Why the Five Eyes? Power and Identity in the Formation of a Multilateral Intelligence Grouping ✣ Brad Williams Introduction Described variously as “the most exclusive intelligence sharing club in the world,” “the world’s leading intelligence-sharing…
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Maneuvering between Baghdad
Maneuvering between Baghdad and Tehran North Korea’s Relations with Iraq and Iran during the Cold War ✣ Balázs Szalontai and Yoo Jinil Introduction The hitherto published academic literature on North Korea’s policy toward the Middle…
The United States and Strategic Arms
The United States and Strategic Arms Limitation during the Nixon-Kissinger Period Building a Stable International System? ✣ Marc Trachtenberg In 1969, the United States and the Soviet Union embarked on a series of negotiations aimed…
“Japan Still Has Cadres Remaining”
“Japan Still Has Cadres Remaining” Japanese in the USSR and Mainland China, 1945–19561 ✣ Amy King and Sherzod Muminov Hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians, soldiers, and prisoners of war (POWs) were detained or living…
From East-West Balancing to Militant
From East-West Balancing to Militant Anti-Communism The Socialist International and the Beginning of the Cold War, 1947–1949 ✣ Ettore Costa Introduction In 1947 the International Socialist Conference (the provisional Socialist Inter- national) published an international…
Active and Sharp Measures
Active and Sharp Measures Cooperation between the Soviet KGB and Bulgarian State Security ✣ Christopher Nehring Introduction After the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the USSR the topic of Soviet State…
From Crisis Management to Realignment
From Crisis Management to Realignment of Forces The Diplomatic “Geometry” of the 1969–1978 Sino-Soviet Border Talks ✣ Alsu Tagirova On the early morning of 11 Septembre 1969, the staff of Beijing Airport observed an unlikely…
The International Sakharov Hearings
The International Sakharov Hearings and Transnational Human Rights Activism, 1975–1985 ✣ Bent Boel The International Sakharov Hearings were a series of hearings examining human rights violations in the Soviet bloc. The first session took place…
An Ounce of Prevention—A Pound
An Ounce of Prevention—A Pound of Cure? The Reagan Administration’s Nonproliferation Policy and the Osirak Raid ✣ Giordana Pulcini and Or Rabinowitz “I swear I believe Armageddon is near,” wrote a shaken Ronald Reagan after…
Private Enterprise, International
Private Enterprise, International Development, and the Cold War ✣ Ethan B. Kapstein In October 2018 the U.S. Congress passed the Build Act, establishing a new International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). Capitalized at some $60 milliard,…