Publications

Turkey and Israel, by all accounts the predominant powers in the Middle East, have in the past decade forged an unlikely alliance that baffles many a keen observer of the region. On the face of it, there would seem...

Since the end of the Cold War, Turkish diplomacy has been active a` tous azimuths, not least the northeastern. In the many, often contentious republics that arose in the Caucasus after the Soviet crack-up, Turkish leaders perceive opportunities to...

American foreign policy in the past century has frequently been shaped not by the realities confronted by diplomats and soldiers, but by an idealistic longing to remake the world in the United States’ own image. The first American attempt...

When our eight-person congressional staff delegation flew into New Delhi on January 9, 2000, four months had passed since Congress lifted economic sanctions against India for its May 1998 nuclear weapons test. It had been three months since the...

Before he left on his trip to South Asia in March 2000, President Clinton referred to that region as “the most dangerous place” on earth. His comment was inspired by the perception shared by many in Washington that rising...

American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. By David E. Kaiser. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000). Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. By Fredrik Logevall. (Berkeley:...

Operation Rollback: America’s Secret War behind the Iron Curtain. By Peter Grose. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000). Undermining the Kremlin: America’s Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947Û1956. By Gregory Mitrovich. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000). Broadcasting Freedom: The...

Fixing the Spy Machine: Preparing American Intelligence for the Twenty-First Century. By Arthur S. Hulnick. (New York: Praeger, 1999). Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy. By Mark M. Lowenthal. (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1999). On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy...

I am delighted that Orbis is devoting a large part of this issue to the Republic of Turkey. Many strategic observations have been written and will continue to be written about this vital country, its status as the key...

So the world did not end this January 1 either, even though 2001 marks the true beginning of the new millennium. But if the most fevered of spiritual speculations about the thousand-year reign of the saints were not reified,...