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A New Forum for Peace

Ian Bremmer
Choi Sung-hong
Yoriko Kawaguchi
| Dec 01, 2005
A proposal for transforming the six-party talks on North Korea into a security system for northeast Asia.

The Freedom Crusade, Revisited

Leslie H. Gelb
Daniel Pipes
Robert W. Merry
Joseph S. Nye
| Dec 01, 2005
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.

Comments & Responses

Pat Roberts
John J. Mearsheimer
Geoffrey Peter Hugh Loane
| Sep 01, 2005

The Business of Insurgency

Robert E. Looney | Sep 01, 2005
In Iraq, crime does pay. The insurgency is about more than just politics or ethnicity.

Assessing the China Threat

Robert S. Ross | Sep 01, 2005
Does China's military really threaten America's position in Asia? Not yet, but it still must be taken seriously.

China's Rise, Asia's Dilemma

Chung Min Lee | Sep 01, 2005
America's Asian allies don't always share our assessments of China. We shouldn't make them choose between Washington and Beijing.
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Commentary

Staying on the Job?

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Sep 23, 2008
America’s problems will not go away after the election. The winner in November should consider keeping Robert Gates on to help with the transition.

Reagan Plagiarized

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Apr 16, 2008
The road to the White House is paved with Reagan intentions. But very little Reagan action. Why the pundits and the presidential candidates are getting it wrong.

Whose Reagan?

Sean R. Singer | Jul 19, 2007
"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr.
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Blogs

Robert Gates and the Art of Nurturing a Reputation

Paul R. Pillar | May 27, 2011
The remarkable, carefully crafted and downright falsified public image of Secretary Gates.

Phony Defense Spending Cuts

Benjamin H. Friedman | Aug 17, 2010
Get it straight: Gates isn't proposing cuts on defense spending.

A Unified Security Budget

Christopher A. Preble | Aug 13, 2010
Aspirational Secretary Gates meet Operational Secretary Gates.

Books & Reviews

Books and Reviews: A Uniter, Not a Decider

Jacob Heilbrunn | Jul 01, 2007
Jacob Heilbrunn analyzes a spate of recent Reagan biographies, which demonstrate that neither George W. Bush nor any of the presidential candidates can lay claim to Reagan's unique legacy.

The Bureaucrat Spy, Review of Robert M. Gates' From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War

Russell Jack Smith | Jun 01, 1996
Robert M. Gates entered CIA toward the end of its best years, and the history he recounts of the ensuing twenty-odd years is strewn with untidy crises and a mix of CIA successes and disasters, brilliant insights, and woeful miscalls. Gates describ

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