This book offers a persuasive reading of the birth of modern Japan and its struggle to determine its future relations with the world.

Residentscholar Michael Auslin will study U.S.-Asia relations.

The U.S./Korea FTA has triggered a tectonic shift in regional trade relations and in future potential institutional frameworks.

Events in Yugoslavia have reinforced the People's Republic of China'sdetermination to exercise greater leadership against U.S. "hegemony."

For America and its allies, the costs and dangers of failing to make the world safe from North Korea are incalculably higher and more expensive than confronting Kim Jong-il's regime.

The United States should prepare diplomati­cally and militarily for a potential crisis with China.

Colombia has been bogged down in a civil conflict for more than a decade. Foreign powers must try to grasp the essentials of the situation if their assistance is to be effective.