Review Essay
Mar/Apr
2007
Margaret MacMillan's engaging narrative history shows how Nixon's trip to visit Mao helped end the Cold War. But neither leader anticipated how fast China would rise or how that rise would force the U.S.-Chinese relationship to evolve.
Capsule Review
May/Jun
2001
Lucian W. Pye
Review Essay
May/Jun
1997
Bruce Cumings' maverick thinking on Korea is now practically mainstream. This administration, which seems to have absorbed it, just might achieve what none of its predecessors could: the reunification of Korea.
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
1996
Donald Zagoria
Review Essay
Jan/Feb
1995
David Fromkin
Newly released records show that L.B.J., for all his political canniness and cunning, never managed U.S. foreign policy well-even excluding the Vietnam War.
Review Essay
Mar/Apr
1994
Ernest R. May
From John Quincy Adams' conception of America as "the champion and vindicator only of her own liberty" to Woodrow Wilson's idealism, the splendid new Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations shows the extent to which foreign policy debates in America have really concerned the definition of the nation.
