Publications

The sudden and unexpected collapse of communism in East-Central Europe in the fall of 1989 alerted analysts to the possibility that the Soviet Union might succumb to forces of radical change. To forestall undesirable results of such a collapse,...

In 455, the Eastern Roman Emperor Marcian prohibited the export of all weapons, and materials for making weapons, to the barbarians. Plus ca change . . . The 1968 treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the 1987 Missile...

The passing of an old order does not of itself create a new order. The first-ever Summit meeting of the Security Council understood this, The Summit, which met on January 31, 1992, set in motion a vital process. It...

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In May 1992, Military Thought, the main theoretical journal of the Russian Armed Forces, published a draft of Russia’s new military doctrine. This draft was based on “defense documents adopted by the Russian president and Supreme Soviet, as well...

On March 22, 1992, the Albanian population went to the polls for its second free election since 1923. In many ways, however, this second election was the first true test of Albanian political sentiment. Though international monitoring bodies had...

The Asian Pacific rim grows daily in its economic and political importance to the United States. In 1990, the gross national products (GNPs) of East Asian and Western Pacific countries added up to more than $4.3 trillion; by the...

The US. decision to intervene in Somalia created nearly universal approbation among policy makers, analysts, and members of the media. American troops, acting under the authority of the U.N. Security Council, led the effort to ensure relief supplies were...

Analytical thinking concerning U.S.-European military ties in the post-cold war era suffers from several fundamental conceptual inadequacies. Everyone knows that the United States and Europe will continue to have military ties, but analysts of those ties typically conduct their...

For over forty years, the doctrine of containment has guided American thinking about national security and foreign policy. Today, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the global retreat of communism, U.S. policy makers are trying to move...