We might rephrase Theodore Roosevelt’s famous saying about “big stick” diplomacy thusly: Speak softly and carry a small stick, and you will go far—provided you have a big stick handy. That maxim has ...

Nancy Cohen, author of "The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914" (University of North Carolina Press, 2002), lectures in U.S. history at UCLA. As President Bush plans his first major ...

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Viewing sea power as a continuum gives China’s leadership a range of options, including brandishing a small stick to accomplish its goals. It can do so because Manila and other claimants to regional ...

China is evidently trying to replicate its “small – stick diplomacy” in the East China Sea. Seldom submerged by far, the Senkakus/Diaoyus imbroglio resurfaced with a vengeance last Friday when six ...

A seemingly quixotic impasse between Philippine and Chinese ships played out this week at Scarborough Shoal, 120-odd miles west of the Philippine island of Luzon. We say “seemingly” because it makes ...