Volume V, No. 2
Spring 2000

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		Special Feature! Collective Security: Posse or Global Cop Veteran diplomats explore the implications of America's expanding role in global security and international peacekeeping, at the Simmons Cenntennial "Warburg 2000" Conference in Boston.   The U.S. and Global Security at the Turn of the Century: Background to the Conference (Conference Introduction)    by Eric Jensen Collective Security, Posse or Global Cop? (Keynote Address)    by Sir Kieran Prendergast Europe in the Twenty-first Century    by Elizabeth Pond The US in the Asian-Pacific: A View from the Bottom of the Globe    by Denis McLean African Crises: A Continent in Continuing Trouble    by Frank Crigler (Note: Conference presentations by Harry Barnes, Monteagle Stearns, and Robert White appear in the Summer 2000 issue of this journal. ~Ed.) Other Current Articles: A Two-part Presentation on Indonesia From Repression to Reform? Indonesian Politics and the Military, 1997-1999    by Ronald D. Palmer Confronting the Political and Economic Crisis Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, February 16, 2000    by Theodore Friend From the Editor . . . Two If by Sea    by Henry Mattox Commentary on Current Issues: We devote our Commentary department in this issue to what we believe is the major foreign policy question facing the United States at the dawn of the new century: The Conduct of American Diplomacy    by William C. Harrop Life in the Foreign Service: Secretary of State Kissinger and CSCE Negotiations: A Personal View    by Charles G. Stefan On Lester (“Mike”) Pearson of Canada    by William N. Dale Moral Hazards – A Short Story Foreign Service fiction    by Patricia Linderman News & Important Announcements: Embassy and Diplomatic Scholars Internship Program: A Unique Approach to Education in International Relations    by Eugene Schmiel U.S. Department of State Releases Foreign Relations Volume on Arab-Israeli Dispute Letters: Presidential Military Service More on Men of the ASTP Reviews of Books & Sites: Uncle Sam: Supreme Guardian of the Saudi Crown By HERMANN FR. EILTS Saudi Arabia and the United States: Birth of a Security Partnership By Parker T. Hart. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. 283. $35 cloth.) The Arabists: WASP Missionaries to Arabia By MICHAEL KOLODNER The Arabists: The Romance of an American Elite By Robert D. Kaplan (New York: The Free Press, 1993. Pp. 333; 1995 reprint, $2.99 paper available at www.bookcloseouts.com.) The Great Game: A Duel of Intriguing Imperialists By MICHAEL COTTER Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire In Central Asia. By Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac (Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1999. Pp. xxv, 573. $35 cloth.) Called to Serve: The Life of an American Envoy By KENNETH P. VICKERY Safirka: An American Envoy By Peter Bridges (Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 227 $24 cloth.)  The American Metternich Remembers Realpolitik By VICTOR FIC Years of Renewal By Henry A. Kissinger (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Pp. 1,119. $35 cloth.) VENONA: The Cold War's "Smoking Gun"    by Rorin M. Platt VENONA: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America By John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999. Pp. xiii, 487. $30 cloth.)