NATO Books & Reviews

Meaning Well

Larry Wolff | Dec 01, 2001
Maximilian II managed to be both ahead of his time and behind it simultaneously. His life warns us against allowing ourselves to fall into a similar predicament.

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

...And the Road to Vienna

Noel Malcolm | Mar 01, 1999
In Blacklisted: A Journalist's Life in Central Europe, Paul Lendvai recounts his remarkable journey from the Nazi wartime death marches, to his days as a young communist apologist, and on to his later "crusade of information" against comm

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 Man Who Saved the Day--Sort of . .

Paul Wolfowitz | Sep 01, 1998
The Dayton Agreement that ended the war in Bosnia--or, more precisely, that produced a ceasefire which has so far lasted almost three years--is a flawed agreement, and its flaws are the product of a flawed policy.

Loose Cannon

Bruce Blair | Jun 01, 1998
Whereas the principal aim of American nuclear policy during the Cold War was to deter a strong and aggressive Soviet Union, the nuclear risks we face today stem from Russian weakness.

Right the First Time

Jeffrey Gedmin | Dec 01, 1996
Michael Mandelbaum, The Dawn of Peace in Europe (New York: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1996)"We must fulfill the promise of our time: an undivided Europe of free nations.

Road Hogs, Review of Joshua Muravchik's The Imperative of American Leadership

Adam Garfinkle | Jun 01, 1996
Two of the books reviewed here describe how Joshua Muravchik and the late Eric Nordlinger read the post-Soviet map and would have us travel upon it. Both recommend sharp turns at high speeds. The third contains the counsel of Peter Rodman, a man l

European Hamiltonians

Max Beloff | Jun 01, 1995
François Duchêne, Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence (New York: W.

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