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Tue. December 18, 2018

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Virtual Defense

The United States may be an uncontested military superpower, but it remains defenseless against a new mode of attack: information warfare. By James Adams. (Foreign Affairs, 5/1/2001, $) Read More...

War Logs On: Girding America for Computer Combat

In Kosovo, America stumbled into the age of computer warfare. Now Washington must think hard about how to attack its foes' electronic networks and defend its own. By Bruce D. Berkowitz. (Foreign Affa... Read More...

When Soldiers Become Cops

Rather than avoid peacekeeping entirely, the U.S. government ends up sending in elite military units that get bogged down for years. Developing a constabulary force would be a better answer. By Rachel... Read More...

Dire Strait: The Risks On Taiwan

Discusses Taiwan's presidential race and the ramifications for the U.S. and Chinese relations. By Kenneth Lieberthal. (Washington Post, 1/8/2003) Read More...

Differentiated Containment

The Clinton administration should employ a more nuanced approach to the Persian Gulf, keeping the straitjacket on Saddam while seeking improved relations with Iran. By Zbigniew Brzezinski, Brent Scowc... Read More...

Diplomacy Without Diplomats?

America could have had a foreign service second to none. But Washington could not accept any such rigorously selective and nonpolitical corps. And with the diffusion of authority around the globe, man... Read More...

Does the CIA Still Have a Role?

Argues that the benefits gained by fielding a worldwide team of secret agents are not worth the exorbitant cost. The CIA should stick to its strengths: analysis for policymakers and high-tech surveil... Read More...

Getting U.S.-Peru Relations Back on the Right Track

As Peru strives to rebuild its political, civil, and economic institutions in a troubled international environment, U.S. diplomacy requires a more comprehensive approach that counter-narcotics alone. ... Read More...

Limited Engagement

America's China policy has drifted for more than a decade, bereft of both goals and domestic support. The United States must move beyond the mantra of engagement. By Bates Gill. (Foreign Affairs, 7/1/... Read More...

New Friends, New Fears in Central Asia

To wage its war in Afghanistan, the Bush administration needed Uzbekistan's help -- and promised a lot to get it. But Washington must not let this short-term marriage of convenience give Uzbekistan lo... Read More...

Persian Gulf Myths

Washington must hedge against inevitable political change in the region by spreading the burden and the say, reversing arms proliferation, and encouraging the Gulf states to come up with some security... Read More...

Puerto Rico's Decolonization

Discusses possibility of Puerto Rican statehood. (Foreign Affairs, 11/1/1997, $) Read More...

Redefining the National Interest

NATO's poorly planned adventure in Kosovo has brought a critical question to the fore: just how should Americans define their national interest in the information age? By Joseph S. Nye, Jr.(Foreign Af... Read More...

Redesigning Foreign Aid

Washington must revamp its approach to aid and address new, urgent priorities: shoring up peacekeeping efforts in such places as the Middle East and the Balkans; easing the transition to globalization... Read More...

Restructure Aid to Colombia

For U.S. assistance to be truly effective, it must be consistent, comprehensive enough to counter attendant terrorism, and channeled to enable Colombian institutions to bear more of the burden. By Ste... Read More...

Sanctioning Madness

Sanctions are a huge slice of the U.S. foreign policy pie -- even cities employ them. Policymakers need to think harder before they rush to push the sanctions button. By Richard N. Haass. (Foreign A... Read More...

Sudan's Perfect War

Only the United States has the power and prestige to help end the violence in Sudan and push for a peace that would be in everyone's interests. By Randolph Martin. (Foreign Affairs, 3/1/2002, $) Read More...

Suicide From Fear of Death?

President Bush's case for war on Iraq overlooks a very real danger: if pushed to the wall, Saddam Hussein may resort to using weapons of mass destruction against the United States. By Richard K. Bett... Read More...

The (Ab)normalization of U.S.-Chinese Relations

Essay on history of U.S. - Chinese Relations. By Patrick Tyler. (Foreign Affairs, 11/1/1999, $) Read More...

The Real Roots of Arab Anti-Americanism

Promoting anti-Americanism is the best way Muslim leaders have found to distract their publics from the real problem: internal mismanagement. New U.S. policies or a PR campaign will not change matters... Read More...

With A Friend Like Fox

Vincente Fox has abandoned Mexico's tradition of nonintervention, leading his country to deeper involvement throughout the western hemisphere. Mexico's new diplomacy has great potential to improve the... Read More...

Strengthening the U.S.-Philippine Alliance for Fighting Terrorism

Washington should take advantage of congruent security interests, along with popular support for the U.S. military presence in the Philippines, to rebuild the U.S.-Philippine alliance to meet the need... Read More...

Overcoming the Stalemate on the Korean Peninsula

The Bush Adminstration policy seeks to create fundamental change in the way the North Koreans interact with the world. President Bush's message: they must learn to play by the rules of the internatio... Read More...

Responding to the Indo-Pakistani Crisis

Discusses the crises and concludes that a bilateral agreement reached freely by India and Pakistan is the best means to allow the people of Kashmir to live a future in peace. By James Phillips, Jack S... Read More...

U.S. and Europe: Terrorism and the Middle East

Panel discussion with Hon. Ruprecht Polenz, a member of the conservative CDU party in the German Bundestag and member of the Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Dr. Phillip Gordon, Director o... Read More...

Homeland Defense: Issues and Challenges

Notes from a Nixon Center event with Warren B. Rudman (Nixon Center, 6/19/2002) Read More...

The New National Security Strategy: Focus on Failed States

Focuses on the Bush Administration's need to address failed states in its National Security Strategy(NSS). By Susan E. Rice. (Brookings Institute, 2/1/2003) Read More...

U.S.-Russian Relations Threatened By Iraq Arms Sales

It is in the interest of both Russia and the US to stop acrimony over Iraq and focus on the future. To achieve this, the Putin Administration must “clean house” and take the culprits who sold banned w... Read More...

Star Wars Strikes Back

America is pouring billions of dollars into research and development, ignoring the fundamental flaws that missile defense has yet to overcome. By Michael O'Hanlon. (Foreign Affairs, 11/1/1999, $) Read More...

The Missile Defense Debate

The Bush administration claims national missile defense can protect the United States from long-range missiles fired by rogue states. But that threat is trivial, and Washington's unilateralist approac... Read More...

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