Tag: Europe and Eurasia
U. S. Department of State Releases Foreign Relations of the United States Volumes
On the Soviet Union, 1964-1968, the Near East Region and Arabian Peninsula, 1964-68; and South Korea, 1964-68
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The Troia Horse
A BRAZILIAN DIPLOMAT in Lisbon first mentioned Tróia to my husband and me soon after our arrival in the late 1960s. His enthusiastic description of the place sent us there on the next springlike Sunday. My husband, Alf, had been … Continued
Europe Sans War, 1914: Kaiser Bill and John Bull As Co-Hegemons
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 … Continued
Warburg Conference: Europe in the 21st Century
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 … Continued
American Interests, American Values, and War in the Balkans
Ambassador James Bullington’s years in the career Foreign Service included three tours of duty in Vietnam. The following is the text of a speech he delivered to the Rotary Club of Norfolk, Virginia on June 23, 1999. ~ Ed “But … Continued
Let Sleeping Tsars Lie: The Curse of the Romanovs
by Keith Moon “Yeltsin himself came to fame in the old Soviet system when, in 1974 as the regional Communist leader in Sverdlovsk (now renamed Ekaterinburg), he ordered the razing of the Ipatiev House where the last Romanov tsar and … Continued
Attitudes Toward European Security, 1990-1997
by Sorin Lungu INTRODUCTION Among the myriad complex issues raised by the end of the Cold War in Europe, the most confusing and frustrating by far have concerned the elaboration of an institutional security system consistent with the … Continued
Bombs for Peace: Misreading Kosovo
Bombs for Peace? MISREADING KOSOVO A Senior Fellow at Foreign Policy Research Institute, Dr. Radu has written extensively on Balkan questions. See also his “Terrorism in Latin America: Learning from Lima” in Volume II, Number 2, 4th of July 1997,of … Continued
Transitional Governance A Return to the Trusteeship System?
The author served as U.S. ambassador to Guinea-Bissau and as deputy representative to ECOSOC at the UN in New York during his more than thirty years in the U.S. Foreign Service. See his “Vietnam Reconsidered” in Vol. III, No. 1 … Continued