Clark. (New York: Public Affairs/Perseus Group, 2001). NATO’s Empty Victory: A Postmortem on the Balkan War.  Edited by Ted Galen Carpenter (Washington D.C.: CATO Institute, 2000). Read the full article here....

Empire: The Russian Empire and Its Rivals. By Dominic Lieven. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001). Oxford History of the British Empire vol. III: The Nineteenth Century. Edited by Andrew Porter (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). Oxford History...

Without a Map: Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia. By Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000). The New Russia: Economic Transition Gone Awry. Edited by Lawrence R. Klein and Marshall Pomer. (Stanford: Stanford University Press,...

FPRI’s Vice President Alan Luxenberg has a puckish sense of humor, so I chuckled upon reading his six-word e-mail responding to my resignation as editor of Orbis: “I’m surprised you lasted so long!” I am, too, because when I...

The growing demand for guidance on teaching world religions in American high schools and colleges over the past few years prompted FPRI to devote its seventh annual History Institute in April 2001 to the subject. Our weekend conference brought...

This essay is a condensed version of an essay that appears in the Winter 2001/2002 issue of The National Interest(www.nationalinterest.org). With respect to what is sometimes characterized as taking out Saddam, I never saw a plan that was going to...

Thank you for your very kind comments and for the deeply appreciated honor which you and the board of FPRI have conveyed on me. In expressing my thanks, I would like to share a few words regarding my own...

Thank you very much for that kind introduction. I was here at an FPRI dinner honoring Robert Strausz-Hupé two or three years ago; Robert’s not well and couldn’t be here tonight, but he has many friends here— friends and...

A month into the war on terrorism, criticism of the Bush administration has begun to mount. Critics on the left are decrying the loss of innocent lives; critics on the right are asking why more is not being done....