The Pity of War By Niall Ferguson (New York: Basic Books, 1999. Pp. 606. $30 cloth.) Europe Sans War, 1914: Kaiser Bill and John Bull As Co-Hegemons by John H. Maurer Editor’s Note: Historiographical debate concerning the origins of the … Read more

EVENTS IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC of the Congo since early June have added to the general despair for Africa’s future. Uganda and Rwanda, two governments closely allied with the United States, have gone to war against each other in the … Read more

Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America’s Most Hated Senator By Arthur Herman (New York: Free Press, 2000. Pp. vi, 404. $26 cloth.) McCarthy and His Enemies, Revisited by Larry I. Bland* A POLITICAL TRACT DISGUISED AS A … Read more

by Amb. William C. Harrop

The author, president of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, assesses the Syrian leader over the three decades he exercised power. Developing the theme of the subtitle to his article, Dr. Sicherman makes clear how, and in what respects, Assad in … Read more

by Amb. Denis McLean

COLLECTIVE SECURITY, POSSE OR GLOBAL COP The U.S. and Global Security at the Turn of the Century by Erik Jensen THE WARBURG CHAIR in International Relations was endowed by Joan M. Warburg, herself a Simmons alumna, jointly in her own … Read more

by Eugene D. Schmiel   The author, a retired U.S. Foreign Service officer and frequent contributor of articles and opinion pieces to this journal, describes below a training program that should be of interest to our younger readers. The institute … Read more

The author lived in Havana as a Foreign Service spouse in the 1990s. Here she presents — in fictional form — an impression of Cuban life at that time. ~ Ed.   THE SEA STRETCHES OUT, LUMINOUS AND BLUE, to … Read more

On April 4 the U.S. Department of State released Foreign Relations, 1964-1968, volume XVIII, Arab-Israeli Dispute, 1964-1967. This documentary collection recounts the difficulties President Lyndon Johnson and other U.S. policymakers encountered in dealing with the long-standing Arab-Israeli conflict from 1964 … Read more

The author served in the American embassy in Ottawa and as Canadian desk officer in the Department of State, 1947-1951. Ambassador Dale retired after thirty years in the Foreign Service in 1975.– Ed.   AT AN INFORMAL RECEPTION given by … Read more

by Ronald D. Palmer BALANCE AND HARMONY ARE HIGHLY prized values in complex Indonesia, a state with more than 7,000 islands, 200 million people and hundreds of dialects and cultures where 87 percent of the population is Muslim, but where … Read more

By Victor Fic   Years of Renewal By Henry A. Kissinger (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Pp. 1,119. $35 cloth.)     Henry Kissinger might just refute Andy Warhol’s nostrum that every American will be famous for fifteen minutes. … Read more

  Called to Serve The Life of An American Envoy By Kenneth Vickery   Safirka: An American Envoy By Peter Bridges (Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 227 $24 cloth.)   A career Foreign Service officer, … Read more

Two if by Sea By Henry Mattox There were, however, glimmerings of something more than a time-serving careerist. As early as 1879 Mahan published an article in the Naval Institute Proceedings and in 1883, while assigned to the Brooklyn Navy … Read more

by Denis McLean

The author, a senior U.S. diplomat now retired, sheds light on the background to some of the negotiations involved in the thirty-five-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) that resulted in the August 1975 Helsinki Accords. Mr.Stefan participated … Read more

Sir Kieran, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, delivered the Keynote address at the Warburg 2000 Conference luncheon at Simmons College February 29.   I SPEND MOST OF MY DAYS not as a cop or a posse member, but as … Read more

By Michael Kolodner     The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite By Robert D. Kaplan (New York: The Free Press, 1993. Pp. 333; 1995 reprint, $2.99 paper available at www.bookcloseouts.com.) This is a fascinating history of one of … Read more

  ETWEEN 1945, WHEN WORLD WAR II ENDED, and 1991, when the Soviet Union disintegrated, we lived in a bipolar world. Since 1991, the United States has been the only superpower. Remarkable opportunities open to a nation with global reach, … Read more