Commentary

Osama bin Laden, as best anyone can tell, wants Muslims to unite in a grand alliance, with him at its helm. The concept is not new. The British confronted the Mahdi in the Sudan in the 1890s, and this...

The Organization of African Unity (OAU), founded in 1963 in Addis Ababa, is attempting a transformation of sorts. Last week in Lusaka, Zambia, it changed its name to the African Union (AU) in imitation of the European Union, mostly...

China’s simmering discontent with its place in the world—and, more specifically, its relationship with the West and, more specifically still, with the United States — has bubbled to the surface in several recent incidents. Forced to land on Hainan...

The first several months of the George W. Bush administration have underscored a simple but vexing truth about the United States’ Taiwan policy: the basic goal is deceptively easy to state but crafting the means for achieving it is...

Relations with China and questions of policy concerning national missile defense and North Korea have dominated U.S. foreign policy news in the first few months of the Bush Administration. Pundits qua amateur contemporary historians are already referring routinely to...

Relations with China and questions of policy concerning national missile defense and North Korea have dominated U.S. foreign policy news in the first few months of the Bush Administration. Pundits qua amateur contemporary historians are already referring routinely to...

The matter of learning lessons from history has been a prodigious source of aphorism and free advice. George Santayana famously warned that those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it. Aldous Huxley quipped...

The Bush Administration’s urge to national missile defense has sparked yet another visitation of debate over the 1972 ABM Treaty. This is depressing news, for ABM Treaty debate reminds one of Brigadoon. Like the fabled village of a rancidly...

The aftermath of the November 7 U.S. presidential election has been a boon to prominent lawyers with strong partisan ties and a dream come true for law professors with a penchant for the outlandish hypothetical. Within the week and...

In August 1919, the British government decided that the armed services were to make their plans for the future on the assumption that there would be no major war or need for any expeditionary force for ten years. This...