Academy and Policy
Do Ideas Matter?

Volume 28, Issue 2

US President John F. Kennedy was deeply influenced by historian Barbara Tuchman’s The Guns of August and applied its lessons about World War I to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Did reading academic work help Kennedy forge a cautious policy that avoided nuclear war? Today, policymakers around the world champion democratization, believing that democracies do not go to war with each other. But are they aware of the scholarship of... (More)
Academy and Policy
Features
On Deaf Ears?
Toward Better Informed Policy

The Will to Prevent
Global Challenges of Nuclear Proliferation
by Graham Allison

Dogmatic Dangers
When Policymaking Rigidifies Ideas
by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Practicing Theory
Management in HIV intervention
by Aparajita Ramakrishnan and Ashok Alexander

In Need of Nuance
What the Academy Can Teach
by Michael Barnett

Access to Power
Research in International Policymaking
by John Willinsky

Bridging the Divide
When Policy Profits from Research
by Lawrence Summers

The Rights Idea
Knowledge, Human Rights, and Change
by Irene Khan

Global Notebook
Mineral Wealth
The Cry from the DRC
by Anthony Carlson

Vague Targets
The Case of Aid in South Africa
by Travis May

Koizumi's Move
Change Uncertain in Japan
by Taro Tsuda

Axis of Evo
Bolivia's Model of Leftism
by Eric Fish

Clean Slate?
Mayan Troubles in Guatemala
by Huilin Wang

Falling Sick
Britain's National Health Service
by Joseph Luna

Ports and Politics
Sinking US-UAE Relations
by Omar Abdelsamad

Correspondence
The Framers' War-Making Powers
by Michael Ramsey

The War on Terror
by Mina Nguyen

Perspectives
More than Ideology
The Conflation of Populism with the Left in Latin America
by Fernando Henrique Cardoso

The Fire Again?
Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf
by John K. Cooley

Rethinking Latin America
A New Approach in US Foreign Policy
by Myles Frechette

World in Review
Join the Club
Japan's Security Council Bid
by Emily Bruemmer

Problems of Enforcement
Iran, North Korea, and the NPT
by Julia Choe

Confronting Cairo
Changing an Illusory Democracy
by Eric Lee

Interviews
The Future of US Civil Society
Civic Engagement after September 11
by Robert Putnam

Review Essays
Trade and Justice
Marc A. Miles reviews Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development
by Marc A. Miles

Torture in the War on Terror
Kenneth Roth reviews Protecting Liberty in an Age of Terror
by Kenneth Roth

Endpaper
Misunderstood
Political Islam in Southeast Asia
by Michael Mullany