Volume 130 - Number 4 - Winter 2015-16
Did Chirac Say ‘Non ’? Revisiting UN Diplomacy on Iraq, 2002-03 Stefano Recchia revisits the George W. Bush administration’s attempt in the spring of 2003 to secure UN approval for the Iraq war. Drawing on new evidence from declassified documents and interviews with senior officials, he argues that the administration would have stood a good chance of securing UN approval—notwithstanding French opposition. But the administration had to be willing to postpone the start of military operations by up to six weeks and endorse a set of demanding benchmarks for Iraqi compliance, as proposed by Britain and several nonpermanent members of the Security Council.
Volume 130 - Number 3 - Fall 2015
Saint or Sinner? Human Rights and U.S. Support for the Arms Trade Treaty JENNIFER L. ERICKSON analyses the U.S. decision to support the UN Arms Trade Treaty initiative in October 2009. She argues that this support was part of a broader policy shift toward multilateralism that the Obama administration made in an effort to repair the reputation of the United States within the diplomatic community.
Volume 130 - Number 3 - Fall 2015
Is the Pentagon Papers Case Relevant in the Age of WikiLeaks? Bruce E. Altschuler revisits the Pentagon Papers case to determine its relevance in the internet age. He argues that the emergence of independent leakers with access to the internet has shifted greater responsibility on the mainstream media to practice self-restraint and to decide what to publish. The emergence of independent leakers has also accelerated prosecutions by the Obama administration.
Volume 130 - Number 3 - Fall 2015
Is the American Century Over? Joseph S. Nye, Jr. , discusses whether the “American century” beginning in 1941 has come to the end. He argues that transnational and non-state forces are changing America’s pre-eminence, but that we are not entering a post-American world.
Volume 130 - Number 2 - Summer 2015
Understanding International Partnership: The Complicated Rapprochement between the United States and Brazil Javier Corrales studies the rapprochement between the United States and Brazil in an effort to develop a theory about international partnerships. He contends that power transitions can offer new incentives for cooperation so long as the existing power faces greater security threats in other regions of the world and the rising power meets certain tests of reliability.
Volume 129 - Number 2 - Summer 2014
Finding Bin Laden: Lessons for a New American Way of Intelligence
Volume 128 - Number 4 - Winter 2013-14
The India Lobby and the Nuclear Agreement with India
Volume 127 - Number 4 - Winter 2012-2013
The Paradox of Islam’s Future RAYMOND W. BAKER argues that although violent extremism flows from radical Islamic movements, the Islamic mainstream has effectively adapted to the globalized world and will shape the future of Islam in ways open to principled accommodation with the West. He claims that mainstream assertiveness, unencumbered by Western interference, provides the most effective way to counter destructive radicalism.
Volume 127 - Number 3 - Fall 2012
From Cold War to Hot Peace: The Habit of American Force Richard K. Betts considers the discrepancy between ambition and cost tolerance that has led the United States to use force too often but also too indecisively since the Cold War. He argues that Washington should use American primacy not to attempt dominance on the cheap but to manage a transition to a global balance of power.
Volume 127 - Number 2 - Summer 2012
The China Card: Playing Politics with Sino-American Relations Peter Trubowitz and Jungkun Seo examine how and when China emerged as a “hot button” issue in American politics. They show that the politicization of Sino-American relations has had as much to do with electoral strategizing and gamesmanship in the United States as it did with geopolitical considerations in dealing with Beijing.
