Fall 2002

Fate and Freedom in History

The historical revisionists of the Sixties have been the last to adapt to the end of the Cold War: case in point, Eric Foner.

Essays

Getting Realism: U.S. Asia (and China) Policy Reconceived

True realism about Asia transcends the Bush Administration's narrow focus on geopolitics and China.

Harbinger or Aberration?: A 9/11 Provocation

The attacks on Washington and New York were the first of their kind; they may also be the last. A case against rushing to conclusions.

Judging Nazism and Communism

Judging between the totalitarian evils of the 20th century need not wait for a more balanced historiography; alas, the long farewell is not quite over.

Our Other Korea Problem

The real threat to America's position in Korea doesn't emanate only from Pyongyang: How the "sunshine policy" could foreshadow the sunset of the U.S.-South Korean alliance.

Reforging the Atlantic Alliance

NATO is not dead or doomed, but the Allies should use the Prague Summit to assure its healthy future.

Surveying the Global Economy: A Conversation with Carla Hills and Martin Feldstein

There is no shortage of uncertainty in the global economy; two prominent economists sort through an increasingly tangled mess.

The Impossible Imperative? Conjuring Arab Democracy

Arab democracy is no oxymoron, but expecting it in time to remedy our 9/11 problem is unrealistic.

The New Containment

Forging a U.S.-Russian alliance to prevent nuclear terrorism should be America's top priority in the post-September 11 world; here is a blueprint for one.

The Rock Gets Rolled: A Letter from Gibraltar

Tony Blair and company seem hell-bent on caving in to Spain over Gibraltar. Unfortunately for Blair, Gibraltarians have other ideas.

U.S. Asia (and China) Policy Reconceived

True realism about Asia transcends the Bush Administration's narrow focus on geopolitics and China.

Waltzing to Armageddon?

A new edition of a well-known book on nuclear proliferation retains its rationalist fallacies.

Books & Reviews

Capital Ideas

A look at the poverty of some contending economic fundamentalisms.

Contact: The Politics of Migration

Impressive historical scholarship on migration cannot save Professor Hoerder from the miasma of current academic fashions.

Fighting Men

Eliot Cohen's look at the greatest democratic statesman of recent centuries affirms Clemenceau's quip that war is too important to be left to the generals--even American generals.

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