Baltic states Articles

Bridging Centuries: Fin de Siecle All Over Again

Paul Wolfowitz | Mar 01, 1997
While one might wish that the voters would show more interest in such foreign policy issues as Bosnia, Iraq, or Korea, and object to the tendency to reduce all foreign policy to trade policy, it has to be conceded that there is a certain short-ran

Africa's Murderous Professors

Michael Chege | Dec 01, 1996
In his much-praised History of the Jews, Paul Johnson reminds us that through the ages European "anti-Semitism was fueled not just by vulgar rumor but by the deliberate propaganda of intellectuals."

Morality and High Technology

Andrew J. Bacevich | Sep 01, 1996
Ours is an age in which any untoward development becomes a crisis, the slightest departure from the ordinary is immediately tagged as historic, and the mere glimmer of novelty is heralded as revolutionary.

Strategy Creep in the Balkans: Up To Our Knees and Advancing

Ted Galen Carpenter
Amos Perlmutter
| Jun 01, 1996
Bosnia and the rest of the Balkans are Europe's hangnail, not its heart. Developments there may be disgusting and tragic, but they have meager potential to disrupt even the European, much less the global, strategic environment.

The Man Who Changed the Game Plan

Richard V. Allen | Jun 01, 1996
I am going to talk about how Ronald Reagan and his team--a team widely characterized at the time, both here and abroad, as a group of inexperienced and impractical right-wing ideologues and fanatics--prevailed in the Cold War.

Less is More: Minimal Realism in East Asia

Christopher Layne | Mar 01, 1996
Historically, in both practical and theoretical debates about American foreign policy, the great divide has been between proponents of liberal internationalism--sometimes called Wilsonianism--and realism.

The Shiprider Solution: Policing the Caribbean

Elliott Abrams | Mar 01, 1996
Thr reality is that the Caribbean micro-states have a most uncertain future, and may prove to be politically and economically unviable. Given their location, it is a strong American interest to maintain stability.

Russian Aid (II)

David J. Kramer | Mar 01, 1995
U.S. aid to Russia should promote U.S. foreign policy interests and help the Russians help themselves.

NATO's Expansion: Why the Critics Are Wrong

William E. Odom | Mar 01, 1995
An expansion of NATO can only occur under strong U.S. leadership.

A State of Mind

Owen Harries | Dec 01, 1994
It is now possible to discuss the domestic political scene very adequately with no, or only the most cursory, reference to foreign policy.

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