论杜鲁门时期的美国东南亚政策

在杜鲁门总统任内,随着冷战向亚洲扩展,美国逐步重视东南亚在美苏对抗中的地位和作用,其东南亚政策从无到有,插手东南亚事务,加强东南亚地区的反共力量以应对新中国的建立。朝鲜战争爆发后,杜鲁门政府全面遏制中国,确立以制华为核心的东南亚政策,为冷战期间的美国东南亚战略奠定了基调。     

Four Approaches to Harry S. Truman

JOHN BLEDSOE BONDS. Bipartisan Strategy: Selling the Marshall Plan. Westport: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xv, 238. $64.95 (us); MICHAEL F. HOPKINS. Oliver Franks and the Truman Administration: Anglo-American Relations, 1948–1952. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2003. Pp. xvii, 278. $62.50 (us); ARTHUR D. KAHN. Experiment in Occupation: Witness to the Turnabout: Anti-Nazi War to Cold War, 1944– 1946. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 227. $45.00 (us); ANNE R. PIERCE. Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman: Mission and Power in American Foreign Policy. Westport: Praeger, 2003. Pp. xvii, 302. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by Andrew J. Dunar     

Where the Buck Stopped: Harry S Truman and the Cold War

Book reviewed:
Arnold A. Offner. Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War , 1945 – 1953.     

Justices Seeking the Presidency

The separation of powers in the Constitution of the United States has never been absolute in either theory or practice. This is especially true in the quest for public office. At least one President, William Howard Taft, aspired to be a Supreme Court Justice. Several Supreme Court Justices seriously considered becoming President. These are a few stories about those ambitions.     

The Presidency and the News Media

Abstract

Leo Strauss, often considered a critic of modernity, is famous for his claim that Machiavelli, in turning away from the classical tradition, is its originator. Yet his “Restatement on Xenophon's Hiero” presents a concise indictment of that tradition and a remarkably sympathetic account of the political and philosophic motives that led to the rupture. In light of this tension, Strauss's interest in Xenophon appears as a useful counterweight to both.