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The Delusion of Impartial Intervention
  • R. Betts
  • Political Science
  • 1 November 1994
Physicians have a motto that peacemakers would do well to adopt: "First, do no harm." Neither the United States nor the United Nations have quite grasped this. Since the end of the Cold War unleashed…
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Surprise Attack: Lessons for Defense Planning
Long before Germany's blitzkrieg swept the West, European leaders had received many signals of its imminence. Stalin, too, had abundant warning of German designs on Russia but believed that by…
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Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security
Preface 1. Twenty-first-Century Intelligence: New Enemies and Old 2. Permanent Enemies: Why Intelligence Failures Are Inevitable 3. Theory Traps: Expertise as an Enemy 4. Incorruptibility or…
Is Strategy an Illusion?
  • R. Betts
  • Political Science
    International Security
  • 1 October 2000
Strategy is the essential ingredient for making war either politically effective or morally tenable. It is the link between military means and political ends, the scheme for how to make one produce…
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Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance
In numerous crises after World War II--Berlin, Korea, the Taiwan Straits, and the Middle East--the United States resorted to vague threats to use nuclear weapons in order to deter Soviet or Chinese…
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Two Faces of Intelligence Failure: September 11 and Iraq's Missing WMD
  • R. Betts
  • Political Science
  • 1 December 2007
Al Qaeda's surprise attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were the U.S.'s second Pearl Harbor. The shocks jolted Americans out of the complacency about national security that they had…
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Wealth, Power, and Instability: East Asia and the United States after the Cold War
  • R. Betts
  • Political Science
  • 24 January 1993
I E a s t Asia is becoming a more important interest to the United States at the same time that it is becoming less stable as an arena of great power interaction.’ This is a bad combination,…
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Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on Causes of War and Peace
*selections new to this edition Part I. Introduction: Three Visions of War and Peace Francis Fukuyama, "The End of History?" John J. Mearsheimer, "Why We Will Soon Miss the Cold War" Samuel P.…
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The Irony of Vietnam: The System Worked
Few analysts of U.S. involvement in Vietnam would agree with the provocative conclusion of this book. The thesis of most postmortems is that the United States lost the war because of the failure of…
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A Nuclear Iran: Promoting Stability or Courting Disaster?
ON 8 FEBRUARY 2007, at the Kellogg Conference Center at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), the Journal of International Affairs and the Middle East Institute…
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