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by | Mar 3, 2024

In a lengthy and important essay in Foreign Affairs about “detente” with the Soviet Union, historian Niall Ferguson, who is completing the second-volume of his biography of Henry Kissinger, mentions Richard Nixon just once. And the photographs accompanying the article…

by | May 14, 2023

On May 27, God willing, Henry Kissinger will celebrate his 100th birthday. He has known power, riches, and tragedy during his long life. Judging by recent books and articles he has written, Kissinger’s mind still functions at a very high…

by | May 2, 2023

Two articles on the front page of the Washington Times reveal the dichotomy at work in the geopolitics of the western Pacific. Tom Howell Jr. and Jeff Mordock write about Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s seeking concrete security pledges from…

by | Mar 12, 2023

Even as China announced that it is increasing its defense budget by more than 7 percent, renewed its threats against Taiwan, and warned that conflict with the United States is inevitable unless Washington’s policy accommodates China’s demands, the mirage of…

by | Nov 5, 2022

Shannon Tiezzi, editor-in-chief of the Diplomat, assesses German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s recent trip to Beijing in which Scholz was accompanied by 12 CEOs of German companies, including Volkswagen, Merck, and Siemans. Tiezzi writes that the trip indicates that Scholz is returning…

by | Nov 1, 2022

In November 1982, Richard Pipes, on loan from Harvard University to President Ronald Reagan’s National Security Council staff, was putting the finishing touches on what would become National Security Decision Directive 75 (NSDD-75), the strategic blueprint for winning the Cold…

by | Jun 12, 2022

The prolific British historian Niall Ferguson has written a provocative article for Bloomberg in which he recommends that the Biden administration practice detente with China as a means to avoid war over Taiwan. Ferguson, who is busy writing the second…

by | May 30, 2022

In the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis when Soviet ships heading for Cuba stopped short of the U.S. blockade line, Secretary of State Dean Rusk remarked, “We’re eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.” The…

by | Dec 2, 2021

Two professors — one from Yale University and the other from Renmin University of China — urge policymakers in Washington and Beijing to learn the “right lessons” from Cold War history in a new article on the Foreign Affairs website….

by | May 5, 2020

January 29, 1981. It was a mere nine days after President Ronald Reagan’s inauguration as president, and this day would bring his first presidential press conference. Safe to say what Reagan said shocked the assembled media of the day. In…

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