ORBIS articles

Recent articles from ORBIS

Editor's Column.(Editorial)
December 22, 2001... FPRI's vice president, Alan Luxenberg, has a puckish sense of humor, so I chuckled upon reading his six-word e-mail responding to my resignation as editor of Orbis: "I'm surprised you lasted so long!" I am, too, because when I signed on in early spring 1994 my plan was to do this for five...

Changing the Watch.(editor steps down)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... This issue concludes a golden era when Orbis was edited by Prof. Walter McDougall, one of America's most distinguished historians. How Walter came to Orbis and what he did with it is a story worth the telling. When I became Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in 1993, Orbis was...

The Strategic Implications of a Nuclear India.
December 22, 2001... After a hiatus of almost twenty-four years, India startled the world in May 1998 by resuming nuclear testing at a time when the international community solemnly expressed a desire through the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to refrain from the field-testing of nuclear explosives. On May...

The Jewish Security Dilemma.
December 22, 2001... The al-Aqsa intifada of autumn 2000 and the ensuing war of attrition have brought security back to the center of the Jewish agenda and have decisively shaped the ongoing process of mutual renegotiation of identities between Israeli and American Jews. Recent political and security developments...

Japan's Quest for Great Power Identity.
December 22, 2001... Japanese foreign policy in the middle of 2001 was in utter disarray. The Japanese media resorted to terms such as pandemonium, paralysis, terror, and war. (1) Makiko Tanaka's idiosyncrasy as foreign minister in the new Junichiro Koizumi cabinet accounted for some but not all of the turmoil....