Summary Whether it’s the Vatican addressing its role in the Second World War or the United States atoning for its treatment of native Hawai’ian islanders,…
Publication Type: Books
Summary Former Ambassador Gregg maintained a deep and lasting relationship with President Kim since, during his time as CIA Station Chief in Seoul, he helped…
Summary After a devastating world war, culminating in the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was clear that the United States and the Soviet Union…
Summary The age of Western hegemony is over. Whether or not America itself is declining, the post-war liberal world order underpinned by US military, economic…
Summary With American leadership facing increased competition from China and India, the question of how hegemons emerge—and are able to create conditions for lasting stability—is…
Summary For decades the United States has been the most dominant player on the world’s stage. The country’s economic authority, its globally forceful foreign policy,…
Summary Many Baby Boomers still recall crouching under their grade-school desks in frequent bomb drills during the Cuban Missile Crisis—a clear representation of how terrified…
Summary The Asian Financial Crisis dramatically illustrated the vulnerability of financial markets in emerging, transitional, and advanced economies. In response, international organizations insisted that legal…
Abstract This article offers a survey of risks that might arise for strategic stability (defined as a situation with a low probability of major-power war)…
Summary Nuclear weapons have always been a serious but seemingly insoluble problem: while they’re obviously dangerous, they are also, apparently, necessary. This groundbreaking study shows…
Summary Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines ‘the problem of order’ arising from the…
Summary President Obama’s administration came to office with the world on fire. Confront and Conceal is the story of how, in his first term, Obama secretly used…
Summary Too often, our focus on the relative handful of countries with nuclear weapons keeps us from asking an important question: Why do so many…
Summary Throughout the past century, and before, U.S.-China relations have been marked by large swings in mutual perceptions and attitudes. Over the last decade in…
Summary In this startling book, now in paperback, the bestselling author of Explaining Hitler warns that a nuclear World War III is not only the most massive and…
