Strobe Talbott's new book reviewsa history of international relations, foreign policy in the Clinton administration, and the failures of American foreign policy under George W. Bush.
Fidel Castro was the first leader to confront Washington and live to tell the tale, but he has recently resigned from office, leaving the fate of Cuba in the hands of his younger brother.
There is not much love lost between the United States and Spain.
The late Arthur SchlesingerJr.was an influential writer over the past century, and his journals provide insight into his life.
Argentina's first couple closely resembles Bill and Hillary Clinton--and Mrs. Kirchner may soon follow in her husband's footsteps.
A scholar answers readers' questions about the future of U.S.-Cuba relations and migration policy between the two nations.
A new book offers a unique and captivating perspective on the history of the Pentagon.
A new book explores Europe's ills by examining its demographic and migration problems.
AEI Online
April 19, 2007
Argentina no es un actor regional insignificante.
The riveting story of Ana Belen Montes, who was charged with being a Cuban spy,as told by Scott Carmichael.
Néstor Kirchneris leadingan authoritarian revival in Argentina. Will this once-prosperous country go down the path of Chávez's Venezuela?
A review ofRobert Beisner's Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War.
Arecent U.S. pact with Brazil could pave the way to an efficient, game-changingglobal market in biofuels.
AEI Online
January 26, 2007
El hecho de que Fidel Castro no haya vuelto a aparecer en público luego de su cirugía intestinal, hace casi seis meses, parece indicar que no puede faltar mucho tiempo.
What does the future hold for Venezuela and its president, Hugo Chávez?
AEI Online
January 12, 2007
Is Fidel Castro's death as imminent as evidence suggests? What does the future hold for Cuba and its people?
Hugo Chavez's decision to nationalize the telecommunications and electrical industrieswill takeVenezuela down a backward path.
Isabel Allende is popular in Chile, but just behind her and not always is Roberto Ampuero, whose work isneglected by critics because of its political themes.
There were no surprises in Venezuela's December 3 elections, but there may be a glimmer of hope for the future.
The mechanisms of succession have been in place for some time both in terms of the formal system and the sociology of power.
From the grave--having long since departed this world--Waugh reminds us how far and how badly the continent has traveled since Basil Seal’s lark eight decades ago.
As long as there is a Castro on the scene, Cubans would be well advised to postpone any hopes they might have for a better future.
Even if Chile were to vote Venezuela onto the UN Security Council, no one should doubt Chile's support for the U.S.
A review of Josef Joffe's Uberpower.
A book review of Ted Morgan's My Battle of Algiers.
Review of The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba and Herbert L. Matthews of the New York Times.
A review of Henry James's The Princess Casamassima.
New York Sun
September 12, 2005
A review of Pedro Sanjuan's The UN Gang (Doubleday, 2005).
Byseeing Hugo Chávez in his proper dimension and treating him as a purely folkloric phenomenon we will go a long way toward denying him the prestige and influence he so desperately seeks.
The New Criterion
January 23, 2005
Joseph Conrad's Nostromo is a supreme work of art which is also a prophecy, one which more often than not has been amply fulfilled.
AEI Online
August 1, 2004
Many Latin Americans have become disillusioned with economic reform, privatization, and “neo-liberalism” and are looking once again to the state to solve all their problems.
Revelations of a patrimony of $12 million in Washington bankscan only have a devastating impact on General Augusto Pinochet's place in Chilean history.
Wall Street Journal
July 9, 2004
Bolivian politics threaten to turn the country once again into a charity case.
Brazilian president Lula da Silva must balance his needs for votes with the demands for economic stability and international confidence.
Though declining in global economic importance, Latin America is a major market, a venue of investment, and a source of human capital and labor and energy.
Chapter in Understanding Anti-Americanism by Paul Hollander
June 17, 2004
Republics do not normally commit suicide, but if current trends continue in Bolivia, we may witness the first alteration of the South American political map in more than a hundred years.
The March presidential election in El Salvador, in which the conservative ARENA Party won its fourth consecutive victory in fifteen years, invites serious consideration and analysis.
With the collapse of Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide's government, will the cycle of failure in Haiti be broken?
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.
Woodrow Wilson International Center, Latin America Program
March 1, 2004
Withthe influences of globalization and the Americanization of much of popular culture worldwide, theUnited States and Argentinaare clearly embarked on different courses.
AEI Online
February 1, 2004
The delay in processingthe referendum signatures pertaining to Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez is understandable: a fateful step in the nation's future hinges upon the outcome.
AEI Online
January 1, 2004
Thanks to the strong hand of Senator Eduardo Duhalde, who took over at the end of 2000 from Fernando de la Rúa, Menem's successor, civic order was restored in Argentina.
AEI Online
December 1, 2003
Keeping Bolivia's natural gas in the ground, socializing an economy of extreme povery, and wallowing in indentity politics are not going to solve the nation's problems.
Review of Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Believer by Richard Pipes.
AEI Online
November 1, 2003
An upcoming referendum will determinewhether Venezuelans want their president to continue in office and should make possible the selection of a replacement thirty days thereafter.
The 30th anniversary of the coup d'etat that deposed Chile's Marxist president Salvador Allende has gone, but not without a burst of accusations of American complicity with that event.
AEI Online
October 1, 2003
No doubt about it: the first hundred days in office of Argentina's new president, Néstor Kirchner, have concluded on a note of sweet success.
Senate Finance Committee
September 4, 2003
LetCastro explain to his own people why his pride, his principles, his sovereignty, his dignity, demand that they should go hungry.
AEI Online
September 1, 2003
For a man regarded as an icon of the international Left to have moved successfully to trim the privileges of the public-sector unions in his country is a major achievement for Brazil's Lula.
AEI Online
August 1, 2003
Mexico cannot progress without making drastic changes in societal organization, but the the country's strongest political force, the PRI, will likely block reform.
Today, midway through his term, President Alejandro Toledo of Peru presides over a mess of troubles.
Miami Herald
June 12, 2003
Argentine relations with the United States are not, and cannot be, a zero-sum game.
What a difference a hundred days seems to make--at least, in this case, the first hundred days of President da Silva, who turns out to be the biggest surprise of all.
Cuba hopes that an end to the U.S. trade embargo will suddenly render workable an economic system--Communism--that has failed everywhere else on the globe.
House Human Rights Caucus
May 7, 2003
The worst thing you can do--from a career diplomat's point of view--is to walk away from a commission. But that, I submit, is precisely what we should be doing here.
AEI event on the United Nations
May 5, 2003
Mark Falcoff's remarks from 5/5/2003 NAI "The United Nations Human Rights Commission" event.
In Argentina, as in the recent presidential races in Brazil and Ecuador, outsiders are forced to speculate on whether whoever wins can successfully govern his country.
With the advent of war with Iraq, the United States may not direct its full attention toward Latin America for some time.
National Review
March 10, 2003
Review of This Is Cuba: An Outlaw Culture Survives, by Ben Corbett.
Mexico'sprogress toward becoming an open and more modern society deserves far more attention.
Looking Ahead
March 1, 2003
AEI Online
February 1, 2003
Discusses the future of Venezuela and its president, Hugo Chávez.
Reviews Feltrinelli by Carlo Feltrinelli.
AEI Bradley Lecture
January 13, 2003
Cuba alone has managed to marry the cult of the messianic leader, perhaps the oldest political tendency in Latin American politics, to the totalitarian principle.
AEI Online
January 1, 2003
The election last month of a former military officer, Colonel Lucio Gutiérrez, to the presidency of Ecuador, has raised all kinds of alarm signals around the hemisphere.
Reviews Why Orwell Matters, by Christopher Hitchens.
Times Literary Supplement
December 13, 2002
AEI Online
December 1, 2002
In some ways Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva's victory is the most important development in the democratic history of Brazil.
AEI Online
November 1, 2002
Two Latin Americas seem to be emerging--one running from Mexico City through Central America to Chile, and one from Havana through Caracas, Brasilia, Quito, and Buenos Aires.
AEI Online
October 1, 2002
All of Brazil's presidential candidates advocate soft-populism while at the same time some are attempting to reassure the business, banking, and investment communities at home and abroad.
Reviews Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana, by Ann Louise Bardach, and Cuba Diaries: An American Housewife in Havana, by Isadora Tattlin.
AEI Online
September 1, 2002
There is little basis for believing a mere change of government in Argentina will resolve the country's problems.
The Wall Street Journal
August 9, 2002
Venezuela has long needed a more serious approach to financial-capital formation, economic diversification, regional and agricultural development and human-capital improvement.
AEI Online
August 1, 2002
What Fidel Castro really enjoys is conflict with the United States.
After a decade of general economic growth, all of the countries with the exception of Chile have entered into a period of economic stagnation and--if the term is not too strong--political decay.
On October 6, Brazilians will vote in the first round of an election to determine the successor to President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.
The dramatic events in Venezuela last month, including widespread public protest leading to the apparent resignation of strongman president Hugo Chávez, willkeep armchair analysts busy.
The news from Peru has not been good of late--a breakdown of the government's coalition, strikes and labor disorders, even a possible revival of the Sendero Luminoso guerrilla movement.
After slightly more than two years of fruitless talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC), President Andrés Pastrana redeployed his army and the war formally resumed.
San Diego Union-Tribune
February 24, 2002
Will the first decade of the new century in Latin America resemble the 1980s, years of political and economic stagnation?
AEI Online
February 1, 2002
The apparent disenchantment of many Latin Americans with their own governments has led to an avalanche of misinformed commentary in the international press.
AEI Online
February 1, 2002
Argentina will inevitably have to embrace a much fuller program of free-market reform than it has been willing to attempt thus far.
The Wall Street Journal
January 4, 2002
Freer economic policy has demonstrated to many Argentines the advantages of modernity; the country has had a sound currency and low rates of inflation, a working telephone system, and long-term home mortgages.
Review of Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-65,edited by Michael Beschloss.
AEI Online
December 1, 2001
Chávez enjoys a hard core of popular support, variously estimated at between 20 and 50 percent.
AEI Online
November 1, 2001
Argentina needs a fuller and more candid discussion of the economic alternatives than her political class has so far been willing to undertake.
AEI Online
October 1, 2001
Nicaragua provides insight into the pathologies that afflict postrevolutionary states, and on what we can expect in post-Castro Cuba and post-Chávez Venezuela.
AEI Online
September 1, 2001
Democracy, markets, globalization constitute the only show in town and will remain so unless and until the antiglobalization forces can come up with a credible and workable alternative.
The New Criterion
September 1, 2001
The Wall Street Journal
August 22, 2001
Book review of Villa and Zapata
AEI Online
August 1, 2001
If successful, Mercosurwill create a politico-economic area rivaling NAFTA, and if it becomes part of NAFTA, it willtilt the balance of the organization decisively toward the Latin side.
The Washington Times
July 17, 2001
Rumors that Schroeder would honorCastro with an invitation to Germany never materialized, but Mr. Schroeder has sent his economics minister to schmooze with Fidel.
The World & I
July 1, 2001
Review of The Real Contra War: HighlanderPeasantResistanceinNicaragua, by TimothyC.Brown
The Wall Street Journal
June 5, 2001
Peru is a difficult country to govern because, divided by geography and ethnicity, it has a history of repeatedly reinventing its political institutions.
Presidents such as Chávez, García, or Lula will end up serving U.S. purposes by demonstrating beyond all doubt that populist demagoguery cannot deliver the goods.
The International Economy
May 1, 2001
Blessed with charisma and communication skills, Chavez has managed to hold public affection; nonetheless enormous difficulties lieahead.
Disillusioned with politics as usual, Venezuelans have turned to a strong man, Chavez, to resolve their economic and social problems.
What Peru needs above all is a president committed to the building of institutions, not just the resolution of everyday problems.
AEI Online
February 1, 2001
Corruption in Mexico is long-standing, and it is more pernicious for having been democratized over the many decades of PRI rule.
AEI Online
December 1, 2000
Immigration reminds us of the growing importance of Latin America and the degree to which its problems have a way of landing on our doorstep.
AEI Online
November 1, 2000
All who wish Venezuela well can only hope that when the moment of truth arrives Chavez or his successor will prove capable of shifting course--and that it will not be too late to do so.
AEI Online
October 1, 2000
To the extent thatEcuador's problemsmay be a harbinger of trends in countries more central to American policy, they are worth more than a moment’s attention.
Mark Falcoff reviews Arch Puddington's Broadcasting Freedom: The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.
AEI Online
September 1, 2000
Although many Latin American countries have a history of unrealized potential, perhaps none of them has ever captured the imagination of outsiders quite so much as Brazil.
On Sunday, July 2, millions of Mexicans caught the attention of media throughout the United States, Latin America, and Europe by electing Vicente Fox.
For Americans, the Southern Coneremains to a remarkable degree terra incognita.
The most serious concern for the United States—and indeed all who wish Venezuela well—may be the prospect of the country becoming quite literally ungovernable.
National Review
May 1, 2000
Marquez characterizes the United Statesas the villain andCuba as the good country.
National Review
May 1, 2000
The balance of forces in Chile has changed, due to a new generation,to the conservative stewardship of recent center-left governments, and to the international exposure given toPinochet.
Elian Gonzalez is a victim of two contradictory and conflicting American policies.
National Post
March 4, 2000
Is the United States about to descend the slippery slope toward another unwinnable jungle war?
American Spectator
March 1, 2000
Review of Ronald Steel's In Love With Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy.
AEI Online
January 1, 2000
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez must decide whether he wants to be a old-fashioned populist or a new sort of Latin American leader.
Wall Street Journal
December 3, 1999
Panama and the U.S. should both accept that the time has come for the parting of the ways, regardless of the uncertainties over the future.
AEI Online
December 1, 1999
Political democracy has not solved any of Latin America's pressing economic and social problems.
Foreign Policy
December 1, 1999
Review of A Necessary Leader by Andres Allamand.
AEI Online
November 1, 1999
Mexico is a nation in political transition--rich in possibilities, to be sure, but replete with uncertainties as well.
AEI Online
October 1, 1999
Choices Argentine voterswill make later this month are as much about the style of their leaders and the texture of their political life as the content or direction of policy.
American Spectator
October 1, 1999
As the United States prepares to hand over the canal for good, Panamanians are wondering whether they really want us to leave.
AEI Online
September 1, 1999
Which would threatenen Mexican stability--a PRI victory that was widely questioned by the electorate, or an opposition win that was recognized only grudgingly by the former ruling party?
American Spectator
September 1, 1999
Review ofDecision for Disaster: Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs, by Grayston Lynch.
Times Literary Supplement
August 6, 1999
Review of A Woman Unknown by Lucia Graves.
Wall Street Journal
August 4, 1999
Review of France On The Brink by Jonathan Fenby
While hoping for the best, we would be well counseled to prepare for the possibility that Colombia will leave the civilized world and become a new rogue actor in international politics.
Times Literary Supplement
July 2, 1999
Review of Castro's Daughter by Alina Fernandez.
The Brazilian crisis is deeper and more complex than meeting IMF targets or finding ready buyers for bonds.
The World & I
June 1, 1999
Wall Street Journal
May 14, 1999
Argentine President Carlos Menem has been forced to acknowledge that it would not be advisable to test constitutional limitations and run for a third consecutive term.
The end of the military presence in Panama is therefore in my opinion a net gain for the United States.
Neither Chile nor Argentina has completely liquidated the tragic legacies of the recent past, but both have made immense progress toward reestablishing democracy and the rule of law.
Menem has provoked controversywith his proposal in February that Argentina abandon the peso and adopt the U.S. dollar as the official means of exchange.
National Interest
April 1, 1999
U.S. concern over the contagion of the Cuban revolution seems exaggerated in retrospect.
The National Interest
April 1, 1999
Wall Street Journal
March 3, 1999
Guatemala has been conscripted frequently to establish the malevolence of American foreign policy, particularly though not exclusively in Latin America.
The United States can only stand by and hope for the best while Venezuelans work out the terms of their own national drama.
National Review
February 22, 1999
Review of The Empress Of Splendid Season, by Oscar Hijuelos.
American Spectator
February 1, 1999
Australian Financial Review
January 18, 1999
Wall Street Journal
November 13, 1998
AEI Online
November 13, 1998
It is in the best interests of both Panama and America to proceed with the canal turnover as planned.
Time (Latin American Edition)
November 9, 1998
The European fascist sensibility, if not precisely the fascist system, found new roots and new life in Argentina.
AEI Online
October 1, 1998
The October election is highly significant for Brazil, and indeed for all of Latin America.
American Spectator
October 1, 1998
The post-Cold War period has rearranged the furniture of world politics in strange and interesting ways, but perhaps nothing is quite so bizarre as the current alliance between Castro's Cuba and Canada.
National Review
September 14, 1998
Review of Havana Dreams by Wendy Gimbel.
AEI Online
September 1, 1998
What makes 1999's presidential elections in Argentina so interesting is that, almost for the first time in memory, voters will not be selecting between drastically different prescriptions for the nation's future.
The best outcome that can be hoped for in Venezuela's election is either a Chávez suddenly sobered by the responsibilities of power or the victory of a civilian politician such as Salas Römer who is capable of reaching out to those who have not voted for him.
A new treaty with appropriate status-of-forces agreements must be negotiated, signed, and sent to this distinguished body for ratification.
Paraguay'sdemocratic political culture is arguably the most fragile and problematic in South America. Its regression to the old-time religion of militarism cum-populism can no longer be written off as an example of cultural singularity.
The National Interest
June 1, 1998
Review of Sumner Welles and Secret Affairs.
One of the most important consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Empire has been a deep ideological crisis within the Latin American Left.
Washington Post
March 24, 1998
The New Republic
March 2, 1998
The recent visit of Pope John Paul II to Cuba has once again revived a debate within the United States concerning the existing U.S. trade embargo of the island.
Times Literary Supplement
February 27, 1998
Review of Todo Debe Ser Demasiado by Vida de Delia del Carril.
Times Literary Supplement
February 13, 1998
Review of Encyclopaedia of Latin American Literature, edited by Verity Smith.
AEI Online
February 1, 1998
Venezuela is one of the richest and most strategically important countries in Latin America, however, today it is in a deep funk.
Review ofDaniel Pipes's Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From.
The American Spectator
January 1, 1998
Review of Taking Charge edited by Michael Beschloss.
Review ofMichael R. Beschloss's Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964.
AEI Online
December 1, 1997
With the Santiago summit, both the administration and Congress would be well advised to build on the persistent advantages that remain for us within the region.
National Review
November 10, 1997
Review of Empire by Denis Judd.
AEI Online
November 1, 1997
A strategy for the United States would be to begin fast-track negotiations with individual Latin American countries on a case-by-case basis and let Brazil go its own way.
AEI Online
October 1, 1997
Bill Clinton's presence in Argentina will highlight significant victories in the economic field and efforts to attract significant new foreign investment from Western Europe, Japan, and the United States.
AEI Online
September 1, 1997
Issues include the role of Brazil as a counterweight to the United States, the future of economic liberalization, and the prospect of the region splitting into two large trading groups.
Foreign Policy
September 1, 1997
Review of The Weight of Truth, by Domingo Cavallo.
The real problem in Mexico is that the old institutions and practices can no longer serve the country's needs, but nothing has yet arisen to replace them.
Times Literary Supplement
June 13, 1997
Review of The Americans in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850 by Lester Langley.
Is the United States on the verge of pushing the major Latin American countries into a new arms race?
American Spectator
June 1, 1997
Review of Che Guevara, by Jon Anderson.
Weekly Standard
May 19, 1997
Review of Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada, by Zoe Valdes.
Theoutcome ofBrazilian Cardoso's reform program will shape the future of Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay and influence developments in Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia.
Congress established a procedure whereby each year the president must "certify" that a given country is cooperating with us in the eradication of drug production and trafficking; must end.
Washington Times
March 30, 1997
Review of The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America, by Paul C. Roberts and Karen Araujo.
AEI Online
February 1, 1997
One notices how unpopular the first Clinton administration has been in Latin America and with what trepidation most of the republics face the prospects of a second four years.
American Spectator
February 1, 1997
Review of Radical Son, by David Horowitz.
Diario Las Americas
December 21, 1996
AEI Online
December 1, 1996
Acatastrophic turn of events in Mexico would have an equally deleterious effect on the economic integration with Latin America, a project already put on hold because of the peso crisis nearly two years ago.
The National Interest
December 1, 1996
Review of Reflections of a Cold Warrior, by Richard Bissell.
Wall Street Journal
November 14, 1996
Review of three books on Eva Peron.
AEI Online
November 1, 1996
Ortega's electoral defeat establishes that the Nicaraguan people wish to put the Sandinista era behind them; the problems of Nicaraguan society are too deep to be resolved by an electoral contest alone.
AEI Online
October 1, 1996
This month's election in Brazil will be the first crucial test faced by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso since his election two years ago.
AEI Online
September 1, 1996
Withthe departure of Argentineminister of economy Domingo Cavalloan entirely new era began in that country's politics.
Dallas Morning News
August 19, 1996
The United States, the most successful country in history, manages to be kept awake at night by imaginary perils.
Washington Post
August 13, 1996
Review of The Flight by Horacio Verbitsky.
New York Times
August 5, 1996
Once Cubans are allowed to hire other Cubans (rather than to work for foreign companies, which have to pay their salaries to the Cuban state), the island will genuinely be starting to open up.
The absence of Latin America as a major issue in the U.S. presidential campaign causes many in the region to worry that after November it may not receive the priority it deserves.
Review of A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua 1977-1990 by Robert Kagan.
Weekly Standard
June 17, 1996
Review of Manual del perfecto idiota latinoamericano (Manual for the Perfect Latin American Idiot), by Carlos Alberto Montaner, Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, and Alvaro Vargas Llosa.
With the passage of the Helms-Burton Act, U.S.-Cuban relations have entered a new and even more hostile phase.
The current controversy over the place of Spanish culture in U.S. life tends to exaggerate a problem that--though dating back to the sixteenth century--is in the process of sorting itself out.
Argentina has becomeAmerica's closest regional ally under the rule of Peronist President Carlos Menem, whocame to power in 1989.
Is it, in fact, democracy the Clinton administration brought to Haiti in its "Operation Restore Democracy"?
The United States will leave Panama, turning over complete control of the canal to national authorities there, bringing to a close a transition period of more than twenty years.
With Mexico America's problem is not one of information (we know more about it than all the other countries in Latin America combined) but interpretation and analysis.
American Spectator
March 1, 1996
Review of Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary, by Dmitri Volkogonov.
Times of London
February 29, 1996
It is understandable that Canada or France or Iraq or Mexico might choose to use Cuba as a means to achieve some measure of independence from the world’s remaining superpower.
Weekly Standard
February 26, 1996
In spite of the outcry in liberal and human rights circles in the United States, it is unlikely that Berenson will serve anything like a life sentence.
AEI Online
February 1, 1996
Much Latin American analysis in the press, particularly the financial press, is written in a curiously positivistic vein, as if the region as a whole could be compressed into numbers alone.
American Spectator
January 1, 1996
Review of The Southern Front: History and Politics in the Cultural War by Eugene Genovese.
The World & I
October 1, 1995
Washington Post
September 3, 1995
Review of Next Year in Cuba: A Cubano’s Coming of Age in America, by Gustavo Perez Firmat.
The National Interest
June 1, 1995
Essay review of five books on Cuba.
Review of The Secret World of American Communism, by H. Klehr, J.E. Haynes, and F.I. Firsov.
Inter-American Dialogue
May 22, 1995
The Washington Times
April 5, 1995
Latin America has still not regained the kind of international confidence it needs to attract the kind of investment it requires.
Mobile Register
March 26, 1995
Times Literary Supplement
February 10, 1995
Review of The Vogue of Revolution in Poor Countries by Forrest Colburn.
New Criterion
January 1, 1995
Review of Mea Cuba by Guillermo Cabrera Infante.
Wall Street Journal
December 12, 1994
Review of Franco by Paul Preston.
Times Literary Supplement
June 17, 1994
Review of A Fish in the Water by Mario Vargas Llosa.
Washington Times
May 24, 1994
Review of A Way In The World, by V. S. Naipaul.
Times Literary Supplement
March 25, 1994
Review of The Franco-Peron Alliance by Raanan Rein.
Sunday Telegraph
March 20, 1994
Review of Fidel Castro by Robert Quirk.
Times Literary Supplement
February 11, 1994
Review of Utopia Unarmed by Jorge Castaneda.
World Affairs
January 1, 1994
Review of Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas Against the West by Stephen Koch.
The New Criterion
January 1, 1994
Review of The Man Who Wasn't Maigret by Patrick Marnham.
Times Literary Supplement
October 29, 1993
Review of Paper Tigers and Minotaurs by Moises Naim.
The American Scholar
July 1, 1993
The New Criterion
June 1, 1993
Review of Gerald Brenan by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy.
Thursday's Child is by turns witty, ironic, and evocative, a monument to some of the events which have shaped (and misshaped) our era.
Freedom Review
March 1, 1993
Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College
December 9, 1992
National Review
October 5, 1992
Review of Lost Property by Ben Sonnenberg.
The American Scholar
September 1, 1992
Review of The Nazi Menace in Argentina, 1931-47 by R. C. Newton.
American Spectator
August 1, 1992
Review of Jean Lacouture's De Gaulle.
Review of Khrushchev and the First Russian Spring by Fedor Burlatsky.
Freedom Review
July 1, 1992
Review of Anti-Americanism by Paul Hollander.
The New Criterion
April 1, 1992
Review of The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World by Carlos Fuentes.
Global Affairs
January 1, 1992
Barron's
October 21, 1991
Review of Clifford's Counsel to the President.
American Spectator
October 1, 1991
International Economy
September 1, 1991
The National Interest
July 1, 1991
Global Affairs
July 1, 1991
Global Affairs
January 1, 1991
Review of The Suez-Sinai Crisis 1956 by S.I. Troen and M. Shemesh.
CEO/International Strategies
January 1, 1991
Global Affairs
January 1, 1991
Review of 1940 by Clive Ponting.
New Criterion
December 1, 1990
The American Spectator
September 1, 1990
Review of Christopher Hitchens' Blood, Class and Nostalgia.