Chinese Expansion and Western Influence in 21st Century Africa
February 2010
by David Alexander Robinson
Tag: Americas
Release of Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Vol. XX, Southeast Asia, Announced
December 2006
Release of Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Vol. XX, Southeast Asia, Announced Office of the Historian Bureau of Public Affairs United States Department of State December 15, 2006 The Department of State released today Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume … Read more
George Bush’s Unfinished Asian Agenda
June 2005
The author bases this informative survey on a presentation he made in April to a university study group on Asia. As the reader will note, he finds the record mixed, with successes in dealing with China and Japan, and a … Read more
The Real Axis of Evil
March 2004
Ambassador Mark Palmer is the author of the recently published Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World’s Last Dictators by 2025 (2003) in which he tells the story of all the world’s remaining dictators, their vulnerabilities, and how … Read more
Canada and Quebec in 2003: A Time of Transition
September 2003
The author, a retired career diplomat, served as minister-counselor for political affairs at the U. S. embassy in Ottawa during the mid-1990s and has kept a close interest in Canadian politics. Mr. Jones has published previously on the topic in … Read more
How to Save the UN-a Personal Statement
April 2003
This old observer finds himself still, at this late writing, caught between two points of view: not fully committed either to launching a war in Iraq or to strong opposition under practically all circumstances. Not completely convinced that Saddam’s Iraq … Read more
John Bull and Uncle Sam Grapple With South East Asian Nationalism
December 2002
Review by Carl Fritz
Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965. By Matthew Jones. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 325.)