Publications

The August 1998 U.S. cruise missile attack on alleged terrorist targets in Afghanistan (and Sudan) captured the headlines, but it was not the most important story to come out of Afghanistan that month, or even that week. As the...

W hen the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Central Asians had no popular national movements to thank for the independence of their republics. If anything, their separation from Russia was reluctant, and it left the new states uncertain how...

As these words are written the NATO air armada is raining missiles and bombs on Serbian forces in Kosovo and Belgrade in another display of what some foreigners deride as America’s “Jupiter complex.” To much of the world the...

When Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui told a German interviewer this month that relations between the Republic of China on Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China were a form of state-to-state relations, a diplomatic firestorm predictably erupted over his...

An Address by Walter A. McDougall to a History Institute for Secondary School Educators and Junior College Faculty, organized by the History Academy of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 1-2, 1999 Nothing in my experience sums up the...

Globalization is often described as a process: steadily progressing over time, pervasively spreading over space, and clearly inevitable in its development. But globalization is also a revolution, one of the most profound revolutions the world has ever known. Indeed,...

In the early hours of September 1, 1983, a Soviet Su-15 fighter intercepted and shot down a Korean Airlines Boeing 747 after it had flown over the Kamchatka Peninsula. All 269 passengers and crew perished. While the United States...

In the early hours of September 1, 1983, a Soviet Su-15 fighter intercepted and shot down a Korean Airlines Boeing 747 after it had flown over the Kamchatka Peninsula. All 269 passengers and crew perished. While the United States...

During the Cold War, Western security interests focused almost exclusively on the central front of Europe. Other areas were considered of minor importance, and Soviet Central Asia and the Transcaucasus were usually dismissed as backwaters unworthy of Western attention....

A World Transformed. By George Bush and Brent Scowcroft. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998). Read the full article here....