Commentary

Earlier this year, FPRI convened a conference to assess Asia’s shifting strategic landscape. Participants addressed long-term trends that have transformed the strategic environment in Asia, including the rise of China as an economic and military power, Japan’s protracted reconsideration...

Most analyses of terrorism and Islam following the September 11 attacks have stressed the thousand-year conflict with Christianity and the West.  Although Muslims define themselves and the Christian West in terms of religion, Western countries view relations among themselves...

The term “second nuclear age” is rarely used with precision or consistency. Sometimes it is intended to emphasize the “new” problems of nuclear proliferation. But many of these problems, such as deterrence, are not really new at all: they...

Gerald Posner’s recent book Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11 has been widely hailed as an insightful analysis of our inability to prevent the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Reading Mr. Posner’s book and the press reports about it,...

On August 14, 2003, at just after 4:00 p.m., the power went off for over 50 million U.S. and Canadian citizens. Their homes, businesses, trains, elevators, refrigerators, air conditioners— all those myriad electrically driven motors, appliances, and gadgets— went...

Before turning to observations about the Korean conflict on the fiftieth anniversary of its Armistice, I should like to make two observations. The first focuses briefly on how our contemporary policies with respect to North Korea should be conducted....

On June 29, the Council on Foreign Relations issued a new report stating that the US is dangerously underfunding emergency response capabilities that will be needed after a future terrorist attack. According to task force chair Senator Warren Rudman,...

On June 4, 2003, President George W. Bush personally renewed the latest American quest for Arab-Israeli peace. Presiding over a summit at the Jordanian port of Aqaba, with King Abdullah of Jordan, Prime Minister Sharon of Israel, and the...

In this edition of our series of bulletins on Teaching about Japan, we review T.R. Reid’s Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in The East Teaches Us about Living in the West. We also briefly describe a resource that...