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CIAO DATE: 09/05
Summer 2004 (No. 76)
Articles
A Strategic Defense Initiative
By Carnes Lord. This is not your father's "Star Wars." Missile Defense is real, it's coming, and it will be a indispensible instrument of American power.
Auditing Arrogance
By Yevgeny Primakov
Averting an Iraq Syndrome
By David B. Rivkin
Behind the Silk Curtain
By Joe Bob Briggs. Despot Watch Turns the spotlight on Islam Karimov, America's newest Central Asian ally.
China's Growing Appetites
By David Hale. Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet--unless they need to secure access to strategic natural resources.
Democracy's Trojan Horse
By John Fonte. In the 21st century, the gravest threat to representative government may come from within.
Fighting for Oil?
By Edward L. Morse
Gauging the Aftermath
By Michael O'Hanlon and Adriana Lins de Albuquerque
Insecuring Iraq
By Daniel Byman
Losing the Peace?
By Geoffrey Kemp
Recovering Our Nerve
By Niall Ferguson
Reorienting Transatlantic Defense
By Rep. Doug Bereuter and John Lis. NATO is neither obsolete nor a threat to a common European defense force. Rather, it is the centerpiece of Euro-Atlantic foreign policy and a catalyst for European defense reform.
Rescuing the Future
By John R. Thomson and Hussain Hindawi
Response: Can NATO survive Europe?
By E. Wayne Merry
Rethinking the Strategy
By Dimitri K. Simes
Retreating in Good Order
By William E. Odom
Sand in Our Eyes: U.S.-Saudi Relations After Iraq
By Martin Sieff. Relations with the Desert Kingdom suffered before 9/11. Now they're on the ropes. But Washington can ill afford the loss of this critical ally, even when it's not on its best behavior.
Sitting on Bayonets: America's Postwar Challenges in Iraq
By Michael Eisenstadt. Michael Eisenstadt reckons that the Bush Administration sees the light at the end of the.... Well, let's just say in could be worse.
Spain's Atlantic Option
By Valenti Puig. Spain's recent election has altered Madrid's foreign policy strategy. The transatlantic window is closing. Can it be re-opened?
Strengthening the Fainthearts
By John Hillen
The Cult of Precaution
By Roger Scruton. The high priests of the European Commission invoke the arcane scripture of the Precautionary Principle to justify their environmental enyclicals--the wages of reason be damned.
The Democratic Imperative
By Adrian Karatnycky. The world's democrats have joined forces, to the benefit of all involved.
The Neoconservative Moment
By Francis Fukuyama. Charles Krauthammer's "democratic globalism" fails as a guiding principle of foreign policy and creates more questions than answers.
Thinking Through Liberation
By Amir Taheri
Transferring Sovereignty
By James R. Schlesinger
Vivisecting the Jihad
By: Alexis Debat
Reviews
Not the Faith of Their Fathers
By Martin Walker. Two unlikely adherents to their respective faiths, Bush and Blair find peace in war.
Prudence and the Prince
By Fred E. Baumann. Carnes Lord Takes the gloves back off Machiavelli and gives us something we can use.
Requiem for a Genocide
By Neil McInnes. Keith Windschuttle revises the revisionists and does the post-colonial "history" of Tasmania a good turn--on its head.
Russia's Straight-Talk Express
By Nikolas K. Gvosdev. Yevgeny Primakov hates to say "I told you so", but....
Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?
By Harvey Sicherman. There is no shortage of books on security and strategy in a world beset by terror. "Fortunately, writes Harvey Sicherman, "most are short."