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Notes from the Balkans

Gordon N. Bardos | Jul 01, 2007
The United States should not balk at getting more deeply involved in the volatile Balkans: a well-crafted foreign policy could yield real results.

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.

Asia: Skepticism about Optimism

Barry Buzan
Gerald Segal
| Mar 01, 1995
Perhaps now that Pacific Asians have moved from Marxist to market economics, the logic of economic interdependence has made arms racing and power rivalry less sensible and less likely. On balance, it is probably better for Pacific Asian stability

Bosnia and the West: A Study in Failure

Noel Malcolm | Mar 01, 1995
The Western world's reaction to the destruction of Bosnia has been a triumph of diplomacy. A triumph, that is, of diplomacy over foreign policy.

Policing the Golan? Yes

Peter W. Rodman | Dec 01, 1994
In March 1975, the second Sinai negotiation between Israel and Egypt broke down.

On Reading My Stasi Files

Frederic L. Pryor | Dec 01, 1994
Two years ago I applied to the German government to see my file, in order to find out exactly what the Stasi thought I was doing. After a delay of a year and a half permission was finally given.
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Commentary

Bosnian Lessons

Gordon N. Bardos | Jul 16, 2010
What are the prospects for success in Iraq and Afghanistan? Our nation-building record in Bosnia and Kosovo isn’t encouraging.

Russia: Less like us than we thought

Robert VerBruggen | Jan 18, 2007
On the heels of another energy dispute with Europe, Moscow’s image has suffered. Tomas Ries provides a provocative analysis of Russia and its future relations with the West.

Books & Reviews

The Future of Equality

Francis Fukuyama | Dec 01, 1994
Thomas Sowell's Race and Culture provides ample documentation as to the importance of culture as a component of human capital, one that is critical in determining individual and national performance. In his usual feisty way, Sowell is eager to deb

Success Story; Review of David Marsh, The Most Powerful Bank: Inside Germany's Bundesbank

Alan Walters | Mar 01, 1994
Marsh is a gifted journalist and his command of events is most impressive, but he does not have the same respect for ideas as he does for the nitty-gritty of reportage.

A Dubious Partnership; Review of Fred C. Ikle and Sergei A. Karaganov, (co-chairs), Harmonizing the Evolution of U.S. and Russian Defense Policies

James Sherr | Mar 01, 1994
At one time conservatives like Castlereagh, nationalists like Bismarck and internationalists like Gladstone were all convinced that international order would be torn apart unless the interests of Great Powers were respected and kept in balance. Th
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