Recently added articles from Policy Review:
Security and data sharing.(Company overview)
Apr 01, 2009; ... THE TERRORIST ATTACKS of September 11, 2001, mark the beginning of a new era in transatlantic cooperation to combat terrorism. As EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana put it, this cooperation has been "one of the unsung transatlantic success stories," ...
The Alliance That Held.
Apr 01, 2009; ... ANDREW ROBERTS. Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West. ALLEN LANE. 672 PAGES. [pounds sterling]25 WINSTON CHURCHILL was not the easiest of bosses to work for, as the memoirs and reminiscences of those who were close to ...
The forgotten entitlements.
Feb 01, 2009; ... WHEN POLITICIANS AND policy wonks use the phrase "the looming entitlement crisis," most listeners know exactly what that means: Social Security and Medicare. Spending on these programs is rampant, nearly $1 trillion in fiscal 2006, and is projected to grow exponentially over the coming ...
Wrong turn on school reform.
Feb 01, 2009; ... IN THE RUN-UP to the 2000 presidential election, candidate George W. Bush and his advisors made a strategic decision to appropriate educational rhetoric generally associated with Democrats and the left. This decision helped Bush present himself as "different kind of Republican" and a ...
Lessons Learned in Iraq.(Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2009; ... JOHN AGRESTO. Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions. ENCOUNTER.300 PAGES. $25.95 JOHN AGRESTO'S Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions is dedicated to Jim Mollen, a State Department official advising ...
The Moses of Cairo.(Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2009; ... JOEL L. KRAEMER. Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds. DOUBLEDAY. 622 PAGES. $35.00 HENRY JAMES SAID, "The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself." Moses Maimonides crafted in his ...
The Brutal Pacific Theater.(Retribution)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2009; ... MAX HASTINGS. Retribution. KNOPF. 656 PAGES. $35.00 ONE OF THE most trenchant memoirs of World War II is Quartered Safe Out Here, written by George MacDonald Fraser, author of the Flashman novels. As a young corporal, Fraser found himself in as great a pickle as Flash ever was, ...
The 2008 Democratic shift.
Dec 01, 2008; ... AFTER THE 2004 presidential election, Republicans appeared to be in good shape. They had won the presidency, had a 30-seat margin in the House of Representatives and 55 U.S. Senators. Four years later, the situation is very different. Republicans lost 31 House seats, six Senate seats, and ...
"Torture" in the dock.
Dec 01, 2008; ... --SCENE I: Frankfurt, Germany, I October 2002, early morning IN THE FRANKFURT police headquarters, the atmosphere is tense. Deputy Police Chief Wolfgang Daschner is losing patience. On the previous day, his officers arrested one Magnus Gafgen, a 27-year-old law student. Gafgen ...
The European left and ours.
Dec 01, 2008; ... THE ELECTION OF Barack Obama as president of the United States marks a dramatic victory for the progressive left in America and a resounding repudiation of George. W. Bush's presidency and the Republican-controlled Congress with which he governed for six years. Obama's election also ...
eWMDs.
Dec 01, 2008; ... THE INTERNET HAS enabled the bountiful benefits of eCommerce, and the incorporation of eCommerce into our economies has, in turn, created a dependence on the Internet, similar to our dependence on water, electric, and telephone utilities. Unlike other utilities, however, communication ...
Trafficking and human dignity.
Dec 01, 2008; ... HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS the slavery of our time. Exactly 200 years ago, Britain and the United States formally outlawed the transatlantic slave trade. A few decades later the practice of slavery was expunged from North American (with a heavy dose of justice enforced by the British Navy and of ...
Fixing fragile states.
Dec 01, 2008; ... FRAGILE STATES HAVE marched from the fringe to the very center of U.S. security concerns. Whereas once defense analysts worried only about competing powers such as the Soviet Union and China, now even the weakest of countries is considered a potential threat. "The events of September 11, ...
Thinking About Terror And Law.
Dec 01, 2008 ... PHILIP BOBBITT. Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century. KNOPF. 688 PAGES. $35.00 IT WOULD BE hard to think of a more barbaric enemy than the Islamists: fanatics flying into office buildings, blowing themselves up in crowded market places, torturing their ...
Progressive Dreams.
Dec 01, 2008 ... PORTER SHREVE. When the White House Was Ours. MARINER. 288 PAGES. $I2.95 PORTER SHREVE'S When the White House Was Ours is perfect in its mediocrity: an exemplary formal specimen of the didactic social; novel, and a work of fiction completely blind to its own larger ...
Incentives Aren't Everything.
Dec 01, 2008 ... JOSEPH V. KENNEDY, Ending Poverty. ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD. 288 PAGES. $39.95 RECALL THE GOP'S "Contract with America," issued several months before the 1994 midterm elections: It delineated specific legislative actions congressional Republications would undertake in the first day ...
Leviathan then and now.
Oct 01, 2008; ... UNTIL RELATIVELY RECENTLY, students of politics and ideas generally regarded Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (16 51) as the outstanding work of political philosophy in the English language. Over the past several decades, however, professors of political science and philosophy have largely ...
The futility of class warfare.
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE "RACE CARD" was once an effective ploy in electoral politics. Southern Democrats long used it to rally white voters. In the wake of the civil rights movement, the Republicans took possession of the race card. Nixon used it to strike fear in the minds of white voters, helping to ...
The need for missile defense.
Oct 01, 2008; ... DESPITE IRAN'S RUNAWAY nuclear program, North Korea's atomic assistance to Syria, and robust ballistic missile production and testing by Russia and China, a missile defense system for protecting the homeland and U.S. interests overseas remains a controversial idea in some corners. It ...
How the Soviet system cracked.
Oct 01, 2008; ... THE SOVIET FLAG was lowered from atop the Kremlin on December 25, 1991. It is doubtful this event will ever be memorialized in Russia, whose current prime minister characterizes it as the "greatest political disaster of the twentieth century." The political end of the USSR was the final ...