The defeat of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan in World War II ushered in the Cold War era. For the four and a half decades between the defeat of fascism and the collapse of communism, global ...

Every powerful state relies on specialists whose task is to show that what the strong do is noble and just and, if the weak suffer, it is their fault. The present nuclear standoff with Iran summons ...

Reagan’s “strongest qualities,” George Shultz later wrote, included “an ability to break through the entrenched thinking of the moment to support his vision of a better future, a spontaneous, natural ...

MAKING THE UNIPOLAR MOMENT: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND THE RISE OF THE POST-COLD WAR ORDER By Hal Brands Cornell University Press, $29.95, 469 pages The classic symptom of bipolar disorder, also known as ...

This conclusion was the wrong lesson from history and from any reasonable and compassionate view of the desirable future arc of humanity. Rather than consolidate and expand U.S. power in the 21st ...

The American Century is fading. At least, that is the consensus among most analysts of international politics. Whether they attribute U.S. decline to domestic dysfunction or to the rise of China and ...

That we have entered a new and distinctive era in the history of international relations ought to be self-evident. We long ago left behind the era of Cold War bipolarity. Indeed, that world – with two ...

Much has been said about Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa separately. Still, remarkably little attention has been paid to the joint attempt to institutionalize the emerging powers' ties ...

Sometimes it takes a crisis to dispense with intellectual fads. The world’s response to Libya has made clear that currently fashionable arguments about the “rise of the Rest” and the world’s new ...

The manifest failures of the regime-change wars cost America huge sums in blood and treasure, but arguably even more important was the long-term symbolism conveyed: America is not all-powerful and ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt20d89k9 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt20d89k9.4 1979 was a bad year for U.S. foreign policy. At home, the ...