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Atlanticism

The Three Faces of NATO

Richard K. Betts | Apr 10, 2009
One must wonder why, with the end of the cold war, NATO did not dissolve. How do we explain the organization's transformation and vitality at the end of the twentieth century?

Transatlantic Troubles

Andrew A. Michta | Nov 10, 2006
America need not restore the bygone, comprehensive relationship with Europe to achieve its purposes.

Reaganism v. Neo-Reaganism

Richard Lowry | Mar 01, 2005
Reagan knew the difference between a conservative foreign policy and Wilsonian interventionism. Do his soi-disant heirs know it too?

American Maximalism

Stephen Sestanovich | Mar 01, 2005
President Bush's reputation as a radical is exaggerated.  He is following in the footsteps of bold predecessors.  So why is he making such a mess of it?

Hegemonic Quicksand

Zbigniew Brzezinski | Dec 01, 2003
Global domination is a self-defeating goal. Global leadership is not.

Reforging the Atlantic Alliance

Philip H. Gordon | Sep 01, 2002
NATO is not dead or doomed, but the Allies should use the Prague Summit to assure its healthy future.
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Commentary

Terror in the Balkans

Gordon N. Bardos | Sep 07, 2010
Forget whatever flavor of the month is making headlines in the Balkans. Guess where the perpetrators of nearly every terrorist plot of the last twenty years got their start?

Bosnian Lessons

Gordon N. Bardos | Jul 16, 2010
What are the prospects for success in Iraq and Afghanistan? Our nation-building record in Bosnia and Kosovo isn’t encouraging.

Departing Europe

Doug Bandow | Jul 13, 2010
Rather than whining about the Continent’s military spending, the United States should allow the Europeans to bear the consequences of their actions. That means leaving NATO to the Europeans.
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Books & Reviews

Pax Californica

Andrew J. Bacevich | Apr 20, 2010
America has at times oriented itself to the East, at others to the West. But what we have always had is a sense of our manifest destiny. And now the ideals of California—nihilism with a suntan—seem to be our primary ideological export.

Banal and Dubious

Andrew J. Bacevich | Sep 01, 2000
Pedestrian books can sometimes serve salutary purposes.

How the West Was Spun

John O'Sullivan | Mar 01, 1999
Christopher Coker's Twilight of the West looks at present geopolitical trends and predicts the West's dissolution; David Gress, in From Plato to Nato, sees them as yet another episode in the long struggle between the mainstream W
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