Publications

I have been asked to speak to the question of the challenge of ethnic conflict in U.S. foreign policy. The subject, of course, could not be more timely because of the Balkan wars. I don’t intend to give you...

On September 13, 1999, Israel and the Palestinian Authority held a ceremonial opening of the final status talks ordained six years earlier by Oslo I. In fact, this was the third ceremonial opening of such talks: once in 1995,...

The war in Kosovo ended a few months ago, but the practice of “ethnic cleansing” is flourishing, this time perpetrated by ethnic Albanians who are proving even more adept at it than the Serbs. Whereas Serbian brutality and the...

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has apparently been set adrift. Ever since last February, when Turkey captured the terrorist organization’s leader, Abdullah Ocalan, the group has struggled— and largely failed— to maintain any sense of its former military or...

Like the printing press in sixteenth-century Europe, the combination of mass education and mass communications is transforming the Muslim majority world, a broad geographical crescent stretching from North Africa through Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and the Indonesian archipelago....

Why have China’s rulers launched a crackdown on Falun Gong? Why did party chiefs declare the group a serious threat to the Communist Party and the most grave danger to the regime since the Tiananmen movement of 1989? Why...

Ehud Barak’s victory over Benjamin Netanyahu in the May 17 Israeli election has been interpreted widely to mean the triumph of a secular, Oslo-supporting majority over a religious and nationalist opposition. But this fails to explain either the large...

What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy. By H. W. Brands. (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998). America’s Imperial Burden: Is the Past Prologue? By Ernest Lefever. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999). War...

The Brink of Peace: The Israeli-Syrian Negotiations. By Itamar Rabinovich. (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1998). The Process: 1,100 Days that Changed the Middle East. By Uri Savir. (New York: Random House, 1998). Read the full article here....

The Universe Below: Discovering the Secrets of the Deep Sea. By William J. Broad. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997). Secret Agencies: U.S. Intelligence in a Hostile World. By Loch K. Johnson. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996)....