Category: Special Reports

AFSA Statement in the “Congressional Record” — Facts and Figures on Personnel Needs

by W. Hays Parks

by Michael P. Noonan

Special Report on Two Scholarly Conferences
by Henry E. Mattox

by Scott L. Silliman

by J.R. Bullington

HERE ARE MANY BAD WAYS to conduct foreign policy, but surely one of the worst is to take a complex challenge and reduce it to a single issue. Colombia is not just the place that feeds America’s voracious appetite for … Read more

  ALTHOUGH PRESIDENT CLINTON SEEMS unaware of it, the $1.6 billion he is requesting to fight coca production in Colombia amounts to intervention in another country’s civil war. Neither the president nor the secretary of state has given the American … Read more

“If Western diplomacy has a role to play it will have to be discreet and carefully considered, always bearing in mind that the governing rule of diplomats, like that of doctors, must be ‘first, do no harm.’” by Monteagle Stearns* … Read more

“For many Pakistanis, their nuclear capacity has given them confidence that they can be more aggressive on Kashmir.” by Harry G. Barnes, Jr.* ET ME BEGIN WITH SOME personal recollections as a sort of scene setter. In the early 1980s, … 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

I HAVE TO TELL YOU ABOUT a conversation I had on the plane flying up from Washington. The man sitting next to me was a pilot, an air safety analyst, and a tai chi fan, and he was coming up … Read more

By Ralph D. Sawyer The author presented an earlier version of this paper at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, on March 22, 1996, as part of the “Study of War Project” sponsored by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies. He … Read more

– E X T R A C T – by David G. Brown Through the courtesy of the Asia Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Amb. Ron Palmer, we present in this issue excerpts from the … Read more

“It would be a mistake to let China’s saber-rattling sway American policy. ” by Thomas D. Grant The author, an international lawyer based in Massachusetts and a Ph.D. candidate at Cambridge University, has a scholarly interest in the international recognition … Read more

SPECIAL REPORT The author of this account has been a post-doctoral fellow at the Triangle Institute for Security Studies since mid-1997 and also teaches history at North Carolina State University. She earned a doctorate in history at Duke University in … Read more

A new project from American Diplomacy— • EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION• PROF. MICHAEL HUNT An Experiment in Oral History •McPHERSON Anti-Americanism at Ground Level • JACOBS Connecting Communities • ENDY A Most Unusual Type of Work • HUNT and MATTOX Further Notes … Read more

Conference on Conflict in Africa On February 5-6, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies will hold a conference at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill on conflict in Africa. Our purpose is to gather a distinguished group of scholars from … Read more

by Hermann Frederick Eilts