Editor: Henry E. Mattox, PhD Publisher: T. Frank Crigler

Chapel Hill, NC 4 December 1996

Editorial Advisory Board & Technical Staff

CONTENTS
Volume I, No. 2

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From the Editor Launching a Journal: The Editor's Gratitude In This Issue: Some Serious Stuff

Current Articles Article Summaries Democratization, Failed states, and Peace Operations: THE CHALLENGE OF UNGOVERNABILITY by Robert H. Dorff

Political scientist Dorff discusses the ideas of nations' ungovernability and "failed states" and their effect on peace operations.

• Jimmy Carter and SALT II: THE PATH TO FRUSTRATION

  by Matthew M. Oyos

  Historian Matt Oyos analyzes President Carter's unsuccessful efforts to end the nuclear arms race.

• Public Opinion on Human Rights in American Foreign Policy (Part II)
  

  by Ole R. Holsti

  The concluding portion of Professor Holsti's analysis of the link between public opinion and foreign policy.

  
  
  

• Ronald D.F. Palmer on Southeast Asia in 1996

• Carl Fritz on wartime service in Vietnam
• Francis Underhill on learning French (with a few tears)

• Stuart Kennedy on the Foreign Affairs Oral History program

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  NOTES: The opinions expressed by the authors published in this Journal are not necessarily those of members of the Editorial Advisory Board or of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies. ©All articles and other original materials are property of American Diplomacy unless otherwise indicated.