Pax Americana Books & Reviews

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.

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.

Globalism and the American Tide

Eric Jones | Sep 01, 1998
In this new book, Cairncross is a little breathless about the electronic communications that will conjure new worlds into existence. Nevertheless, because her text is well informed and her prose lucid, and because the technological developments ar

Rude Awakening

Martin Kramer | Jun 01, 1998
Fouad Ajami's new book argues that the Arabs have defeated themselves by a blind adherence to anachronistic ideologies of self-glorification, both nationalist and Islamist.

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.

Hayek's Slippery Slope

Neil McInnes | Mar 01, 1998
Friedrich Hayek's ideas,  particularly those set out in The Road to Serfdom, have been subject to extraordinary ups and downs in learned, as well as in popular and political, estimation.

Our Man in Nairobi

Michael Chege | Mar 01, 1998
Smith Hempstone's  narrative of his diplomatic "arm wrestling" with a recalcitrant Moi regime between 1989 and 1993 is lucid, witty and comprehensive.

Conrad's Nostromo and the Third World

Robert D. Kaplan | Mar 01, 1998
Joseph Conrad's Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, a 1904 novel about Westerners and indigenous inhabitants of an imaginary South American country, skillfully defines and dissects the problems of the Third World.

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