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The Taiwan Question
When Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui told a German interviewer this month that relations between the Republic of China on Taiwan ...
Read more »Don’t Arm the KLA
A Republican-sponsored bill currently moving through the U.S. House of Representatives asks for U.S. military aid to the Kosovo Liberation ...
Read more »NATO and Kosovo: After the ‘Victory,’ What?
What is NATO doing in Yugoslavia? First, it said it was bombing the Serbs to make them give up their ...
Read more »Bombs for Peace? Misreading Kosovo
President Clinton’s address to the nation explaining the decision to launch air attacks against Yugoslavia on March 24 revealed several ...
Read more »After King Hussein
The death of Hussein bin Talal, the estimable King of Hashemite Jordan, is a deeply saddening event. He was a ...
Read more »The Capture of Abdullah Ocalan and the Future of Counter-Terrorism
On February 16, in Nairobi, Kenya, Abdullah Ocalan, the founder and supremo of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), was captured ...
Read more »The PKK Strategy in Europe to Place Turkey on Trial
After the arrest of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) “Chairman” Abdullah Ocalan on February 16 in Kenya, and his subsequent ...
Read more »The Asian Miracle, The Asian Contagion & the U.S.A.
The distress in the Asian economies may be bottoming out. The APEC meeting of 21 Pacific Rim nations has been ...
Read more »Who is Abdullah Ocalan?
On November 13, the Italian police arrested Abdullah Öcalan, founder and leader of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK), at Rome’s ...
Read more »Dangerous Incoherence in Kosovo
Americans and many Europeans are rightly confused over the Clinton Administration’s actions in Kosovo, for those actions neither amount to ...
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