William H. Luers
Comment
Sep/Oct
2000
The U.N.'s voluble critics fret that it threatens American sovereignty. In fact, a strengthened U.N. system will both serve America's interests and promote its ideals.
Essay
Spring
1990
Recounts the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia. Soviet reformism made it possible, but it was the profundity of Soviet ignorance about conditions there that allowed the overthrow to proceed with such speed and finality. Former US ambassador to Czechoslovakia.
Essay
Summer
1987
There is a need to re-evaluate US policies towards Eastern Europe in the light of Gorbachev's reforms. There is no prospect of fundamental change in relations between these countries and the USSR but, by improving its capacity to analyze trends there, expanding its contacts and developing its trade, the USA can discourage differentiation between the individual countries with the object of achieving a safer, less divided Europe.
