Publications

Postwar Japan as History. Edited by Andrew Gordon. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993). Japan: Beyond the End of History. By David Williams. (London: Routledge, 1994). What Is Japan? Contradictions and Transformations. By Taichi Sakaiya. (New York: Kodansha International,...

Ideas, Interests, and American Trade Policy. By Judith Goldstein. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993). Who Adjusts? Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy During the Interwar Years. By Beth Simmons. (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1994). Read the full article...

Western observers tend to assume that, for the foreseeable future, only the United States will have the capability to revolutionize military technology and doctrine. And why not, given the evidence of the Gulf war and the collapse of the...

Abstract Although Orbis’s mission is to publish articles dedicated to advancing the American national interest, the editors believe the following article, which provides an Indian perspective on US. policy, merits an exception. Provocatively, the author contends that U.S.-inspired export...

Is the Southern Cone of Latin America on the verge of a nuclear arms race, or is this an obsolete question? Recent agreements suggest that the Brazilian and Argentine governments are substituting economic and security cooperation for their traditional...

Since 1970, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty (NPT) has been the primary mechanism for efforts to slow or prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. This agreement has been the cornerstone of a global non-proliferation regime that includes the verification mechanisms...

Our best journals and worst statesmen sound the same theme. A new era has dawned, and the lessons of past decades, not to mention centuries, no longer pertain. America’s very national interests, and the means to advance them, must...

Even his most ardent supporters would probably hesitate before attempting to advertise President Bill Clinton’s foreign policy achievements, His first eighteen months in o&e have hardly been auspicious. His secretary of state is publicly humiliated on a visit to...

A foreign diplomat was browsing in a Beijing bookshop last fall when his eyes fell on a Chinese-language book with an arresting title: Can China’s Armed Forces Win the Next War? That is not the sort of question that’s...

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