FOREIGN POLICY STUDIES
Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President for Defense & Foreign Policy Studies
Gary Dempsey, Foreign Policy Analyst
FOREIGN POLICY STUDIES
Ted Galen Carpenter, Vice President
for Defense & Foreign Policy Studies
Gary Dempsey, Foreign Policy Analyst
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NATO Enlargement: Illusions and Reality |
Cato’s foreign policy vision is guided by the wisdom expressed in Thomas Jefferson’s credo: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none." Accordingly, Cato’s foreign policy work supports the concepts of a national defense based on strategic independence and diplomacy based on prudent nonintervention. Under the direction of Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato’s foreign policy work is currently devoted to four major issue areas: (1) conflicts in the Balkans; (2) U.S. participation in United Nations peacekeeping and nation-building missions; (3) the future of NATO, the alliances with Japan and South Korea, and other U.S. security committments; and (4) relations with Russia, China, and other major powers. NATO's Empty Victory, by Ted Galen Carpenter. The United States and other NATO members loudly proclaimed that the alliance achieved a great victory in their 1999 air war against Yugoslavia. Such claims already ring hollow. NATO may have thwarted the Belgrade government's goal of cleansing Kosovo of its ethnic Albanian inhabitants, but the Kosovo Liberation Army has subsequently pursued an equally systematic strategy to cleanse the province of Serbs, Gypsies, and all other non-Albanians. It is also increasingly apparent that the alliance's ostensible goal of a tolerant, democratic, and multiethnic Kosovo is proving illusory, and the United States now faces another interminable and futile nation-building mission in the Balkans. NATO Enlargement: Illusions and Reality, edited by Ted Galen Carpenter and Barbara Conry. In this book, 18 authors contribute chapters that examine in detail the hazards involved with expanding the Atlantic alliance. Major sections of the book describe "Problems of Cost and Credibility," "NATO Enlargement and Russia's Relations with theWest," "Creating a New Division of Europe," and "Alternatives to an Enlarged NATO." Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World, a Cato Institute book by Cato senior Fellow Doug Bandow. This book argues that it is time to phase out the American military commitment to South Korea, which has twice the population of North Korea and an economy 18 times as large as that of the North. That step, the book concludes, would free the United States of an obsolete obligation and give South Korea responsibility for its own security. Delusions of Grandeur, edited by Cato’s vice president for foreign policy and defense studies, Ted Galen Carpenter. This Cato Institute book features the papers delivered at Cato’s 1996 conference, "The United Nations and Global Intervention." Contributions include chapters by Robert Oakley, former U.S. ambassador to Somalia, and John Bolton, former assistant secretary of state for international organizations. Recent Foreign Policy Studies Projects
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"Dubious Anniversary: Kosovo One Year Later," Christopher Layne and Benjamin Schwarz, Cato Policy Analysis, June 10, 2000.
"Faulty Justifications and Ominous Prospects: NATO’s 'Victory' in Kosovo," by Christopher Layne, Cato Policy Analysis, October 25, 1999.
"Blunder in the Balkans: The Clinton Administration's Bungled War against Serbia," by Christopher Layne, Cato Policy Analysis, May 20, 1999.
"U.S. Assistance for Market Reforms: Foreign Aid Failures in Russia and the Former Soviet Bloc," by Janine R. Wedel, Cato Policy Analysis, March 22, 1999.
"Rethinking the Dayton Agreement: Bosnia Three Years Later," by Gary T. Dempsey, Cato Policy Analysis, December 14, 1998.
"Washington's Kosovo Policy: Consequences and Contradictions," by Gary T. Dempsey, Cato Policy Analysis, October 8, 1998.
"Flawed Democracies: The Dubious Credentials of NATO's Proposed New Members," by Thomas M. Magstadt, Cato Policy Analysis, March 6, 1998.
"NATO Expansion Flashpoint No. 3: Kaliningrad," by Stanley Kober, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, February 11, 1998.
"NATO Expansion Flashpoint No. 2: The Border between Hungary and Serbia," by Ted Galen Carpenter and Pavel Kislitsyn, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, November 24, 1997.
"NATO Expansion Flashpoint No. 1: The Border between Poland and Belarus," by Ted Galen Carpenter and Andrew Stone, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, September 16, 1997.
"The Domino Theory Reborn: Clinton's Bosnia Intervention and the "Wider War" Thesis," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, August 15, 1996.
"The Nunn-Lugar Act: A Wasteful and Dangerous Illusion," by Richard Kelley, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, March 18, 1996.
"NATO Expansion and the Danger of a Second Cold War," by Stanley Kober, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, January 31, 1996.
"Holbrooke Horror: The U.S. Peace Plan For Bosnia," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, October 27, 1995.
"The United States and Future Bosnias," by Jonathan G. Clarke, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, August 8, 1995.
"Killing with Kindness: The UN Peacekeeping Mission In Bosnia," by John F. Hillen III, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, June 30, 1995.
"Constitutional Problems with Enforcing the Biological Weapons Convention," by Ronald D. Rotunda, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, September 28, 2000.
"Averting a "New Kosovo" in Indonesia: Opportunities and Pitfalls for the United States," by Leon T. Hadar, Cato Policy Analysis, March 9, 2000.
"East Timor and the “Slippery Slope” Problem," by Leon T. Hadar, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, December 20, 1999.
"Old Wine in New Bottles: The Pentagon's East Asia Security Strategy Report," by Doug Bandow, Cato Policy Analysis, May 18, 1999.
"Let Taiwan Defend Itself," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Policy Analysis, August 24, 1998.
"Free Rider: South Korea's Dual Dependence on America," by Doug Bandow, Cato Policy Analysis, May 19, 1998.
"Smoke and Mirrors: The Clinton-Hashimoto Summit," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, May 16, 1996.
"The Sweet-and-Sour Sino-American Relationship," by Leon T. Hadar, Cato Policy Analysis, January 23, 1996.
"Paternalism and Dependence: The U.S.-Japanese Security Relationship," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Policy Analysis, November 1, 1995.
"India as a World Power: Changing Washington's Myopic Policy," by Victor M. Gobarev, Cato Policy Analysis, September 11 , 2000.
"Imperial Overreach: Washington’s Dubious Strategy to Overthrow Saddam Hussein," by David Isenberg, Cato Policy Analysis, November 17, 1999.
"Time Bomb: The Escalation of U.S. Security Commitments in the Persian Gulf Region," by Barbara Conry, Cato Policy Analysis, August 29, 1996.
"Reasonable Doubt: The Case against the Proposed International Criminal Court," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Policy Analysis, July 16, 1998.
"The United Nations Debt: Who Owes Whom?," by Cliff Kincaid, Cato Policy Analysis, April 23, 1998.
"Constitutional Problems with Enforcing the Biological Weapons Convention," by Ronald D. Rotunda, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, September 28, 2000.
""Isolationism" as the Denial of Intervention: What Foreign Policy Is and Isn’t," by Earl C. Ravenal, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, April 27, 2000.
"Green Wars: Making Environmental Degradation a National Security Issue Puts Peace and Security at Risk ," by Paul Benjamin, Cato Policy Analysis, April 20, 2000.
"Corporate Welfare for Weapons Makers: The Hidden Costs of Spending on Defense and Foreign Aid," by William D. Hartung, Cato Policy Analysis, August 12, 1999.
"Special Operations Military Training Abroad and Its Dangers," by John Rudy and Ivan Eland, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, June 22, 1999.
"Is Readiness Overrated? Implications for a Tiered Readiness Force Structure," by James L. George, Cato Policy Analysis, April 29, 1999.
"National Missile Defense: Examining the Options," by Charles V. Peña and Barbara Conry, Cato Policy Analysis, March 16, 1999.
"Hard Choices: Fighter Procurement in the Next Century," by Williamson Murray, Cato Policy Analysis, February 26, 1999.
"Ballistic Missile Proliferation: Does the Clinton Administration Understand the Threat?," by Timothy M. Beard and Ivan Eland, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, February 11, 1999.
"Tilting at Windmills: Post-Cold War Military Threats to U.S. Security," by Ivan Eland, Cato Policy Analysis, February 8, 1999.
"The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: The Costs Outweigh the Benefits," by Kathleen C. Bailey, Cato Policy Analysis, January 15, 1999.
"Does U.S. Intervention Overseas Breed Terrorism? The Historical Record," by Ivan Eland, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, December 17, 1998.
"The Quadrennial Defense Review: Reiterating the Tired Status Quo," by David Isenberg, Cato Policy Analysis, September 17, 1998.
"Theater Missile Defense: A Limited Capability Is Needed," by Charles V. Peña, Cato Policy Analysis, June 22, 1998.
"Protecting the Homeland: The Best Defense is to Give No Offense," by Ivan Eland, Cato Policy Analysis, May 5, 1998.
"Subtract Unneeded Nuclear Attack Submarines from the Fleet," by Ivan Eland, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, April 2, 1998.
"Instinct for the Capillary: The Clinton Administration’s Foreign Policy ‘Successes,'" by Jonathan G. Clarke, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, April 5, 1996.
"Changing the Way We Do Business in International Relations, by Charles Schmitz, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, November 8, 1995.
"The Misleading Military 'Readiness
Crisis,'" by David Isenberg, Cato Foreign Policy Briefing, July
25, 1995.
"Yugoslavia's Moment of Truth," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, September 23, 2000.
"Military Readiness and Korean Commitments," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, August 31, 2000.
"Appeasing China, Humiliating Ourselves," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Daily Commentary, August 15, 2000.
"Forgotten War in a Forgotten Country," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, August 12, 2000.
"A European Garrison for Kosovo?," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, August 11, 2000.
"Are Republicans Locked in a Cold War Mindset?," by Leon Hadar, Cato Daily Commentary, August 7, 2000.
"Cycle of Unease in Okinawa," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, August 1, 2000.
""Localizing" The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," by Leon Hadar, Cato Daily Commentary, July 25, 2000.
"The End of U.N. Peacekeeping," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, June 12, 2000.
"Leave Korea to the Koreans," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, May 27, 2000.
"International Silent Treatment," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, May 25, 2000.
"China: Constructive Partner or Emerging Threat?," by Ted Galen Carpenter and James A. Dorn, Cato Daily Commentary, May 10, 2000.
" Doing the Right Thing by Not Meddling in Indonesia's Civil Unrest," by Leon Hadar, Cato Daily Commentary, March 29, 2000.
"Balkans Anniversary: Little to Celebrate," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, March 25, 2000.
"Keeping Peace in the Taiwan Strait," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, March 24, 2000.
"U.S. Must Stop Being a KLA Pawn," by Christopher Layne, Cato Daily Commentary, March 16, 2000.
"Visiting the Killing Fields," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, March 15, 2000.
"NATO's Disastrous Victory in Kosovo," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, March 10, 2000.
"Mafia Capitalism or Red Legacy in Russia?," by Aaron Lukas and Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, March 4, 2000.
"Going to War for Taiwan?," by Doug Bandow and Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Daily Commentary, March 2, 2000.
"Belfast in the Balkans," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, February 18, 2000.
"Time for "Constructive Disengagement" from the Middle East," by Leon T. Hadar , Cato Daily Commentary, February 7, 2000.
"Who Should Pay for Peace?," by Doug Bandow , Cato Daily Commentary, February 4, 2000.
"The Real Kosovo," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, November 20, 1999.
"Washington's Turkish Blinders," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Daily Commentary, November 16, 1999.
"Rethinking the North Korean Threat," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, August 27, 1999.
"Theater of the Absurd in Kosovo," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, August 21, 1999.
"Washington's Incoherent Policy On Taiwan," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Daily Commentary, August 4, 1999.
"NATO’s Balkan Disaster: A Year Later," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, June 14, 1999.
"Clinton’s Kosovo 'Victory,'" by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, June 11, 1999.
"Destroying Serbia in Order to Save It," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, June 8, 1999.
"Chinese Nuclear Espionage: Is the Hysteria Warranted?," by Ivan Eland, Cato Daily Commentary, June 3, 1999.
"Washington’s Skirting Responsibility," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, June 2, 1999.
"Freeing Okinawa," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, May 31, 1999.
"Is Military Readiness Overrated?," by James L. George, Cato Daily Commentary, May 27, 1999.
"Kosovo is America’s War, America’s Pain," by Jonathan Clarke, Cato Daily Commentary, May 25, 1999.
"End Bill Clinton’s War," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, May 18, 1999.
"The War Against Serbia: Illusion Versus Reality," by Ivan Eland, Cato Daily Commentary, May 3, 1999.
"Kosovo Intervention Highlights European Free Riding," by Ivan Eland , Cato Daily Commentary, April 28, 1999.
"What’s NATO to Do?," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, April 20, 1999.
"The Credibility Controversy," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, April 20, 1999.
"Reinforcing Failure," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, April 13, 1999.
"Give Kosovars a Permanent Refuge," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Daily Commentary, April 9, 1999.
"Normalize Trade with China," by James A. Dorn, Cato Daily Commentary, April 9, 1999.
"Missile Defenses and East Asian Security," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Daily Commentary, April 7, 1999.
"Overkill from the Air," by Ivan Eland, Cato Daily Commentary, April 5, 1999.
"Admitting When We’re Wrong," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, April 3, 1999.
"Europe’s Welfare Queens," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, March 30, 1999.
"Bill Clinton, Aggressor," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Daily Commentary, March 23, 1999.
"Imposing Perverted Democracy in Bosnia," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Daily Commentary, March 12, 1999.
"Picture Perfect Peacekeeping in Kosovo?," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, March 5, 1999.
"Clinton’s Dishonest Allegations of 'Isolationism,'" by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Daily Commentary, March 4, 1999.
"Is a continued stay of U.S. troops in Bosnia the national interest?," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, March 2, 1999.
"The United States as Global Cop: Arresting Consequences," by Ivan Eland, Cato Daily Commentary, February 26, 1999.
"A Foreign Policy for Terrorists," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, February 20, 1999.
"Hurtling into the Kosovo Quagmire," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, February 19, 1999.
"Clinton’s Kosovo Quagmire," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, February 11, 1999.
"U.S. Benefits if Britain is Wholeheartedly European," by Jonathan Clarke, Cato Daily Commentary, January 13, 1999.
"Holiday Cheer at the Pentagon," by Ivan Eland, Cato Daily Commentary, January 8, 1999.
"America’s Forgotten War," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, December 21, 1998.
"A Military Budget for a Republic," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, December 17, 1998.
"Pinochet’s Lessons," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, December 11, 1998.
"Bosnia Mission Weakens U.S. Military," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, December 8, 1998.
"A Better Strategy for Burma," by Aaron Lukas, Cato Daily Commentary, November 9, 1998.
"Professionalizing the PLA," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, October 29, 1998.
"Kosovo Consequences," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, October 5, 1998.
"The U.S. Government is Endangering American Citizens," by Ivan Eland, Cato Daily Commentary, September 25 1998.
"Hike Military Funding? Lining the Pockets of the Defense Bureaucracy," by Ivan Eland, Cato Daily Commentary, September 23, 1998.
"Bungling Democracy in Bosnia," by Gary Dempsey and Aaron Lukas, Cato Daily Commentary, September 22, 1998.
"The Cost of Confusion in our Foreign Policy," by Jonathan Clarke, Cato Daily Commentary, September 17, 1998.
"Terrorism: Cohen’s Terrifying Trade-Off," by Ivan Eland, Cato Daily Commentary, September 2, 1998.
"Oil is no Reason to Stay in the Persian Gulf," by by Jerry Taylor, Cato Daily Commentary, August 27, 1998.
"Betrayal of Principle," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Daily Commentary, August 24, 1998.
"Courting of Disaster," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, August 19, 1998.
"An Accomplice to War in Kosovo," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, August 5, 1998.
"Another Balkan Blunder?," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, July 29, 1998.
"The U.S. Military: Overextended Overseas," by Ivan Eland, Cato Daily Commentary, July 24, 1998.
"Catastrophic Terrorism: Clinton is Missing the Point," by Ivan Eland, Cato Daily Commentary, July 13, 1998.
"Finishing off Serbia," by Gary Dempsey and Jeffrey Brown, Cato Daily Commentary, July 7, 1998.
"Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia: Coping with the Inevitable," by Ivan Eland, Cato Daily Commentary, July 2, 1998.
"Will the Sun Ever Set on Protectionism?," by Aaron Lukas, Cato Daily Commentary, June 22, 1998.
"Washington’s Nonproliferation Hysteria," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Daily Commentary, June 18, 1998.
"The United Nations Debt: Who Owes Whom?," by Cliff Kincaid, Cato Daily Commentary, June 15, 1998.
"Adjusting to Iraq—and Reality," by Ivan Eland, Cato Daily Commentary, June 12, 1998.
"Haunting Memorial to Peace," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, May 18, 1998.
"Marxist Dreams and Soviet Realities," by Ralph Raico, Cato Daily Commentary, May 1, 1998.
"Too Quickly Forgotten: Communism’s Corpses," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, April 27, 1998.
"Asylum Crackdown Threatens Lives and Ideals," by Michele Pistone, Cato Daily Commentary, April 8, 1998.
"No to NATO Expansion: Good Arguments Fall on Deaf Ears," by Ivan Eland, Cato Daily Commentary, April 3, 1998.
"Creating a Cold Peace by Expanding NATO," by Gary Hart and Gordon Humphrey, Cato Daily Commentary, March 20, 1998.
"NATO Expansion: Folly on Stilts," by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Daily Commentary, March 13, 1998.
"What’s Ahead for NATO?," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, March 11, 1998.
"Proposed new NATO Members Are 'Unfinished Democracies,'" Cato Daily Commentary, March 6, 1998.
"Getting Out of the Box," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, February 25, 1998.
"The Best Defense Is No Offense," by Ivan Eland, Cato Daily Commentary, February 19, 1998.
"The High-Handed High Representative," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, February 17, 1998.
"Taking Sides and Taking Chances in Bosnia," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, February 12, 1998.
"No One Benefits From U.S. Presence in Japan," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, February 9, 1998.
"Rebuilding Socialism in Bosnia?," by Gary Dempsey, Cato Daily Commentary, February 6, 1998.
"The Costs of NATO Expansion," by Ivan Eland, Cato Daily Commentary, February 3, 1998.
"Kosovo Tempts the Meddlesome to Incite Another Ethnic War," by Jonathan Clarke, Cato Daily Commentary, January 9, 1998.
"Cold War is Over, So Trim the Military," by Doug Bandow, Cato Daily Commentary, January 6, 1998.
