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The Costs of George H. W. Bush’s Foreign Policy Genius

As Bush and Scowcroft’s system for making foreign policy, known as the "interagency", turns 30 years old next month, it is worth considering whether it is still the right fit for a world and a government that have changed dramatically.

John Gans

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GHW Bush Administration Dec 7, 2018 Response

The Costs of George H. W. Bush’s Foreign Policy Genius

As Bush and Scowcroft’s system for making foreign policy, known as the "interagency", turns 30 years old next month, it is worth considering whether it is still the...

John Gans

GHW Bush Administration Dec 5, 2018 Snapshot

Mourning a President, and Much Else Besides

George H. W. Bush and the Lost Art of Transatlantic Statecraft

Mary Elise Sarotte

GHW Bush Administration Dec 4, 2018 Snapshot

The Foreign Policy Genius of George H. W. Bush

George H. W. Bush entered the presidency better prepared to lead the United States’ relations with the world than any U.S. president before or since.

Ivo H. Daalder and I. M. Destler

President George H.W. Bush meets with his military advisors at the Pentagon to duscuss the Gulf crisis August 15, 1990.

GHW Bush Administration Oct 29, 2014 Snapshot

Put It in Writing

Russian leaders often claim the United States reneged on a promise not to expand NATO after the Cold War. They aren't lying: although Washington never put a pledge in...

Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson

U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow, July 1991.

Economics Apr 9, 2013 Snapshot

How Thatcher Saved Britain -- And Lost Europe

Margaret Thatcher re-established the United Kingdom as a major force on the international scene. But she failed to see that the best hope for Europe's future was...

Brendan Simms

Arms Control & Disarmament July/August 2012 Essay

Deterrence Lessons From Iraq

Debates about the possibility of containing a nuclear Iran often hinge on judgments of whether the regime there is rational. But as a wealth of recently released Iraqi...

Amatzia Baram

Foreign Policy September/October 2010 Essay

Beyond Moderates and Militants

With protests raging across the Middle East, how should Washington respond? In an essay from the September/October issue, Robert Malley and Peter Harling...

Robert Malley and Peter Harling

Political Development November/December 2009 Review Essay

The Suicide of the East?

Twenty years after the revolutions of 1989 brought down communism in Eastern Europe, a fresh crop of books attempts to unpack this epic story. The story these books...

Philip D. Zelikow

GW Bush Administration July/August 2009 Letter

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The Necessary and the Chosen

Richard N. Haass

U.S. Foreign Policy Winter 1988/89 Essay

The Next Four Years: Introduction

The election campaign failed to shed much light on the probable course of American foreign policy over the next four years. Domestic issues and personalities dominated...

FA editors

Security Spring 1988 Essay

Introduction

This is the season of political debate. While a few foreign policy differences have opened between the two parties—for example, on deployment of a strategic defensive...

FA editors

Sanctions July/August 2004 Essay

Containing Iraq: Sanctions Worked

The failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has prompted much handwringing over the problems with prewar intelligence. Too little attention has been paid,...

George A. Lopez and David Cortright

Political Development September/October 2003 Review Essay

The Lingering Legacy of Tiananmen

A new book sees the troubled U.S.-China relationship of the 1990s growing as much out of domestic politics on both sides as out of overarching strategic considerations.

Robert M. Hathaway

War & Military Strategy November/December 2001 Review Essay

America Adrift: Writing the History of the Post Cold Wars

David Halberstam's latest book describes the impossible job of the American president in the late 1990s: trying to hold together the international order while...

Michael Hirsh

Economics January/February 1999 Comment

Squandering Triumph: The West Botched the Post-Cold War World

The West botched the post-Cold War era by overestimating the power of markets, misreading ethnic conflicts, and relying on outmoded military doctrines.

Charles William Maynes

U.S. Foreign Policy November/December 1998 Review Essay

The Prudence Thing: George Bush's Class Act

George Bush and Brent Scowcroft's Oval Office memoir shows how Bush's genius for friendship and gentlemanly instincts helped usher out the Cold War.

Michael Howard

Human Rights March/April 1998 Comment

Sidelined on Human Rights: America Bows Out

By blocking international treaties banning land mines and child soldiers, the United States has become an obstacle to the advancement of human rights law.

Kenneth Roth

U.S. Foreign Policy November/December 1997 Review Essay

Japan's Full Story: Inside and Outside of the Cabinet

Walter LaFeber and Michael Schaller have both written stimulating diplomatic histories of Japan. Unfortunately, Japan's history is less one of outstanding statesmen...

Nicholas D. Kristof

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

Race & Ethnicity March/April 1995 Comment

The Last Ambassador: A Memoir of the Collapse of Yugoslavia

In this special Comments section, the U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia from 1989 to 1992 has written a memoir drawn from his personal diaries that provides a gripping...

Warren Zimmermann

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