E-Notes

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...

Americans and many Europeans are rightly confused over the Clinton Administration’s actions in Kosovo, for those actions neither amount to any sort of “policy” nor suggest a sillingness on our part to learn from past blunders (Somalia and Haiti...

CNN’s heart-wrenching images and the New York Times‘ strident editorials on the suffering of allegedly innocent Albanian civilians in Kosovo at the hands of the ruthless Serbs have the Clinton Administration on the same kind of meaningless rhetorical and...

To students of history and international politics, the phrase “preparing to fight the last war” has a familiar ring. It refers to a particularly dangerous form of mental lag, to applying lessons learned from an old failure to conditions...

The Centennial of the First Zionist Congress at Basel reminds us of just how much one talented man could do in the late Victorian world. This era has come down to us as a time of rigid social hierarchy...