Baltic states Articles

To Sing a Different Song

As the easternmost members of "the West", the Baltic states consider their options for the future.

Foreign Policy and Domestic Scandal

Nixon's extreme case illustrates the variety of potential problems that can arise in a scandal-weakened presidency. President Clinton seems to have dodged the bullet on the face of it; the November 3 election results demonstrated his remarkable po

Can Japan Come Back?

Japan can and will rise again. The real questions are when it will do so, and how much more damage it will sustain in the meantime.

Serious About Sanctions

Self-inflicted wounds.

Faking It and Making It

 There is no substitute for non-proliferation strategies with clear, country-specific objectives.

Tin Cup Diplomacy

We are again in the early stages of a new international system, but without a unifying challenge to raise foreign affairs resources much above 1 percent of the federal budget.

You Broker It, You Buy It

As American officials slowly come to terms with the impossibilities of implementing Dayton, it is clear--or it ought to be--that one lunge at a futile diplomatic endism is already one too many.

Blacks in the Military: The Equal Opportunity Imperative

The United States armed services--army, navy, marines, air force--are together the most racially integrated mass organization in the world.

Clausewitz Out, Computer In: Military Culture and Technological Hubris

The U.S. military ignores the teaching of Clausewitz at its own peril.

Is Asia's High Growth Era Over?

Since the mid-1980s, Western academics and policymakers have regardedthe "tiger" economies of East Asia as an interesting intellectuallaboratory for debating theories about the causes of economic growth.

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May 23, 2013