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Josef Joffe

Security Dec 12, 2016 Snapshot

The Folly of Abandoning Europe

Bidding adieu to its European commitments would be a major mistake for the United States and a gift to Russia and China.

Josef Joffe

U.S. troops during a military exercise in Rukla, Lithuania, May 2014.

Arms Control & Disarmament July/August 2011 Response

Can Disarmament Work?

Is reducing the world's nuclear arsenals to zero possible, or even desirable? Bruce Blair, Matt Brown, and Richard Burt argue that it is; Josef Joffe and James Davis...

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Arms Control Disarmament - Foreign Affairs

Arms Control & Disarmament January/February 2011 Comment

Less Than Zero

All previous attempts at total nuclear disarmament have failed, as strategic logic and state interest have prevailed over wishful thinking. A similar fate awaits...

Josef Joffe and James W. Davis

Arms Control Disarmament - Foreign Affairs

Globalization September/October 2009 Essay

The Default Power

Since the United States first became a global superpower, it has been fashionable to speak of its decline. But in today's world, the United States' economic and...

Josef Joffe

United States - Foreign Affairs

Global Institutions November/December 1999 Review Essay

Rethinking the Nation-State: The Many Meanings of Sovereignty

Stephen D. Krasner takes a hard look at the old idea that states are unfettered actors. Sovereignty has never been absolute, but it is still a useful lens for viewing...

Josef Joffe

Defense Policy January/February 1998 Review Essay

The Secret of Genscher's Staying Power: Memoirs of a 'Slippery Man'

Foreign minister in some of the most pivotal years of the Cold War, Hans-Dietrich Genscher became a master of equivocation. Unfortunately, as an author, he still is.

Josef Joffe

U.S. Foreign Policy September/October 1997 Essay

How America Does It

Somehow the United States has remained unchallenged despite victory. Defying the laws of realpolitik, no one is ganging up on the hegemon. Through two world wars, the...

Josef Joffe

United States - Foreign Affairs

Civil Society March/April 1997 Response

Mr. Heilbrunn's Planet: On Which the Germans Are Back

Suspicions that Germany, actually staid and boring, is secretly polishing ye olde jackboots underlies Jacob Heilbrunn's woefully out-of-date reportage on the German...

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Germany - Foreign Affairs

Political Development January/February 1996 Review Essay

Putting Germany Back Together: The Fabulous Bush and Baker Boys

German reunification ranks high on George Bush's impressive list of foreign policy achievements. Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice's engaging account reveals how...

Josef Joffe

War & Military Strategy America and the World 1992 Essay

The New Europe: Yesterday's Ghosts

Liberated from the Cold War, European nationalism ran rampant in 1992. The absence of a compelling strategic interest in war-torn Yugoslavia precluded foreign...

Josef Joffe

Europe - Foreign Affairs

Political Development America and the World 1982 Essay

Europe and America: The Politics of Resentment (Cont'd)

Transatlantic disaffections, sturdy perennials since the turn of the decade, continued to sprout luxuriantly throughout 1982. They were nourished by two as yet...

Josef Joffe

United States - Foreign Affairs

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