International Security articles from September 2000

International Security archives from September 2000

Editors' Note.
September 22, 2000... Does strategy exist? The skeptics say no: The realities of war--its boundless complexities and uncertainties--make effective strategy impossible. Others who respond positively nonetheless disagree on strategy's central features and its...

Is Strategy an Illusion?
September 22, 2000... Strategy is the essential ingredient for making war either politically effective or morally tenable. It is the link between military means and political ends, the scheme for how to make one produce the other. Without strategy, there is no...

Why China Cannot Conquer Taiwan.
September 22, 2000... After a decade of intense focus on Iraq and North Korea, the U.S. defense planning community needs to devote more attention to possible war in the Taiwan Strait. The China-Taiwan relationship is structurally unstable and potentially...

The 1995-96 Taiwan Strait Confrontation.
September 22, 2000... Coercion, Credibility, and the Use of Force On May 22, 1995, the White House approved a visa for Lee Teng-hui to visit the United States in early June to attend his graduate school reunion at Cornell University The decision to allow...

Bringing in Darwin.
September 22, 2000... Evolutionary Theory, Realism, and International Politics Efforts to develop a foundation for scientific knowledge that would unite the natural and social sciences date to the classical Greeks. Given recent advances in genetics and...

Breaking New Ground or Breaking the Rules.
September 22, 2000... Strategic Reorientation in U.S. Industrial Policy Whether it has been in the process of building a new nation or the new economy, the United States has had to grapple with enduring industrial policy issues. At the time of the Founding...

The Constructivist Challenge to Structural Realism.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Alexander Wendt, Social Theory of International Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 For more than a decade realism, by most accounts the dominant paradigm in international relations theory, has been under assault by the...

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 JFK Street Harvard University Cambridge MA 02138 The Center for Science and International Affairs (CSIA) was established in 1973 to advance understanding and resolution of...