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Kevin J. McNamara

International Media and U.S. Foreign Policy

October 1, 1996

Lights, Camera, War Is Media Technology Driving Internutional Politics? ByJohanna Neuman. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996). Negotiating in the Public Eye: The Impact of the Press on the Intermediate-RangeNuclear Force Negotiations. By Marc A. Genest. (Stanford, Calif.: StanfordUniversity...

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Bruce Berkowitz

Reform of the Intelligence Community

October 1, 1996

Preparing for the 21st Century: An Appraisal of U.S. Intelligence. By the Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1996). IC21: Intelligence Community in the 21st Century. By...

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Janusz Bugajski

Blood and Soil in Bosnia

October 1, 1996

Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village. By Tone Bringa. (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1995. 281 pp. $17.95, paper.) The Bosnian Muslims: Denial of a Nation. By Francine Friedman. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview...

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William A. Rusher

The Vindication of American Anti-Communism

October 1, 1996

Operation Solo: The FBI’s Man in the Kremlin. By John Barron. (Washington D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1996). Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism. By Richard Gid Powers. (New York: The Free Press, 1995). McCarthy and his Enemies: The...

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Graham E. Fuller, John Arquilla

The Intractable Problem of Regional Powers

October 1, 1996

New forces at work in the post-cold war world are changing the strategic environment in which American foreign policy operates. Chief among these is the emergence or return of states that are creating new configurations of regional power. ‘These...

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Adam Garfinkle

U.S.-Israeli Relations After the Cold War

October 1, 1996

The U.S.-Israeli relationship is almost universally described as special, and rightly so. In the economic sphere, for instance, Israel has long been the recipient of the single largest amount of American aid-for a country of only 5.5 million people....

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Martha Brill Olcott

Demographic Upheavals in Central Asia

October 1, 1996

Independence came suddenly to the states of Central Asia, with advance notice of only a few weeks, and the populations in those states were far from unanimous in desiring sovereign statehood. To be sure, many in the new states...

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Stephen Blank

Russia’s Return to Mideast Diplomacy

October 1, 1996

As Lebanon’s recent crisis shows, Middle Eastern states remain structurally A weak and poorly consolidated, with strong rival claimants to state authority and internal divisions that invite foreign states’ intrusion and rivalry. Two of the region’s countries, Iraq and Libya,...

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Sumner Benson

Deep-Strike Weapons and Strategic Stability

October 1, 1996

Russia and the Western powers agree that long-range conventional weapons are central to modern warfare but disagree as to whether such weapons are primarily defensive or primarily offensive. The United States and its allies have developed and deployed deep-strike...

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Walter A. McDougall

Editor’s Column Fall 1996

October 1, 1996

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