Indonesia Unraveling? The devolution of power in post-Suharto Indonesia has empowered corrupt local authorities and brought long-simmering religious and ethnic tensions to the fore. The country lacks a credible executive and impartial military to quell the violence. In fact, the authorities may be exacerbating the tensions instead of helping resolve them

The Conscience of a Conservative Henry Kissinger's Does America Need a Foreign Policy? warns that Washington could become an overly dogmatic superpower. For the new century he recommends returning to the oldest foreign policy of all: maintaining regional balances of power

Weapons Without Purpose? Under the Bush administration, U.S. nuclear strategy is shifting from deterrence to defense. In the Price of Dominance, Jan Lodahl argues that this is a mistake and explains why multilateral cooperation is crucial for a sensible post-Cold War nuclear strategy