ORBIS articles from January 2000

ORBIS archives from January 2000

Editor's Column.
January 1, 2000... Good riddance, twentieth century. May the future never cause us to look back to you with nostalgia. But I speak as a 53-year-old, and people the age of my students, who have known nothing but victory in the Cold War, Gulf War, and stock...

China's Economic Squeeze.
January 1, 2000... China is in a squeeze. The domestic cause is the same familiar one that sparked the recent Asian crisis: government use of the credit system to give special privileges to certain firms (in China's case, the state enterprises). Excessive...

The Chinese Puzzle of Taiwan's Status.
January 1, 2000... When Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui told a German radio interviewer in July 1999 that relations between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan were "state-to-state or at least special nation-to-nation"...

Lessons from the Taiwan Relations Act.
January 1, 2000... Twenty years ago the United States severed its diplomatic relations with the Republic of China (ROC). [1] The Taiwan Relations Act (TEA) was then enacted in 1979 to preserve and promote commercial, cultural, and other relations between the...

Theater Missile Defense and Taiwan's Security.
January 1, 2000... In a complex world there are few policy choices that carry all positive or all negative consequences for the security of the states involved. [1] The decision facing the Republic of China on Taiwan (and the United States) about whether or not...

Russia as Rogue Proliferator.(weapons of mass destruction)
January 1, 2000... Although Russian leaders regularly deny it, the scope of Russian sales of dual-use and conventional technology and weapons indicates that Russia, as a matter of policy, is proliferating weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Such proliferation...

Facing Nuclear and Conventional Reality.
January 1, 2000... Throughout the Cold War, nuclear deterrence formed the foundation of U.S. national security policy. The United States relied upon its nuclear arsenal to deter a strike not only upon its own territory, but upon allies in Europe and Asia as...

The Risks of a Networked Military.(military technology)
January 1, 2000... the JCISS Study Group Lost in the welter of daily crises--Serbian atrocities, Chinese espionage, North Korean nuclear programs, and Iraqi intransigence--is the big story about American defense policy. [1] Away from the headlines, as the...

Covert Operations, Now More Than Ever.
January 1, 2000... Lord Acton's famous maxim about the corruptive influence of power is just as true with regard to "absolute" military force as it is with regard to power in the domestic political realm. He might even have added that command of unmatched...

The Dangers of Trendy Strategies.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Preventive Defense: A New Security Strategy for America. By Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry. (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1999. 243 pp. $24.95.) Coercive Military Strategy. By Stephen J. Gimbala. (College Station,...

McNamara's Struggle for Understanding.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy. By Robert S. McNamara et al. (New York: Public Affairs, 1999. 507 PP. $27.50.) In 1995 former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara published In Retrospect, a memoir of...