Publications

The most important bilateral relationship in the world “bar none” is how Ambassador Mike Mansfield frequently referred to U.S.-Japan ties during his tenure as U.S. ambassador in Tokyo. Although some of my former Pentagon colleagues demurred that during the...

As the years of Deng Xiaoping’s paramountcy draw to a close, the most fundamental issues facing the People’s Republic of China today-official pronouncements notwithstanding-are in essence the same that confronted the USSR a decade ago when Konstantin Chemenko died:...

With the implosion of the Soviet Union, a second Pax Americana should have dawned across the Pacific with a brilliance unrivaled since the closing days of World War II. America’s economic, military, and ideological rival for the hearts and...

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Apartheid’s Genesis 1935-1962. Edited by Philip Bonner, Peter Delius, Deborah Posel. (Braamfontein: Ravan Press, and Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1993). Policing South Africa: The South African Police and the Transition from Apartheid. By Gavin Cawthra. (Atlantic Highways, New Jersey:...

On Looking into the abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society. By Gertrude Himmelfarb. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994). Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science. By Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt. (Baltimore, Md.:...

Diplomacy. By Henry Kissinger. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994). Read the full article here....

Like most military units, the U.N. Protection Forces (UNPROFOR) in Bosnia operate under explicit Rules of Engagement (ROE), or written orders defining when the troops can use force. The ROE printed here were issued by General Jean Cot, then...

The debate about the latest “new world order”-the third in this century alone–turns primarily on claims about the obsolescence of war and war-like behavior following the end of the cold war. Three claims in particular dominate recent discussions of...

The fall 1993 crisis in Moscow resulted in more than the forceful disbandment of the old Russian parliament. It marked Moscow’s rejection of the principle of integration with the West, ending one key stage in the debate within Boris...