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One of the most important legacies of World War II was knowledge of how to mobilize the nation to win wars. The United States became the arsenal of democracy, with industry, labor, capital, and government working together to manufacture...
Read more »Several prominent features of the post-cold war international system are emerging to cast a pall over the optimistic pronouncements of the early 1990s about a manageable New World Order. Two of these features have attracted significant public attention in...
Read more »Water and Peace: Water Resources ad the Arab-Israeli Peace Process. By Elisha Rally with Gideon Fishelson. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1993). Naharot shel Esh: Ha-Maavaq al Mayim h’Mizrah ha-Tikhon (Rivers of Fire: The Struggle Over Water in the Middle East)....
Read more »The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy. By the World Bank. (New York: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 1993). Miracle or Design? Lessons from the East Asian Experience. By Albert Fishlow, et al. (Washington, D.C.: Overseas...
Read more »The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991. By Martin Malia. (New York: The Free Press, 1994). Read the full article here....
Read more »Polite Protesters: The American Peace Movement of the 1980s. By John Lofland. (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1993). Organizing for Peace: Neutrality, the Test Ban, and the Freeze. By Robert Kleidman. (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1993). Peace Works:...
Read more »Beyond Peace. By Richard M. Nixon. (New York: Random House, 1994). Time and Chance: Gerald Ford’s Appointment with History. By James Cannon. (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1994). Eisenhower’s War of Words: Rhetoric and Leadership. Edited by Martin J....
Read more »In the Fall 1994 issue of Orbis, Bruce D. Berkowitz airs several criticisms of the rules of engagement (ROEs) employed by the United Nations Protection Force UNPROFOR) in the former Yugoslavia. ROEs are indeed a vital tool for assuring...
Read more »Australia’s prime minister Paul Keating has rightly pointed out that “the United States faces a fundamental decision on where and how it wishes to place itself in the emerging economic alignments of the Pacific.” Indeed, the American agenda in East...
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