Government of Russia Books & Reviews

The Beginning of Economic Wisdom

Michael Novak | Mar 01, 2003
Two primers on economics reveal a lingering philosophical divide in the intellectual imagination of our time.

Wasserstein's Jerusalem

Yossi Klein Halevi | Jun 01, 2002
Discounting the Jewish claim to Jerusalem in the name of evenhandedness is no way to achieve a just settlement.

Money and Power: Pondering Economic Growth and Decline

Richard Rosecrance | Jun 01, 2002
A trio of books proposes intriguing reasons for economic growth--national pride, surplus labor and investment security--but none parses the novelty of the virtual state.

The Guns of 17th Street

Jonathan Clarke | Mar 01, 2001
A dissection of the few pluses and many minuses of the crusading approach to American foreign policy.

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

Acheson, Simply Put

Robert F. Ellsworth | Dec 01, 1998
Chace's Acheson is encompassing, graceful and prodigiously researched and annotated.

Crazy over Cuba

Andrew J. Bacevich | Dec 01, 1998
As this important volume demonstrates,  the overriding requirement of the era was not guts but wisdom. On that score, the Kennedys and their lieutenants flunked.

Uncomfortable, but Invaluable

Peter Coleman | Dec 01, 1998
Urban's is not a happy memoir. The subtitle, My War Within the Cold War, sums up his theme. The new policy involved years of often bitter struggle with both grotesque reactionaries and Western appeasers.

The Other France

H.J. Kaplan | Dec 01, 1998
 Modernizing the Provincial City does not tell us anything we did not already know about how the French became and are becoming what they have been and are.

The Cult of Secrecy

Allen Weinstein | Dec 01, 1998
Senator Moynihan has expanded his appendix to the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy report into an elegant, quotable, scholarly, and timely book.

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