Publications

We are honored to dedicate this issue of Or& to the memory of William R. Kintner, director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute from 1969 to 1973, and president of FPRI from 1975 to 1982, His death on February...

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order: By Samuel P. Huntington. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996). Read the full article here....

America Adrift: A strategic Assessment: By Peter W. Rodman. (Washington, D.C.: Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, 1996). Freedom Betrayed: How America Led a Global Democratic Revolution, and Walked Away: By Michael A. Ledeen. (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1996). A...

Explorations in Strategy: By Colin S. Gray. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996). “Toward Post-Heroic Warfare.” By Edward N. Luttwak. In Foreign Affairs, May/June 1995. “A Post-Heroic Military Policy.” By Edward N. Luttwak. In Foreign Affairs, July/August 1996. “Casualties, Technology, and America’s...

Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico’s Road to Prosperity: By Andres Oppenheimer. (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996). Tiempo Contado (Borrowed time): By Enrique Krauze. (México, D.F.: Editorial Oceano de México, 1996).  The Mexican Shock: Its Meaning...

In post-cold war Europe, the Atlantic alliance has already proven that it has a continued, if rather new, role as the region’s principal provider of security. The newness of the role is highlighted by a process of “double enlargement”...

On September 3,1996, U.S. military force was used once again to attack Iraq, and once again the American president declared victory over Saddam Hussein. White House spokesmen explained how the discharge of $50 million in cruise missiles had humiliated...

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, American foreign policy thinkers have been striving to define a role for the United States in the post-cold war world. Their proposals have ranged from “strategic independence” on the isolationist pole to...

A political cartoon that appeared in Mexico’s popular Precso magazine in 1995 typified the widespread confusion about the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the Mexican economy. It depicted President Ernesto Zedillo as an impoverished street person...

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