United States

    • Event

    Beyond Tiananmen: The Politics of U.S.-China Relations 1989-2000

    • July 15, 2003

    Observers often think that policymakers make decisions as a result of carefully reasoned and vetted processes that take into account potential strategic and long-term implications. In reality, decisions by both U.S. and Chinese officials concerning the bilateral relationship have been made on the basis of very personal and short-term political reasons.

    • Commentary

    Why Dictators Aren't Dominoes

    The experience of recent decades shows that while the direct application of military force can certainly oust defiant dictators, military threats and bluster almost never do. While rapid regime change seemingly offers a quick fix, the U.S. will still need sustained diplomatic solutions to its security problems.

    • Commentary

    Lula Needs a Lift from America

    • Commentary

    Dangers of an aggressive US approach to Iran

    • Event

    Is Anti-Americanism a Self-Inflicted Wound?

    Listen to audio from an FP-Carnegie Debate with Minxin Pei and Francis Fukuyama. Click below to download audio.

    • Commentary

    Neutralize Nuclear Subs

    Most of Russia's aging nuclear submarines still have their nuclear fuel and nuclear waste on board, and many are tied up at docks that are at best lightly guarded. These submarines contain the raw materials for nuclear terrorism and need to be urgently dismantled and disposed of in an environmentally sound manner.

    • Event

    St. Petersburg Summit: Pre-Summit Briefing

    The bilateral relationship has not benefited from the Iraq crisis, and despite common interests like terrorism and proliferation, the U.S.-Russian partnership is likely to remain shallow in the future. The failure of Putin to support the U.S. make it less likely that Bush will spend a lot of his political capital on Russia. Now the question is how much political capital Moscow is ready to invest.

    • Commentary

    Punishing Democracy

    Coming out of the war in Iraq, however, the Bush team appears to be in danger of losing a workable balance between the security and democracy imperatives. The administration's recent scramble to reconfigure U.S. policy on free trade agreements is a case in point.

    • Commentary

    New Arms for Taiwan? What Folly, Pentagon

    The Pentagon's proposal to sell missiles to Taiwan must rank in a league of most ill-considered policy initiatives by itself. Obviously, the timing for pressuring Taiwan to purchase these systems is awkward. The US should seek all the diplomatic and strategic help it can get from China, and clearly it is no time to slap Beijing in the face.

    • Commentary

    Trap of Their Own Making

    The most important question now facing the world is the use the Bush Administration will make of its military dominance, especially in the Middle East. The next question is when and in what form resistance to US domination over the Middle East will arise. That there will be resistance is certain.

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