Melvin Lee Goodman

The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze

On the Battlefields of the Cold War: A Soviet Ambassador's Confession

Gorbachev's Retreat: The Third World

Evolutionary Theory and Ethnic Conflict

The End of Superpower Conflict in the Third World

The Phantom Defense: America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion

In the past four decades, the United States has spent $85 billion pursuing the fantasy of an effective missile defense system to shield our nation against the threat of a nuclear attack. Recent public tests, while less exotic than some of the original Star Wars proposals, were spectacular failures a...

Gorbachev and Soviet Policy in the Third World

National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism (Open Media) by Melvin A. Goodman (2013-03-05)

The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze

When Eduard Shevardnadze resigned as foreign minister of the Soviet Union in 1990, he ended one of the most remarkable and controversial political partnerships in modern history. Together with Mikhail Gorbachev and Alexander Yakovlev, Shevardnadze led the dramatic Soviet about-face in the 1980s that...

Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk

Fifty years ago, the United States founded the United Nations, promoted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, used economic aid as a tool for creating stability, and viewed collective agreements and cooperation as the principal methods of sharing the costs and the risks of security. Today, unde...

The Wars of Edvard Shevardnadze: Second Edition, Revised and Updated

Together with Mikhail Gorbachev and Alexander Yakovlev, Eduard Shevardnadze led the dramatic Soviet about-face in the 1980s that ended the Cold War and transformed the international political climate. While Gorbachev and Yakovlev focused on domestic reform, Shevardnadze redirected foreign policy. Th...

Whistleblower at the CIA: An Insider’s Account of the Politics of Intelligence

"Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military . . . he is also telling us how to save ourselves."--Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker"Whistleblower at the CIA offers a fascinating glimpse into the secret, behind-the-scenes...

Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA

The time for serious soul-searching regarding the role of the Central Intelligence Agency and the intelligence community in general is long overdue. The recent intelligence failures regarding the unanticipated collapse of the Soviet Union, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the run-up ...