by Ronald Palmer

The author, director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies based at Duke University, sets forth a cogent, thoughtful rationale for the changed direction the United States has taken in waging preemptive war against a putative foe.—Ed. “The truth is … Read more

Review by Carl Fritz
Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961-1965. By Matthew Jones. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 325.)

by Ronald D. Palmer

Europe, Human Rights, and Terrorists
by Michael Radu

by Earl Lubensky

by Lucy Chester

by Ron Palmer

by Francis P. Sempa Often we remark that the convert exhibits an unusually devoted commitment to his or her new cause. Such evidently was the case with the subject of this essay. Remembered as an anticommunist American intellectual and dedicated … Read more

THE CONSEQUENCES of the war in Vietnam and Laos for U.S. relations with neighboring Southeast Asian states not directly involved in the conflict, as well as for the regional mutual defense organizations, are the focus of the documentary volume, Foreign … 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

by Ronald D. F. Palmer I. History of Recent TimesTHIS IS WRITTEN IN 1996, one year after the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War II was widely celebrated in the United States and Europe. The Asians marked the … Read more