Grand strategic assessments focusing only on the narrow constituents of realism – material power, changes in its distribution, and external threat – are radically incomplete and do not account for what nations actually do. Grand strategy is public policy and reflects a nation's mechanisms...

Some authors contend that interdependence is low or declining, others that interdependence is high or increasing. The present essay, offering new data on trade, investment, financial, and political sectors, seeks to draw a trial balance between such views and to show that: (1) some significant...

In 1997-98 Thailand, Korea, and Indonesia were attacked by international financial interests convinced that the countries were not running their economies properly. The trio had borrowed heavily in hard currency, and were unable to repay their debts, at least in the short term. Money flowed out...

Since the inception of the Middle East Peace Process in 1991, arms control and regional security issues have been one of the most difficult areas to address. The establishment and functioning of the official multilateral Arms Control and Regional Security (ACRS) Working Group in the multilateral...

Brian Healy and Arthur Stein reached five conclusions about the applicability of international theory to the decade of the 1870s in their essay that was published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1973. We offer data from the 1880s (as well as the 1870s) that extend and modify their work:...