Publications

Since the early 1980s, China has consistently sought to accelerate the modernization of its conventional forces. The essence of that new policy was captured by Chinese strategists in a “set of eight Chinese characters: zongti fanquei, zhongdian jazhan (strengthen...

The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century. By Robert Kaplan. (New York: Random House, 1996). The True State of the Planet. Edited by Ronald Bailey. (New York: The Free Press, 1995). The...

The Guerrilla Wars of Central America: Nicaragua, El Salvador & Guatemala. By Saul Landau. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993). The Struggle for Peace in Central America. By Dario Moreno. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994). States and Social...

First World, Ha Ha Ha! The Zapatista Challenge. Edited by Elaine Katzenberger. (San Francisco, Calif.: City Light, 1995). Shadows of Tender Fury: The letters and Communiques of Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Translated by Frank...

A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s. By Adam Schwarz. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1994). Indonesian Politics Under Suharto: Order, Development and Pressure for Change. By Michael R.J. Vatikiotis. (New York: Routledge, 1994). Indonesia in ASEAN: Foreign Policy...

We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that individuals would do better to avail themselves of...

The 1990s are a fertile, formative period for world politics and American foreign policy. With the collapse of the Soviet empire and the end of the cold war, bipolar global competition is over, the Soviet threat to Western Europe...

Islam inspires fear and fascination in the Western imagination. It calls to mind puritanical holy warriors, fanatics, dervishes, suicide bombers, hijackers, and human waves thrown into battle. The strange fulminations of a Khomeini, Qaddafi, or Saddam Hussein about martyrdom...

Colonel General Valerii Mironov, a former deputy defense minister and now the principal military advisor to Russia’s premier, recently stated that the “Cold War still goes on and only one definite period of it is over.” To be sure,...

Since the early 1980s, China has consistently sought to accelerate the modernization of its conventional forces. The essence of that new policy was captured by Chinese strategists in a “set of eight Chinese characters: zongti fanqwei; zhongdian fazhan (strengthen...