Publications

Read the full article here....

The full list of book reviews can be accessed here....

Peru’s President Alberto Fujimori has achieved remarkable success in the battle against the termrist guerrilla organization Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso), and General Alberto Arciniega Huby was once part of that success story. In fact, he had the best counterinsurgency record of...

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the danger of the use of nuclear weapons is greater now than at any time since Hiroshima. The increased risks are due mainly to political instabilities throughout the world fueled by ethnic conflicts, militant...

The peace agreement signed by the government of El Salvador and the Democratic Revolutionary Front (Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front-FMLN) on January 16, 1992, resulted from a number of factors that converged during 1990-91. In the years between the...

To acquire a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery missiles, a country does not need to take home the gold medal in the military-technology Olympics. It can strive merely for the bronze medal and obtain an...

Using economic sanctions levied against Serbia, governments in the West are promoting the replacement of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic by some opposition figure. Such a change in personalities, they believe, would help to bring an end to the war in...

Russia is in the midst of a very difficult transition from an authoritarian to a democratic system of government. A critical factor in the ultimate success of this transition is whether the military, as an institution, can adjust to...

Abstract Although Orbis’s mission is to publish articles dedicated to furthering the American national interest, we believe that the following article by Konstantin Sorokin—which offers a Russian mew on the nuclear arsenals of former Soviet states—is sufficiently important to...

Prominent among the many ethnic minority problems that may threaten the stability of the post-Soviet international system are those involving the twenty-five million ethnic Russians residing beyond the borders of the Russian Federation in the newly independent republics. The...