The Washington Quarterly articles from March 1995

The Washington Quarterly archives from March 1995

The once and future Security Council. (UN)
March 22, 1995... The Post-Cold War revival of the United Nations (UN) Security Council has come with a price: many UN members are questioning the Council's legitimacy and calling for its restructuring. Oddly enough, the possible restructuring of what is...

Democratic opposition in Russia: an alternative to Yeltsin? (Boris Yeltsin)
March 22, 1995... For most Russians, as well as for some Western observers, the events of late 1994 signified a confirmation of growing authoritarianism in Russia and the steady alienation of President Boris Yeltsin from his former reform-minded, liberal allies...

The integrationist temptation. (former Soviet Union)
March 22, 1995... The Historian Polybius, contemplating the rise of Rome to world empire, believed he was witnessing a unique gathering of power: For although Fortune is forever producing something new and forever enacting a drama in the lives of men, yet she...

Half before Europe, half past NATO.
March 22, 1995... We won the Cold War in Europe, but who is "we" and what did we win? Instead of the new and vibrant Europe whose birth had been widely announced at Maastricht, an old and somber Europe seems to have been reborn. Liberation from Soviet power and...

Collective security in Europe today.
March 22, 1995... After every great war an attempt has been made to create a system of collective security for Europe: after Napoleon, the Holy Alliance; after World War I, the League of Nations; after World War II, the United Nations (UN). And now, after the...

Prospects for an EU-NAFTA free trade agreement.
March 22, 1995... Several Seminal events in the early 1990s have set the stage for renewed thinking about a free trade agreement (FTA) between countries that subscribe to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and to the European Union (EU). * The...

Losing the moment? The United States and the world after the Cold War.
March 22, 1995... Three years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States is heading toward squandering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shape the future of the world because it still does not have a broadly agreed upon vision and a grand...

New strategic priorities. (the US in the post-Cold War era)
March 22, 1995... Five years after the Berlin Wall fell, the United States is still searching for its new strategic compass. A clear understanding of global security trends, U.S. interests, and U.S. strategic priorities is an essential prerequisite to sound...

What vision for the nuclear future?
March 22, 1995... The Upcoming Review and Extension Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) challenges the United States to sketch out a coherent vision of the nuclear future. The conference will decide the fate of the NPT and determine whether...

Counterproliferation: putting new wine in old bottles.
March 22, 1995... Counterproliferation catapulted to national and international attention as the first major defense initiative of the Clinton administration when it was officially unveiled by Secretary of Defense Les Aspin in December 1993.(1) Almost as soon as...

India and the United States.
March 22, 1995... experience, including peacekeeping in the Middle East, Congo (Zaire), Cyprus, Cambodia, and now Somalia. India has also had unparalleled experience in dealing with large flows of refugees (8 million in 1947-48 and 10 million in 1971)....

Beyond proliferation: the challenge of technology diffusion.
March 22, 1995... The collapse of the Soviet Union, Iraq's challenge to the international community, and the rogue actions of North Korea have focused a spotlight on the dangerous and destabilizing impact of the spread of the instruments of war in the post-cold...