Washington Institute

“Comprehensive, imaginative and important....
This unique volume addresses simultaneously the complex issues of morality,
diplomacy, and vulnerability in the arm control process. The reader is
bound to be both challenged and educated.

That the twenty-first century will be the “century of Asia” has become
an accepted–though still unproven–opinion in many parts of the Western
world. Certainly there has been spectacular economic growth with-in the
hemisphere over the last several decades.

Riots in South Africa. Starvation in Ethiopia. Drought in the Sahel.
While these problems create international news, they have received minimal
attention from our politicians, even in election years, according to Elliott
P.

Riots in South Africa. Starvation in Ethiopia. Drought in the Sahel.
While these problems create international news, they have received minimal
attention from our politicians, even in election years, according to Elliott
P.

Since June 1989, a critical debate over how the United States government and private sector should
respond to events in the People’s Republic of China has preoccupied American policymakers and
independent experts in international affairs.

The end of World War II created a new international order with
new sets of conflicts and concerns. A divided Europe became largely dependent
upon two non-European superpowers with profoundly competing economic, political,
and religious values.

The end of World War II created a new international order with
new sets of conflicts and concerns. A divided Europe became largely dependent
upon two non-European superpowers with profoundly competing economic, political,
and religious values.

“This is a well-balanced and carefully researched
study of the short-term causes of China’s Cultural Revolution.... Wedeman’s
single chapter on the Cultural Revolution itself is an excellent, if highly
compressed summary.

In recent years democratization has become a global phenomenon, as authoritarian
systems have collapsed in Latin America, Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa. and
East Asia. The factors that spark democratization, shape the dynamic transformation
of political systems, and effect the success of fledgling democracies have become
issues of major scholarly and political interest.

“This book brings out new conceptions and
perspectives....The chapters on Japan and Taiwan are especially interesting
and thought-provoking.”–Yuan-li Wu, Professor of Economics,
University of San Francisco, California
Human rights behind the bamboo curtain have always been something of
a mystery to the West.

Korea and America have changed drastically since 1882 when a treaty of peace, amity, commerce and navigation between the Kingdom of Choson and the United States was signed.
American news media reported in the 1960s and 1970s that South Korea was the only place where the slogan "Yankee Go Home" was not seen or heard.

Intricate events unfold
“Like a Tom Clancy thriller or an Anthony Price mystery, intricate events unfold across great distances whether of geography or of the mind...The Nixon-Kissinger Years is a devastating commentary on the conduct of American foreign relations by Kissinger.