Winter 2005-2006

A New Forum for Peace

A proposal for transforming the six-party talks on North Korea into a security system for northeast Asia.

Essays

A Run for the Money

Why a few competitors for the UN would be good for its business.

Arming Europe

What does consolidation of Europe's defense industry hold for transatlantic cooperation?

Canada's Three Solitudes

Canada's split personalities complicate North American relations.

Getting to No

The limits of using international organizations to pursue U.S. foreign policy aims.

Her Majesty's Secret Service

7/7 tested how the British cope with Islamist terrorism. Were they found wanting?

Letters

Too often, the Beltway conventional wisdom emerges without careful scrutiny, before the hard questions have been asked.

Limiting the Damage

Nuclear hypocrisy for India's sake endangers U.S. security.

Mexico's Wasted Chance

How Vicente Fox squandered his revolution and what it means for the future.

On Leadership

U.S. global leadership depends on policymakers who can make the hard decisions. The Sino-American relationship will be the test.

Poverty and Globalization

Protecting consumer interests is the path to global peace and prosperity.

Prone to Violence

Democracy comes to bring not peace but the sword.

Taking Root

It's premature to proclaim the death of Latin American democracy--but the United States still needs to pay more attention to what happens there.

The Ambiguous Way Forward

Sharon got out of Gaza. Now what?

The Freedom Crusade, Revisited

Leslie H. Gelb, Daniel Pipes, Robert W. Merry and Joseph S. Nye offer their reactions to Robert W. Tucker and David Hendrickson on the Bush Doctrine.

Thinking Seriously

America's first energy secretary says we're running out of oil. It is a warning worth heeding.

UN-Divided

Gingrich and Hyde, UN boosters? What the new realignment means.

War, Trade and Utopia

Economic interdependence leads to peace, say the globalizers. Think again, and examine the U.S.-Chinese connection.

Why Anglos Lead

It's no accident of history that Anglo societies dominate the world order.

Books & Reviews

Another National Party No More?

Today's conservatives can learn from their Tory forbears.

Europe's New Narrative

Why the Cold War was so instrumental in Europe's success.

The Realist

Jihad, Unintended

To err is human. Not to learn from one's mistakes--and to jeopardize the nation's security in the process--is unforgivable.

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