Publications

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...

The debate about the latest “new world order”-the third in this century alone–turns primarily on claims about the obsolescence of war and war-like behavior following the end of the cold war. Three claims in particular dominate recent discussions of...

The fall 1993 crisis in Moscow resulted in more than the forceful disbandment of the old Russian parliament. It marked Moscow’s rejection of the principle of integration with the West, ending one key stage in the debate within Boris...

Most current discussions of China’s relations with the rest of Asia tend to have a primarily eastward or southward focus-eastward to Taiwan, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula, or southward to the South China Sea, where China’s claims of sovereignty...

Professor Firuz Kazemzadeh of Yale University has cautioned against expecting the five Central Asian states–Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan–to develop into democracies in the near term: Democracy is a tender plant that has existed for only very short...

Meeting in Tashkent in January 1993, the presidents of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and the chairman of Tajikistan’s — parliament concluded their discussion of common concerns with what they saw to be a momentous declaration. The collective name of...

Public opinion polls confirm that the American people agree with the experts: U.S. foreign policy is in trouble. Behind the floundering, the American people sense an inner uncertainty: the president and his team are not sure of the American...

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Now that the (justifiable) hype and ceremony surrounding the fiftieth anniversary of D-Day is done, it’s time for the plaudits and plaints to begin in remembrance of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first men on the moon. The “greatest...