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Walter A. McDougall

Editor’s Column Fall 1996

October 1, 1996

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G. Cameron Hurst, III

Samurai, Ninjas, and Salary Men: What the Martial Arts Really Tell Us About Japan

September 15, 1996

The success of James Clavell’s Shogun as both novel and miniseries demonstrated the popular appeal of the samurai to modern Americans. A spate of other novels with Japanese warriors or ninjas, plus the popularity of figures like Bruce Lee...

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Felix K. Chang

Beijing’s Reach in the South China Sea

July 7, 1996

Since the early 1980s, China has consistently sought to accelerate the modernization of its conventional forces. The essence of that new policy was captured by Chinese strategists in a “set of eight Chinese characters: zongti fanquei, zhongdian jazhan (strengthen...

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Patrick Clawson

Environmental Fevers and Cold Facts

July 1, 1996

The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century. By Robert Kaplan. (New York: Random House, 1996). The True State of the Planet. Edited by Ronald Bailey. (New York: The Free Press, 1995). The...

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Edward A. Lynch

Central America Departs Center Stage

July 1, 1996

The Guerrilla Wars of Central America: Nicaragua, El Salvador & Guatemala. By Saul Landau. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993). The Struggle for Peace in Central America. By Dario Moreno. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994). States and Social...

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George W. Grayson

New Players on the Mexican Scene

July 1, 1996

First World, Ha Ha Ha! The Zapatista Challenge. Edited by Elaine Katzenberger. (San Francisco, Calif.: City Light, 1995). Shadows of Tender Fury: The letters and Communiques of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Translated by Frank...

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Guy J. Pauker

Indonesia at Fifty

July 1, 1996

A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s. By Adam Schwarz. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994). Indonesian Politics Under Suharto: Order, Development and Pressure for Change. By Michael R.J. Vatikiotis. (New York: Routledge, 1994). Indonesia in ASEAN: Foreign Policy...

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David Gress

Is “the West” Religious or Secular?

July 1, 1996

We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that individuals would do better to avail themselves of...

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Larry Diamond

Why the United States Must Remain Engaged

July 1, 1996

The 1990s are a fertile, formative period for world politics and American foreign policy. With the collapse of the Soviet empire and the end of the cold war, bipolar global competition is over, the Soviet threat to Western Europe...

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Ira M. Lapidus

A Sober Survey of the Islamic World

July 1, 1996

Islam inspires fear and fascination in the Western imagination. It calls to mind puritanical holy warriors, fanatics, dervishes, suicide bombers, hijackers, and human waves thrown into battle. The strange fulminations of a Khomeini, Qaddafi, or Saddam Hussein about martyrdom...

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