Table of Contents
Spring 2007 - Number 12
From the Publisher

Tom Neumann

Editor’s Corner

Ilan Berman

The Bush Scorecard

What War on Terror?

Michael F. Scheuer

When it comes to counterterrorism, the Administration’s glass is more than half empty

Reinvigorating Intelligence

John C. Wobensmith & Jeff Smith

Halting steps toward intelligence reform need to be bolstered and expanded

Draining the Financial Swamp

Andrew Davenport

The White House has set its sights on a new financial target: the terror masters

Making Missile Defense Matter

Henry F. Cooper

Washington needs to move beyond mediocrity in its protection of the American people

Nonproliferation, By the Numbers

Henry Sokolski

Preventing nuclear proliferation has become a distinctly political exercise

Securing the Home Front

James Jay Carafano

Under the radar, some quiet homeland security successes

Response

Russian Democracy, Revisited

Stephen J. Blank

Why Kremlin accountability is indispensable

Looking Ahead

The Death of Democracy Promotion?

Ilan Berman

What the Bush legacy teaches us about the spread of democracy

Countering Iraq’s Weapon of Mass Effect

Dan O’Shea

Understanding the strategic impact of kidnappings in Iraq

Forging an Iran Strategy

David L. Grange et al.

After Baker-Hamilton, a “Plan B” for dealing with Iran

The Democratic Moment?

Lawrence J. Haas

What Democrats need to do in order to seize the national security initiative

Dispatches

RUSSIA: The Centrality of the Caucasus

Sergei Markedonov

GREECE: The Limits of “Europeanization”

Andrew N. Liaropoulos

GREAT BRITAIN: The Economics of Marginalization

Chris Heaton-Harris

Book Reviews

Reading Iran Right

Gary Metz

Mark Bowden explains what the 1979 hostage crisis tells us about dealing with Iran’s ayatollahs

Demography as Destiny

Christopher Brown

A prescient warning about the coming upheaval, courtesy of Mark Steyn

Belly of the Beast

Eric R. Sterner

Iraq through the eyes of Nir Rosen... and the insurgents

Continuity, not Change

Mackubin Thomas Owens

Robert Kagan puts the Bush doctrine in historical context