Publications

What does Puerto Rico mean to the United States? Strategically, this largest and most populous of a cluster of five Caribbean islands located between the Dominican Republic and the Virgin Islands commands the Mona Passage, a key shipping lane...

Would Puerto Rican statehood create an American Quebec? Statehood opponents would have you think so. In an opinion piece published shortly before the island’s most recent referendum on its political future, in December 1998, English Language Advocates founder Gerda...

In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America’s Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy. By Aaron L. Friedberg. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000). A Cross of Iron: Harry S. Truman and the Origins of the National Security...

Deterrence and Security in the Twenty-first Century: China, Britain, France, and the Enduring Legacy of the Nuclear Revolution. By Avery Goldstein. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000). Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons. By T. V. Paul....

Reagan in His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America. Edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson. (New York: Free Press, 2001). Read the full article here....

On August 6, 1945, President Truman made a brief statement to the American people to the effect that a single bomb with a yield greater than 20,000 tons of TNT had been dropped on a Japanese city. It marked,...

China’s simmering discontent with its place in the world—and, more specifically, its relationship with the West and, more specifically still, with the United States — has bubbled to the surface in several recent incidents. Forced to land on Hainan...

The first several months of the George W. Bush administration have underscored a simple but vexing truth about the United States’ Taiwan policy: the basic goal is deceptively easy to state but crafting the means for achieving it is...

On 12-13 February 2001, the Foreign Policy Research Institute hosted a major conference on the question of humanitarian intervention and its implications for American foreign policy. The conference brought together prominent scholars, journalists, and retired military professionals to examine...

Relations with China and questions of policy concerning national missile defense and North Korea have dominated U.S. foreign policy news in the first few months of the Bush Administration. Pundits qua amateur contemporary historians are already referring routinely to...