Commentary

When Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui told a German interviewer this month that relations between the Republic of China on Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China were a form of state-to-state relations, a diplomatic firestorm predictably erupted over his...

An Address by Walter A. McDougall to a History Institute for Secondary School Educators and Junior College Faculty, organized by the History Academy of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, May 1-2, 1999 Nothing in my experience sums up the...

A Republican-sponsored bill currently moving through the U.S. House of Representatives asks for U.S. military aid to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA, or Ushtria Clirimtare e Kosove — UCK, in Albanian). Despite the bill’s prominent supporters— including Senator Joseph...

What is NATO doing in Yugoslavia? First, it said it was bombing the Serbs to make them give up their own territory, as called for in the Rambouillet “accords.” Instead, it made all Serbs mad, and Slobodan Milosevic stronger...

President Clinton’s address to the nation explaining the decision to launch air attacks against Yugoslavia on March 24 revealed several flawed premises. These in turn must raise doubts about the wisdom of the bombing campaign. First, the situation on...

The death of Hussein bin Talal, the estimable King of Hashemite Jordan, is a deeply saddening event. He was a rare man in political life in that he was both very rich in deeds and even richer in decency....

On February 16, in Nairobi, Kenya, Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and supremo of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), was captured and promptly sent to Turkey to face trial. As the main engineer of a Maoist guerrilla organization, he stands...

After the arrest of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) “Chairman” Abdullah Ocalan on February 16 in Kenya, and his subsequent transfer to a Turkish jail to stand trial, widespread “Kurdish” demonstrations erupted throughout Europe, Canada, Australia, and the Middle...

The distress in the Asian economies may be bottoming out. The APEC meeting of 21 Pacific Rim nations has been held, and gone flat. Time now to look at economico-political matters in a way that configures phenomena before and...

On November 13, the Italian police arrested Abdullah Öcalan, founder and leader of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), at Rome’s airport. He had just arrived from Moscow with a false passport and, upon arrest, asked for political asylum. Coming...