Publications

My charge today, I gather, is to address the referendum and perhaps more broadly the “new constitution” issues in Taiwan in the context of international legal questions of Taiwan’s status. The referendum and the constitutional reform discussion can best...

Freedom of speech permits the support of terrorism, as long as you are only providing “expert advice and assistance” to groups the federal government has designated as “foreign terrorist organizations.” So says a California district judge, in a decision...

This essay is based on a talk to the FPRI Sponsors Forum on January 29, 2004. The Forum is regularly hosted by Pepper Hamilton LLP (www.pepperlaw.com).  The Middle East has been divided for decades between radical forces challenging the...

I have a truly bizarre assignment of talking about property rights in China. As many of you know, a big part of the discussion of constitutional reform right now, is about the inclusion of provisions relating to property rights....

One hundred years ago tonight, Sir Halford John Mackinder presented his paper, “The Geographical Pivot of History” (published in the April 1904 Geographical Journal) to London’s Royal Geographical Society. He argued that the “closed heartland of Euro-Asia” was the...

Just as it took a few years after World War II for the nature of the Cold War and the strategy of containment to become evident, so too the reality of the Bush doctrine and the practicalities of waging...

Arnold J. Toynbee, a British delegate at the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference, records an anecdote about the annoyance caused there by the flamboyant personal diplomacy of T. E. Lawrence. Though a British subject, Lawrence was a member of the...

Using historical evidence to provide rapid support for policy advice is all too easy in a crisis, yet it is valuable to offer a historical resonance to current problems. This has certainly been the case over the last two...

Mankind today is on the brink of a precipice, not because of the danger of complete annihilation which is hanging over its head—this being just a symptom and not the real disease—but because humanity is devoid of those vital...

George W. Bush is a man of genuine religious conviction. Since September 11, 2001, his personal religiosity has had a marked effect on U.S. foreign policy. But observers draw different conclusions as to what the effect has been. In...