American Neutrality
The Experience of 1914-1917 October 1, 1935 Charles Seymour THREATS of war in Europe have raised the question of what steps the United States should take to preserve neutrality and have led to...
View ArticleWoodrow Wilson in Perspective
January 1, 1956 Charles Seymour TOWARDS the close of Woodrow Wilson's campaign for reëlection to the Presidency of the United States, at a moment when prospects seemed unpromising, he remarked: "As...
View ArticleForty Years On
October 1, 1962 the Earl of Avon Summary: For those who were close to international events in the nineteen twenties and took a part in the errors and shortcomings of the next decade, there is a...
View ArticleThe Spirit of Locarno: Illusions of Pactomania
July 1, 1972 J. B. Duroselle Summary: For five years between 1925 and 1929, a certain portion of mankind, like those parched travelers in the desert who think they have glimpsed the oasis which will...
View ArticleDilemmas of Détente: Apparatchiks and Entrepreneurs: US-Soviet Economic...
January 1, 1974 Raymond Vernon Summary: If the world should erupt before these words are in print, the fault is unlikely to lie with the policy of détente. So far, the advantages of détente have been...
View ArticleThe Coming of the Second World War
September 1, 1989 John Lukacs Summary: The two world wars are the mountain ranges that dominate the historical landscape of the twentieth century. We still live in their shadows, in America as well as...
View ArticleThomas Jefferson and American Foreign Policy
March 1, 1990 Robert W. Tucker and David C. Hendrickson Summary: Jefferson's conceptions of the US national interest, and of the diplomatic postures by which it was most fit to be advanced, still...
View ArticleOn American Principles
March 1, 1995 George F. Kennan Summary: Faced with demands for support from rebellious Spanish colonies in South America following the Napoleonic wars, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams enunciated a...
View ArticleFirst Principals
July 1, 2004 Walter Russell Mead Ron Chernow's new biography examines Alexander Hamilton's role in the founding of the American republic and his contribution to its conflictual political...
View ArticleSmall War, Big Consequences
Why 1812 Still Matters October 31, 2012 Donald R. Hickey Today, the War of 1812 is all but forgotten. But as two recent books show, its legacies -- helping professionalize the U.S. military, planting...
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