Publications

The astonishing fact about the end of the cold war is that the events of 1989-92 ushered in a new international system, perhaps for the first time in history, without a hegemonic war. The unraveling of the Soviet empire...

The U.S. defense industry is adjust~g to the end of the cold war far more rapidly and effectively than was generally expected. Many of the changes to date have been painful and the end of the adjustment process is...

Between the signing of the Hebron accord on January 15, 1997, and the various troubles in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process that began in earnest in March, much Arab-Israeli diplomatic activity focused on restarting the moribund Israeli-Syrian track. Virtually all...

The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War & Peace, 1989-1992. By James A. Baker III with Thomas M. DeFranks. (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1995). Germany United and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft. By Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice....

The Legacy of Woodrow Wilson: American War Arims in World War I. By David M. Esposito. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 1996). The Wilsonian Impulse: U.S. Foreign Policy, the Alliance, and German Unification. By Mary N. Hampton. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger...

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Fifty years ago “The Sources of Soviet Conduct” appeared in the pages of Foreign Affairs. The most influential essay in the history of U.S. diplomacy, it promoted what was arguably the most effective American doctrine since Monroe’s: Containment. George...

On October 28, 1898, a squadron of Turkish Janissaries swept by the Mikve Israel school near Yaffo followed by German cavalry at full gallop, their sabres gleaming in the midday sun. Then, a quarter mile back came Kaiser Wilhelm...

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...

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...