Publications

Most current discussions of China’s relations with the rest of Asia tend to have a primarily eastward or southward focus-eastward to Taiwan, Japan, and the Korean Peninsula, or southward to the South China Sea, where China’s claims of sovereignty...

Professor Firuz Kazemzadeh of Yale University has cautioned against expecting the five Central Asian states–Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan–to develop into democracies in the near term: Democracy is a tender plant that has existed for only very short...

Meeting in Tashkent in January 1993, the presidents of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, and the chairman of Tajikistan’s — parliament concluded their discussion of common concerns with what they saw to be a momentous declaration. The collective name of...

Public opinion polls confirm that the American people agree with the experts: U.S. foreign policy is in trouble. Behind the floundering, the American people sense an inner uncertainty: the president and his team are not sure of the American...

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Now that the (justifiable) hype and ceremony surrounding the fiftieth anniversary of D-Day is done, it’s time for the plaudits and plaints to begin in remembrance of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first men on the moon. The “greatest...

A History of Warfare. By John Keegan. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994). Read the full article here....

Russia and the New States of Eurasia: the Politics of Upheaval. By Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Conflicts In and Around Russia: Nation-Building in Difficult Times. By Victor A. Kremenyuk. (Westport, Corm.: Greenwood...

The Fate of Marxism in Russia. By Alexander Yakovlev. Translated by Catherine A. Fitzpatrick. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1993). The Morphology of Russian Mentality: A Philosophical Inquiry into Conservatism and Pragmatism. By Vladimir Zviglyanich. (Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin...

RUSSIA 2010 and What It Means for the World. By Daniel Yergin and ‘Inane Gustafson. (New York: Random House, 1993). Adam Smith Goes to Moscow: A Dialogue on Radical Reform. By Walter Adams and James W. Brock. (Princeton, NJ.:...