Publications

Japan embarked on internationalization (kokusaika) as a national objective more than a decade ago. As advertised, this open-door policy (kaikoku) was to involve, not only liberalization of trade and the opening of markets to foreign goods, but also reform...

The Japanese economy is at a crossroads. Forty years of superlative economic expansion have been followed by more than four years of severe stagnation. Japan seems mired in a bog, weighed down by a series of financial crises unprecedented...

Abstract Throughout the twentieth century, many countries have recovered suddenly from rapid inflation and economic stagnation, and have then begun to enjoy years of noninflationary prosperity. The results have often been called “economic miracles”—the Poincaré miracle in France, the...

Did the Bretton Woods monetary system really provide for economic stability and international cooperation over the quarter century following World War II? That is certainly the conventional wisdom among statesmen, foreign-policy analysts, and academics. The institutions and rules established by...

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The Great Transition: America-Soviet Relations and the End of the Cold War. By Raymond L. Garthoff. (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1994). Victory: The Reagan Administration’s Secret Strategy that Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union. By Peter Schweizer. (New...

The Transformation of European Politics, 1763-1848. By Paul W. Schroeder. (Oxford: Clarendon, Press, 1994). Read the full article here....

Coate, Roger. United States Policy and the Future of the United Nations. (New York: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1994). Damrosch, Lori Fisler, ed. Enforcing Restraint: Collective Intervention in Internal Conflicts. (New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press, 1993). Dinstein,...

As a reform-minded economist in 1990, Grigory Yavlinskii was one of the principal authors of Transition to the Market, a work perhaps better known as “The Five Hundred Days Plan.” He is now a politician, a member of the...

In December 1993, then secretary of defense Les Aspin launched the Counterproliferation Initiative (CPI). As Aspin envisioned it, the CPI would complement traditional nonproliferation efforts in three ways: 1) by promoting consensus on the nature and scope of the...