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Parameters Spring 2006 Eric A. Heinze |
Humanitarian Intervention and the War in Iraq: Norms, Discourse, and State Practice If the idea of humanitarian intervention falls from grace because of its association with the Iraq-U.S. conflict as well as the U.S. war on terror, then a valuable instrument in the tool kit of human rights strategies may be rendered undeservedly useless. |
Parameters Autumn 2008 Michael Lind |
A Concert-Balance Strategy for a Multipolar World The United States is a superpower in search of a strategy. The neoconservative vision of unilateral US global hegemony lacks public support, but its critics have failed to propose a credible alternative capable of guiding US national security. |
Salon.com December 22, 2000 Laura Rozen |
Peacekeeping's pitfalls Growing tensions along the border between Kosovo and southern Serbia could mark the first challenge for President-elect Bush's foreign policy team. |
Parameters Autumn 2006 Liotta & Owen |
Sense and Symbolism: Europe Takes On Human Security A European culture with dubious historical reputation for cosmopolitanism is being thrust upon the global stage at the very moment when its geopolitical concepts are poised on the precipice of desuetude. |
Salon.com May 16, 2002 Suzy Hansen |
A little bit at war Wall Street Journal's Max Boot says that, contrary to the Powell doctrine, America can and should fight small wars, build nations and do without an exit strategy... |
Parameters Spring 2004 Peter B. Zwack |
A NATO-Russia Contingency Command The time may be opportune to consider establishing a tangible, combined NATO and Russian military entity to jointly face the challenges of the post-9/11 world. |
Reason May 2004 Matt Welch |
Temporary Doves Why are the architects of Kosovo so down on Gulf War II? Recent books from three key Yugoslavia warriors draw distinctions between Kosovo and Iraq, defining foreign policy differences between Democrats and Republicans in 2004. |
Parameters November 2004 Franklin Eric Wester |
Preemption and Just War: Considering the Case of Iraq This article demonstrates that the use of military force by the Bush Administration against the regime of Saddam Hussein does not meet the ethical criteria for "preemptive war" set forth in the classical Just War tradition. |
Parameters Autumn 2006 Stephen J. Coonen |
The Widening Military Capabilities Gap between the United States and Europe: Does it Matter? Military and political experts on both sides of the Atlantic assert that the widening military capabilities gap between the United States and Europe creates a more challenging environment for transatlantic cooperation. |
Parameters Summer 2007 Eric Wester |
Last Resort and Preemption: Using Armed Force as a Moral and Penultimate Choice Using armed force in peace enforcement operations (PEO) need not be reserved for a Last Resort even while preserving the integrity of Just War theory. |
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Steven E. Meyer |
Carcass of Dead Policies: The Irrelevance of NATO During the Cold War, NATO provided the proper linchpin of American--and West European--security policy, and served as a useful, even fundamental deterrent to Soviet military might and expansionism. However, NATO's time has come and gone, and today there is no legitimate reason for it to exist. |
Parameters Summer 2005 R. D. Hooker |
Beyond Vom Kriege: The Character and Conduct of Modern War While the methods used to wage war are constantly evolving, the nature and character of war remain deeply and unchangeably rooted in the nature of man. |
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 |
Book Reviews Reconstructing Eden: A Comprehensive Plan for the Post-War Political and Economic Development of Iraq... The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad... Defense's Nuclear Agency, 1947-1997... Diem's Final Failure: Prelude to America's War in Vietnam... etc. |
Reason October 2002 Ted Carpenter |
Fixing Foreign Policy How the U.S. should wage the war on terror |
Salon.com January 3, 2002 David Talbot |
The making of a hawk From Kuwait to Kosovo to Kabul, American firepower has been on the right side of history. The odyssey of a former dove... |
Parameters Spring 2007 Ryan C. Hendrickson |
The Miscalculation of NATO's Death NATO's history, its ability to overcome crises, an analysis of NATO expansion, its institutional flexibility, and evidence of renewed interest in the alliance by many of the world's great powers. |
Mother Jones October 1999 Todd Gitlin |
The End of the Absolute No The American left's reflexive opposition to U.S. military intervention broke down over Kosovo. A veteran activist says it's about time. |
Salon.com May 30, 2002 Suzy Hansen |
Taming the bear In a new book, former deputy secretary of state Strobe Talbott says Clinton deserves much credit for Russia's warming to the West -- and recalls a drunken Yeltsin calling for pizza in his underpants... |
Parameters Spring 2004 |
Book Reviews A book review of Beyond Baghdad. |
Parameters Autumn 2006 Michael R. Melillo |
Outfitting a Big-War Military with Small-War Capabilities Unfortunately, it took the tragedy of 9/11 and the challenges posed by an adaptive enemy for the U.S. to realize it was not prepared to fight war on terms other than its own choosing. |
Parameters Summer 2005 Pierre Lessard |
Campaign Design for Winning the War . . . and the Peace The current Western interpretation of campaign design must reunite with its strategic roots of ends and means in its quest to seek ways of winning both the war and the peace in the post-9/11 era. |
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003 Walczak & Dunham |
The Candidate from Central Casting But Wesley Clark's outsider status is a mixed blessing |
Parameters Summer 2007 Gary L. Guertner |
European Views of Preemption in US National Security Strategy The transatlantic divide over preemption. |
Parameters Spring 2005 Colin S. Gray |
How Has War Changed Since the End of the Cold War? For the West, and for the most part, 12 of the past 15 years can fairly be described as an interwar period. That brief no-name era, usually referred to neutrally as the post-Cold War period, came to an explosive end on 11 September 2001. |
BusinessWeek September 29, 2003 Bruce Nussbaum |
Clark: What's Wrong with U.S. Policy in Iraq His new book, Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism and the American Empire, is, in effect, Clark's campaign manifesto, providing insights into what he believes and what he would do as Commander-in-Chief. |
Salon.com January 12, 2001 Laura Rozen |
Radioactive fallout Did exposure to American depleted-uranium-tipped weapons cause the cancer deaths of some European peacekeepers who served in the Balkans? |
Parameters Winter 2005/2006 |
Book Reviews The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich... 1776 by David McCullough... West Point: Two Centuries and Beyond edited by Lance Betros... What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building by Noah Feldman... etc. |
Salon.com April 12, 2001 Suzy Hansen |
The invention of peace A leading military scholar talks about what caused the world wars, why Kissinger was a true peacemaker and whether peace is incompatible with human nature... |
Parameters Winter 2005/2006 Jeffrey Record |
Why the Strong Lose Why has the United States fared consistently well against such powerful enemies as Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union, but its record against lesser foes is decidedly mixed? |
National Defense January 2006 Harold Kennedy |
Europe-Based NATO Reaches Deep into Asia, Africa U.S. and allied military forces in Europe -- grappling with a lengthy, global war on terrorism -- are expanding their reach far beyond their traditional perimeters, deep into Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa. |
Reason April 2009 Cathy Young |
Unclenching the Fist U.S.-Russian relations in the age of Obama. |
Salon.com September 6, 2000 Laura Rozen |
Outlaws in an outlaw nation With Yugoslav election time approaching, Serbian activists face a new wave of repression as they try to fight the Milosevic regime from within. |
National Defense September 2015 Jon Harper |
NATO Funding Shortfalls Likely to Continue The latest Russian military intervention in Ukraine is forcing NATO to refocus its attention on its eastern flank. But concerns about a resurgent Russia will not prompt a large boost in alliance procurement. |
Parameters Spring 2005 Kenneth Payne |
The Media as an Instrument of War The media, in the modern era, are indisputably an instrument of war. This is because winning modern wars is as much dependent on carrying domestic and international public opinion as it is on defeating the enemy on the battlefield. |
Parameters Summer 2004 |
Editor's Shelf Authors examine the relationship between the military and the society it serves. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2002 Dimitri G. Demekas |
Southeastern Europe After the Kosovo Crisis In the wake of the Kosovo crisis, the countries of Southeastern Europe have made great strides. What form should their reform agenda take, and what lessons can the international community draw for helping other postconflict regions? |
IDB America February 2002 Charo Quesada |
Armies for peace A former Spanish defense minister calls for democratization of the military in Latin America... |
National Defense September 2004 Joe Pappalardo |
Unfinished Business in Bosnia The European Union will have a full agenda when it replaces NATO as the head of the peacekeeping mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina, according to senior commanders and diplomats. |
Wired June 2003 Thomas Keenan |
Tent City At its most basic level, humanitarianism calls out for a special kind of space -- a space of neutrality. Relief work challenges borders and governments; it aspires to create and protect a nonpartisan zone in the name of ordinary people. |
Salon.com October 23, 2000 Richard Blow |
Propping up the walls As international support for Kosovar independence wanes, hatred still seethes between Albanians and Serbs. And the U.N. oversees their division... |
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Walczak & Crock |
Colin Powell: On Iraq, Bush, and His Job Those who gloat at the idea of Bush asking other nations to help rebuild Iraq "better not gloat too soon." There will be plenty of contracts for foreign companies "to get a piece of the action." |
National Defense August 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
U.S. Needs Cogent, Forward Looking Strategy The dilemma the nation's civilian and military leadership must grapple with is that a revised and realistic international strategy -- assuming one is found -- probably will cost far more than the nation is willing to invest. |
Parameters Spring 2006 |
Editor's Shelf Book Reviews: An Army at War: Change in the Midst of Conflict edited by John J. McGrath... Historical Perspectives of the Operational Art, edited by Michael D. Krause and R. Cody Phillips... etc. |
National Defense November 2011 Ian Brzezinski |
Lesson From Libya: NATO Alliance Remains Relevant NATO's six-month campaign against Moammar Gadhafi yielded a much-needed success for an alliance fatigued, if not disillusioned, by the war in Afghanistan and financially drained by the debt crisis. |
Parameters Spring 2005 |
Book Reviews Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War....The Moral Warrior: Ethics and Service in the U.S.... etc. |
Salon.com August 7, 2000 Laura Rozen |
Bread instead of soldiers On the front lines of war, humanitarian-aid workers do the work of diplomats -- but some say they should stay away from politics. |
National Defense August 2004 Roxana Tiron |
European Defense Agency Raising Hackles in U.S. The creation of the European Defense Agency is sending ripples across the Atlantic and raising questions about Europe diverting resources away from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
National Defense April 2013 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
10 Reasons to Reform U.S. National Security Policy The U.S. security enterprise must be reformed to bring foreign policy in line with national values, and to enable improved fiscal health at the federal level. |
Fast Company July 2003 Alison Overholt |
Fast Talk: My Hardest Decision Like a career, a company is the result of moves made and of opportunities lost. Five high-profile leaders reflect on their most difficult calls. |
Salon.com October 17, 2002 |
"I'm not sure which planet they live on" Hawks in the Bush administration may be making deadly miscalculations on Iraq, says Gen. Anthony Zinni, Bush's Middle East envoy. |