Watching McNamara in Tehran Available to Purchase

In the spring of 2001, Robert McNamara and I wrote in these pages that it was time to bring Russia and China, the (then) big losers at the end of the Cold War, “in from the cold.” At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Russia was feeling betrayed by U.S. advocacy of NATO enlargement, and China was deeply upset by the U.S. refusal to oppose Taiwanese independence.