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Marc T. Boucher

A Quebec Perspective

July 1, 1997

During the past year or so, we have witnessed more coverage of Canada and homegrown Canadian issues in the American media than at any other time in recent memory. As the Quebec referendum debate unfolded in 1995, Americans could...

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Paul Hollander

The Founding Fathers of Communism Reexamined

July 1, 1997

the Unknown Lenin: From the Secret Archives. Edited by Richard Pipes. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996). Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary. By Dmitri Volkogonov. (New York: The Free Press, 1996). Stalin. By Edvard Radzinsky. (New York: Doubleday, 1996)....

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Frederick R. Dickinson

Japan—Who listens?

July 1, 1997

The Idea of Japan: Western Images, Western Myths. By Ian Littlewood. (Chicago, Ill.: Ivan R. Dee, 1996). Japan’s Role in the Post-Cold War World. By Richard D. Leitch Jr., Akira Kato, and Martin E. Weinstein. (Westport, Corm.: Greenwood Press,...

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Hugh Segal

A Federalist Perspective

July 1, 1997

It is not hard to construct an elegant and moderate case for the inevitability of Quebec’s secession from Canada and to argue that such an outcome mirrors America’s setting aside of the colonial yoke and move to democratic self-determination....

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Marc T. Boucher

A Rejoinder

July 1, 1997

American scholars determined to understand the seemingly elusive nature of the Quebec-Canada debate owe a particular debt of gratitude to Hugh Segal. In an article that draws upon a wealth of personal experience, including many years of active political...

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David L. Asher

A U.S.-Japan Alliance for the Next Century

July 1, 1997

As the Clinton White House refines its global agenda for the second term, it would do well to begin by meditating on the unprecedented twists and turns of its policy towards America’s central ally in the Pacific: Japan, At...

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Donald P. Gregg

The Case for Continued U.S. Engagement

July 1, 1997

The countdown to the twenty-first century has begun. Almost daily some news medium reports the number of days remaining in this millennium, and the rich and famous around New York fret that the choice tables at fashionable spots have...

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Stanley Chan

The American Military Capability Gap

July 1, 1997

Alhough the three East Asia Strategic Initiatives (EASIs) and a number of recent statements from Washington stress the need for a prolonged US, military presence in the Asia-Pacific region, such proclamations have largely ignored two crucial issues: What kind of force...

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Felix K. Chang

China’s Central Asian Power and Problems

July 1, 1997

China’s northwest province of Xinjiang and Central Asia in general have been on the periphery of Chinese foreign policy discussions in recent years as Beijing’s assertive proclamations and actions have focused attention on China’s coast. Global apprehension ran high...

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David R. Henderson

Lessons of East Asia’s Economic Growth

July 1, 1997

Many analysts have suggested that Washington’s attempts to bring prosperity to poor and semi-poor countries in the Third World and former Second World should be based on lessons provided by East Asia’s economic success over the last thirty to...

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