The Man Who Waited Too Long
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
Warburg Conference: The US and Global Security at the Turn of the Century
by Amb. Denis McLean
Introduction to the Warburg 2000 Conference
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
From Repression to Reform? Indonesian Politics and the Military, 1997-1999
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
The United States and Global Security at the Turn of the Century
by Denis McLean
Secretary of State Kissinger and CSCE Negotiations: A Personal View
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
Warburg Conference Keynote: Collective Security: Posse or Global Cop?
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
The Arabists WASP Missionaries to Arabia
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
The Conduct of American Diplomacy
by William C. Harrop BETWEEN 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 … Read more
Indonesia CONFRONTING THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS
By Theodore Friend Further to the attention paid in this issue of American Diplomacy to Indonesian affairs, there follows the text of the author’s testimony before the House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, February … Read more
America and the World at the Dawn of a New Century
by Walter A. McDougall American Diplomacy takes pleasure in offering to its readership the text of Professor McDougall’s thoughtful keynote address at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s annual meeting held in Philadelphia in November 1999. Several people, including our host … Read more
Retrospective on the Infernal Triangle, A: Lebanon, Syria, and Israel
By Curtis F. Jones Drawing upon decades of experience in the Middle East, the author offers a historical look back, followed by his personal analysis of the current state of affairs in that volatile region. Mr. Jones, a retired senior … Read more
From Post Cold War to Post Westphalia
By Edward D. Marks In 1684 the Treaty of Westphalia brought to a close eighty years of religious wars in Europe with new rules of international law establishing the modern state system. The foundation of this system is the sovereign … Read more
The Quintessential American Diplomat
By Matthew Jacobs Proud Servant: The Memoirs of a Career Ambassador By Ellis O. Briggs (Kent,OH: Kent State University Press, 1998. xvi, 430 pp., 30 pp. illus.$45.00) Without question, Ellis Ormsbee Briggs (1899-1976) had one of the most impressive careers … Read more
Boris Yeltsin Enters the History Books
By Keith Moon On the last day of the twentieth century, the century that saw the rise and fall of world communism as represented by the Soviet Union, Russian President Boris Yeltsin abruptly resigned his office. And so departed from … Read more
Los Principios de Primacea y Operatividad en el Derecho Comunitario como Fundamentos para la Integracion de Latinoamerica
Por Dr. Prof. Eugenio Roberto Caligiuri Ammendolia1 y Alejandro A. Figueroa Véjar2 Europe’s progress toward a common market and steps toward political union have led to the question of whether—and how quickly—other regional groups might achieve these goals. South America’s … Read more
Mackinder’s World
By Francis P. Sempa Halford Mackinder’s ideas, which began to appear in print almost a century ago, have assumed classic status in the world of political geography. Policy makers and scholars remember them now mainly for the seemingly simple formula … Read more
The Forgotten “Plumed Knight”
By Gene Schmiel James G. Blaine: Architect of Empire By Edward P. Crapol (Wilmington, Delaware: SR Books, 2000. Pp. xx, 157. $50 cloth; $17.95 paper.) When the most respected biography of James G. Blaine was written in 1935, the author … Read more
Medical Encounters in Cuba, Late 1990’s
Medical Encounters in Cuba, Late 1990’s AD Follow-up An American Diplomacy interview with author Patricia Linderman In a separate article in this issue, the author describes an aspect of diplomatic life in Castro’s Cuba during recent years. Here Mrs. Linderman … Read more
Alliance in Doubt American Reaction to the 1960 US-Japanese Security Treaty Crisis
“Otto von Bismarck, the German Chancellor, said those who like sausage and the law should never watch them being made. We might add the conduct of foreign policy in a decentralized democracy to that list.” Alliance in Doubt American Reaction … Read more