Publications

A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War. By Melvyn P. Leffler. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992). Read the full article here....

On February 25, 1991, an Iraqi ballistic missile hit an American barracks, killing 28 soldiers. Fortunately, that was an isolated incident. But imagine that Baghdad had been able to drag Desert Storm out an additional four months, hitting other...

Western efforts to promote Russian economic growth and technological modernization presuppose that such policies will help strengthen civilian reformers. But market-oriented reformers are not the only people-who see advanced technology as critical to their future. Executives in the military...

Today, the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia constitute a political keystone in the construction of a larger, integrated Europe. Clearly, their importance does not stem from their size, scale, economic might or military strength. They are important,...

During 1994, a number of trends and events converged to wrest the Caucasus and Transcaucasia out of obscurity and on to Europe’s security agenda.’ The regional ethnic conflicts, the war in Chechnya, and Russia’s broader bid to create new...

During the three-plus years since the collapse of the USSR and the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), “the competition to see which could become the most independent of all”’ has noticeably slowed....

The greatest question facing today’s huge Russian Federation is whether its eighty-nine components-republics, oblasts, and krais-will find enough common ground to remain one country, or will follow the Soviet Union’s course and fracture into several smaller countries. If the...

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Ten Years That Shook the World: The Gorbachev Era as Witnessed by His Chief of Stafl By Valery Boldin. (New York: Basic Books, 1994). Eternal Russia: Yeltsin, Gorbachev, and the Mirage of Democracy. By Jonathan Steele. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard...

Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. By Joan C. Tronto. (New York: Routledge, 1993). The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment. By Kate Millett. (New York: Norton, 1994). The Benefits...