Systems of government are scraping against each other like continents grinding at a fault line. The noise they make announces a new world disordered. These clashes are not just because of Vladimir Putin or the new hard-line Chinese leadership of …
The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did) by James Traub Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2008, 272 pp., $25.00 “Stepping Back from Democratic Pessimism” by Thomas Carothers Carnegie Papers, Carnegie Endowment for International …
Preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons is desirable. But is it vitally necessary or just desirable? Is it doable, and, if so, at what cost? Answers to those questions will explain why I think we should try to prevent, but …
The twin crises in Somalia and Bosnia have produced a crisis in UN peace enforcement. The high hopes of a “new era” hailed by Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali have crashed in the streets of southern Mogadishu and the very un-“safe …
