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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 integration.

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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

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

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...

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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...

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Institutions Fall 1987 Essay

The Summer of 1987

The summer of 1987 was unusually hot. To the Reagan White House it must have also seemed unusually long, for the Administration's basic competence in the conduct of...

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War & Military Strategy Winter 1981/2 Essay

Nuclear Weapons in the 1980s: MAD VS. NUTS: The Mutual Hostage Relationship of the Superpowers

INTRODUCTION: Since World War II there has been a continuing debate on military doctrine concerning the actual utility of nuclear weapons in war. This debate,...

Spurgeon M. Keeny Jr. and Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky

Economics Summer 1981 Essay

Restructuring the Woprld Economy: Round II

INTRODUCTION: Since 1973, attempts to adjust the structure of the world economy to rapidly rising costs of energy have dominated all other economic issues. Successive...

Hollis B. Chenery

War & Military Strategy May/June 2000 Letter

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Frances Fitzgerald

War & Military Strategy March/April 2000 Review Essay

The Empire Strikes Out: Why Star Wars Did Not End the Cold War

Frances FitzGerald's new book demolishes the myth that Ronald Reagan's beloved Star Wars program was the straw that broke the Soviet camel's back.

David Greenberg

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

Reagan Administration September/October 1995 Review Essay

The Apparatchik's Lament

The memoirs of Moscow's ambassador to the United States from Kennedy to Reagan reveal little about U.S. presidents but much about the ossified and ill-informed Soviet...

Steven Merritt Miner

Economics January/February 1995 Review Essay

Misinterpreting the Cold War: The Hardliners Were Right

Despite its seemingly thorough approach, Raymond Garthoff's apologetic treatment of Soviet Cold War policies fails to explain why communism collapsed.

Richard Pipes

U.S. Foreign Policy September/October 1993 Essay

Playing a Good Hand: The Secret of Shultz's Success

George P. Shultz rescued the Reagan administration from its dogmatism. By using America's growing strength, yet insisting on negotiations, Shultz created a...

Robert W. Tucker

United Nations Spring 1992 Essay

El Salvador's Negotiated Revolution

The war in El Salvador is over. On January 16, 1992, in Mexico City’s ornate Chapultepec Castle the government of President Alfredo Cristiani and the rebel Farabundo...

Terry Lynn Karl

Theory America and the World 1990 Essay

The Unipolar Moment

The immediate post-Cold War world is not multipolar. The center ofworld power is the unchallenged superpower, the United States, attended by its Western allies.

Charles Krauthammer

Democratization Winter 1990/91 Essay

East-Central Europe: The Morning After

Although the intoxication of the revolutions of 1989 has been followed by painful realizations of the pervasive legacy of the communist period (attitudes, bureaucracy)...

Charles Gati

Arms Control & Disarmament Spring 1989 Review Essay

Book Review Essay

"A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought." The words are Ronald Reagan's. While McGeorge Bundy, like many others, finds Reagan's thinking about nuclear...

Gregory F. Treverton

Economic Development America and the World 1988 Essay

The U.S. and Latin America: A Lost Decade?

Covers US foreign policy in Latin America during 1988, discussing (1) Nicaragua (2) Panama and the Noriega problem (3) drug trafficking (4) the progress towards...

Margaret Daly Hayes

Central America Caribbean - Foreign Affairs

U.S. Foreign Policy America and the World 1988 Essay

Reagan's Foreign Policy

Generally praises President Reagan's achievements in foreign policy, contrasting the bleak end of the Carter years with the break-throughs made at the close of the...

Robert W. Tucker

U.S. Foreign Policy America and the World 1988 Essay

Europe and the Reagan Years

Europeans were troubled by the setbacks of four successive presidents from Johnson to Carter, and thus Reagan's election was greeted with a sense of relief. Europeans...

Paul Johnson

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