Russian foreign policy in transition; concepts and realities.
9637326170 Russian foreign policy in transition; concepts and realities. Ed. by Andrei Melville and Tatiana Shakleina. Central European U. Press 2005 496 pages $54.95 Hardcover DK510 This anthology put together by...

Military collaboration with humanitarian organizations in complex emergencies.
Until the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, few aside from professional aid workers paid attention to one of the first major humanitarian crises of the twenty-first century. After over twenty years of continuous warfare, the Afghani population was nearly at the breaking point; more than 2 million Afghani...

Defining Canadian security: continuities and discontinuities (1).
Introduction With every new prime minister coming into office in Canada, observers of Canadian foreign policy have become accustomed to calls for a foreign policy review: Pierre Elliott Trudeau in 1968, Brian Mulroney in 1984, Jean Chretien in 1993, and upon taking office in December 2003, Prime...

"Micromanagement" of the U.S. aid budget and the presidential allocation of attention.
How presidents allocate their time and attention is a venerable part of the folklore of the presidency. Does a president like to spend time talking with people, or is he a loner? Does the president read a great deal, or not? Does he make a habit of attending National...

GMA in talks with Saudi King; 50 convicted OFWs get sentence commutation Bilateral issues taken up during visit.
Byline: DAVID CAGAHASTIAN RIYADH (via PLDT) - President Arroyo held talks with King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia on Sunday (early yesterday in Manila) at His Majesty's Royal Palace after she and her delegation attended the state dinner hosted by the King in her...

Are failed states a threat to America? The Bush administration's nation-building efforts are a big mistake.
THROUGHOUT THE 1990S, conservatives castigated the Clinton administration for conducting foreign policy like social work, taking on vague, ill-defined missions in remote locales from Haiti to Bosnia. Although the editors of The Weekly Standard enthusiastically supported the Clinton administration's interventions in the Balkans, most on the right were encouraged...

The Commander in Chief and the courts.
The Bush administration claims to have sweeping, inherent, and unchecked war powers to conduct its war against terror. In 2002, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel argued that "Congress could no more regulate the President's ability to detain and interrogate enemy combatants than it may regulate his ability...

Realism and idealism in New Zealand's foreign policy.
David McCraw compares the approaches to international affairs of the National and Labour parties. The foreign policy philosophies of New Zealand's two major political parties correspond quite well with the tenets of two opposing theories of international relations. The National Party's foreign policy outlook seems closest to that...

Know nothings: U.S. intelligence failures stem from too much information, not enough understanding.
U.S. intelligence failures stem from too much information, not enough understanding. Mr. Hillen, an NR contributing editor, is the Olin Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Over the past month diplomats and military officers from the U.S. and NATO have been struggling to...

The Next World War: Computers Are the Weapons and the Front Line Is Everywhere.
Mr. Hillen, an NR contributing editor, is the Olin Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. The Next World War: Computers Are the Weapons and the Front Line Is Everywhere, by James Adams (Simon & Schuster, 366 pp., $25) A VETERAN faces an overwhelming...