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...Karl E. Meyer Copyright © 2000 World Policy Institute 2000 C#DA As Much as I Dare A nettled writer once defined an editor as a skilled professional employed to separate the wheat from the chaff, who then makes sure the chaff is printed. Readers too may share that frustration...

...Karl E. Meyer Copyright © 2001 World Policy Institute 2001 RECONSIDERATIONS K a rl E. Meyer is editor »/W orld Policy Journal an d the author, with Shareen B la ir Brysac, »/Tournam ent of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia (Counterpoint, 1999...

...Karl E. Meyer Copyright © 2001 World Policy Institute 2001 C *D A If Not Perfect, at Least Excellent Cynics assert that Americans are allergic to history, a subject so useless that the word itself is almost an epithet (as in, “You’re history Advertisers and television...

...Karl E. Meyer Copyright © 2001 World Policy Institute 2001 C *D A “One Hell of a Gamble” To speak of “movie history” is to risk an oxymoron. No fabrication is too outlandish, no tale too tall, or liberty too gross, in a genre commonly concocted by the uncaring to amuse...

...Karl E. Meyer Copyright © 2002 World Policy Institute 2002 C#DA On Showing “A Decent Respect” Invade Iraq? As we were closing these pages, the war drums were beating in Washington for unilateral armed intervention to depose Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq and replace...

...Karl E. Meyer B ##K S Karl E. Meyer is editor of World Policy Journal. The Quicksands of Realism K arl E. Meyer E. H. Carr: A Critical Appraisal Michael Cox, ed. Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave, 1999 Hans J. Morgenthau...

...Karl E. Meyer Copyright © 2001 World Policy Institute 2001 C#DA A New Board Game Like a tree adding a new ring, this journal from time to time restructures its editorial advi­ sory board— an unpaid assemblage of qualified and interesting figures in the broad realm...

...Karl E. Meyer Copyright © 2002 World Policy Institute 2002 C#DA Criminal Thinking in Washington The tried and true barometers of American opinion recall Dr. Freud’s famous analytic triad. Our Id is the stock market, which measures such raw and primal emotions...

...Karl E. Meyer Copyright © 2002 World Policy Institute 2002 C #D A “Regime Change” and Other Enigmas At press time, we cannot be sure whether Saddam Hussein’s witching-hour offer of unre­ stricted inspections is meant seriously, or if the Security Council in any case...