A Tilted Balance
Who Will Rise?

Volume 29, Issue 1

On November 9, 1989 the government of East Berlin announced that it would begin dismantling the Berlin wall, which for 28 years had stood as a concrete symbol of the global divide between eastern and western blocs. Two years later, the Soviet Union officially disbanded and the United States, at least for the moment, appeared to be the lone superpower on the world stage. Indeed, the position of preeminence... (More)

A Tilted Balance
Balance of Power Revisited
Predicting the Next World Order

Unipolar Stability
The Rules of Power Analysis
by William Wohlforth

Terrorist Rivals
Beyond the State-Centric Model
by Louise Richardson

Precipitate Decline
The Advent of Multipolarity
by Immanuel Wallerstein

China's Rise
An Unlikely Pillar of US Hegemony
by Wang Yiwei

Dark Power
Globalization, Inequality, and Conflict
by Charles S. Maier

Righting Wrongs
Affirmative Action in South Africa
by Natasa Kovacevic

A Worthy Ally?
Reconsidering US-Libyan Relations
by Samantha Fang

Over the Hill
Canada's Demographic Challenge
by James Kwok

The New Right
Political Winds in South Korea
by Yuna Han

A Rivalry Revived
Confrontation in the Caucasus
by Owen Barron

Neglect's Costs
Turkish Integration in Germany
by Heather Horn

Dwindling Oasis
Egypt's Water Politics
by Kiran Bhat

The Need to Protect
by Gregory Raymond

The Wrong Problem
by Adrian Guelke

Rebuilding a Nation
Myths, Realities, and Solutions in Iraq
by Feisal Amin Rasoul Al-Istrabadi

The Politics of a Health Crisis
Why AIDS is Not Threatening African Governance
by Alex de Waal

Europe as a Global Player
A Parliamentary Perspective
by Hans-Gert Poettering

Falling Behind HIV
The Need for Prevention
by Kelly Diep

Spinning the Color Wheel
Constitutional Reform in the Ukraine
by Michael Jaskiw

Writing the Rules
The Need for Standardized Regulation of Islamic Finance
by Vikram Modi

Searching for a Solution
Israel in a Time of Terror
by Alan Dershowitz

Rebuilding Justice
by Douglas Rutzen

Proclaiming Sovereignty
by Glenda Sluga

A New Climate Treaty
US Leadership After Kyoto
by Eileen Claussen and Elliot Diringer