Publications

Has Western Europe entered a period of political decadence such that it cannot even police its own neighborhood? The question…

In the just-war tradition, the use of proportionate and discriminate military force derives its moral legitimacy from its capacity to…

During the martial-law period in Poland in the early 1980s, Poles used to say that there were two solutions to…

In Latin America, again this year, the desire for regional dialogue has remained strong. The year 1992 was an important…

“The discussion of ethics or morality in our relations with other states is a prolific cause of confusion,” former Secretary of State Dean Acheson once asserted. The distinguished contributors to this volume—Alberto R. Coll, James Finn, Richard D. Land, Luis E. Lugo, George Weigel, and Nicholas Wolterstorff—do not deny such confusion. But they argue that moral issues are simply unavoidable in the making of foreign-policy choices. The often-heated “morality and foreign policy” debate can best illuminate the quandaries faced by policy-makers through a recovery of the classic tradition of “prudence.” This tradition encourages statecraft that is, in Coll’s words, neither “politically impractical nor morally bankrupt.”

Those who think that Americans are permitted a certain indifference to passions and politics beyond the water’s edge might have…

In his revised 1987 study The Age of Terrorism, Walter Laqueur of the Center for Strategic and International Studies identified…

While terrorism has been a major problem in Latin America and a serious problem in western Europe, analysts of terrorism…

Nor is the Mediterranean region exempt from strong tensions causing violence and death. I am thinking of the grave events…

But it is nearer to us. Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, that war is exercising its ruthless brutality. Obviously I…

The other great trial affecting the life of peoples and hindering their development is poverty, both material and moral. Never…

Basically all problems of justice have as their main cause the fact that the person is not sufficiently respected, taken…