Publications

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...

The matter of learning lessons from history has been a prodigious source of aphorism and free advice. George Santayana famously warned that those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it. Aldous Huxley quipped...

The Bush Administration’s urge to national missile defense has sparked yet another visitation of debate over the 1972 ABM Treaty. This is depressing news, for ABM Treaty debate reminds one of Brigadoon. Like the fabled village of a rancidly...

In early March 1997, a Chinese oil rig, the Kantan III, entered the waters between Hainan Island and the Vietnamese coast to explore for oil and natural gas in what Beijing considered a part of its Ledong exploration area....

The geopolitical revolution begun in 1989 has caused much consternation for the practitioners and analysts of international affairs, but the U.S. military has arguably had the most difficult time reacting to and accepting the unfolding international security environment. Although...

The new administration needs to consider the future of strategic arms and the role arms control may play in managing the nuclear balance. Strategic arms control, embodied in the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START), originated during the Cold War...

George W. Bush’s new administration has been dealt a difficult hand in the Middle East. With fighting in the West Bank and Gaza, volatile oil prices, airline hijackings, terrorist threats and attacks, and provocative Iraqi troop movements, the president...

In the aftermath of India’s May 1998 nuclear tests, two major policy challenges confront the U.S. government and the global nonproliferation community. The first is simply how to deal with a de facto nuclear weapon state unfettered by regional...

Like many other countries, Israel is rethinking its security. Although it was the prime beneficiary of changes in the strategic environment over the past decade, systemic transformations have also brought new uncertainties and challenges that complicate Israel’s policy choices...

At any given time during the past decade, several ethnic conflicts have raged around the world. In the year 2001, these include such wellknown cases as Kosovo, Chechnya, Israel, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia. In the view of many...