Publications

The 1990s pose a test for the world system unlike any before. For the first time in modern history, as many non-Western countries as Western ones occupy the ranks of great powers. Following half a millennium of Western ascendancy,...

North Korea in recent years has linked its survival to that of its neighbors through a dangerous but nonetheless carefully designed military structure that makes its survival press sharply on that of its neighbors. The fragility of its internal...

The most important bilateral relationship in the world “bar none” is how Ambassador Mike Mansfield frequently referred to U.S.-Japan ties during his tenure as U.S. ambassador in Tokyo. Although some of my former Pentagon colleagues demurred that during the...

As the years of Deng Xiaoping’s paramountcy draw to a close, the most fundamental issues facing the People’s Republic of China today-official pronouncements notwithstanding-are in essence the same that confronted the USSR a decade ago when Konstantin Chemenko died:...

With the implosion of the Soviet Union, a second Pax Americana should have dawned across the Pacific with a brilliance unrivaled since the closing days of World War II. America’s economic, military, and ideological rival for the hearts and...

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Apartheid’s Genesis 1935-1962. Edited by Philip Bonner, Peter Delius, Deborah Posel. (Braamfontein: Ravan Press, and Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1993). Policing South Africa: The South African Police and the Transition from Apartheid. By Gavin Cawthra. (Atlantic Highways, New Jersey:...

On Looking into the abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society. By Gertrude Himmelfarb. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994). Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science. By Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt. (Baltimore, Md.:...

Diplomacy. By Henry Kissinger. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994). Read the full article here....

Like most military units, the U.N. Protection Forces (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia operate under explicit Rules of Engagement (ROE), or written orders defining when the troops can use force. The ROE printed here were issued by General Jean Cot, then...