Publications

One of the more troubling of post–Cold War international trends has been the advent of a ‘‘second nuclear age.’’ Rather than losing their relevance in these years, nuclear arms have become a new danger in this era, which is...

F or more than half a century, threats in the Persian Gulf have had repercussions beyond instability and conflict in the region itself. The Gulf has become a geopolitical and geo-economic epicenter for the rest of the world. This...

India and Israel both represent ancient civilizations and share a British colonial past. They were the first states to become independent (in 1947 and 1948, respectively) in the post–World War II wave of decolonization. Both were born out of...

The war on terrorism has brought Afghanistan and the Central Asian states into the spotlight of world politics, but the nearby region of the Caucasus between the Black and Caspian Seas, made up of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, is...

For much of the 1990s, Moscow let the former Soviet republics manage their own internal affairs with little overt Russian interference. The Russian Federation (RF) was initially preoccupied with its relations with the West and with internal efforts to...

Since its founding in 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become a central feature of Japan’s larger trade diplomacy. Tokyo has taken significant steps towards legalizing its trade disputes within the WTO, and, in marked contrast to its...

Arms control has been marginalized over the past several administrations. Even its most dedicated backers have failed to win support for it in key segments of American political life. It has also lost its way conceptually. Whether it was...

Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order. By Robert Kagan. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003). Anglosphere: The Future of the English-Speaking Nations in the Internet Era. By James C. Bennett. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman...

The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Final Showdown with the KGB. By Milt Bearden and James Risen. (New York: Random House, 2003). Read the full article here....

Jonathan Israel, The Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650–1750 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001). Darrin McMahon, Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford and New York: Oxford...