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Arthur Waldron

A Man of Virtue

April 1, 1994

An American Missionary in China: John Leighton Stuart and Chinese-American Relations. By Yu-ming Shaw. (Cambridge, Mass.: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1992). Read the full article here....

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Bruce Bartlett

Gee-economics: The New Mercantilism

April 1, 1994

The Endangered American Dream How to Stop the United States from Becoming a Third-World Country and How to Win the Geo-economic Struggle for Industrial Supremacy. By Edward N. Luttwak. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993). Read the full article here....

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Charles C. Petersen

Moscow’s New Arms Bazaar

April 1, 1994

As the cold war began to wind down in the late 1980s, the Kremlin turned to the problem of steering the USSR’s economy away from its heavy emphasis on producing military hardware, with the aim of making consumer goods...

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Richard A. Bitzinger

Customize Defense Industry Restructuring

April 1, 1994

The U.S. defense industrial base faces a radical restructuring over the next several years. As a result of deficit reduction concerns, new domestic spending priorities, and the collapse of the Soviet bloc, many basic issues of national security planning...

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Henry Sokolski

Fighting Proliferation with Intelligence

April 1, 1994

Prior to Desert Storm, U.S. policy toward the proliferation of strategic weapons technology was to delay or prevent it through a policy of nonproliferation–export controls, customs interdictions, end-use checks, diplomatic demarches, nonproliferation pledges, regional arms control talks, and the...

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Philip H. Gordon

The Normalization of German Foreign Policy

April 1, 1994

German foreign policy has been made under highly exceptional circumstances since the end of World War II. Now, however, these circumstances have changed dramatically–Germany is a united country, the cold war is over, and a new set of policy...

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David M. Keithly

Shadows of Germany’s Authoritarian Past

April 1, 1994

Over fifteen thousand “acts of hatred” occurred in Germany in 1992, ranging from the desecration of Jewish graves with swastikas to fire bombings. While in 1993 this figure has decreased somewhat, the number of punishable crimes committed by right-wing...

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Robert A. Manning

Clinton and China: Beyond Human Rights

April 1, 1994

One of the major uncertainties facing the Asia-Pacific, indeed, the entire international system, is the future role of China, a country in the throes of generational political succession. How that role is defined-whether the People’s Republic of China (PRC)...

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Chu Shulong

The PRC Girds for Limited, High-Tech War

April 1, 1994

The end of the cold war has caused many states to reevaluate their security strategies, China not least among them. To understand the direction that Chinese security strategy is likely to take, it is necessary to first define the...

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