A bit more on Stephen Walt's views of Robert Kaplan as an important "realist" voice: There are a lot of different definitions of "realist," and I suppose that Robert Kaplan ticks off some of the major points; he's primarily interested in "power politics" broadly defined,...
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As Bahrain, Libya, and Wisconsin burn, I've been in San Antonio for a Liberty Fund conference on "Strategy and Liberty in Thucydides Peloponnesian War". There are sixteen participants, sporting.
PTJ has an interesting idea: I did a little digging and thus far have been completely unable to locate something that I would have thought that someone would have already.
Robert Kaplan says all manner of silly things, but because he says them in important places, we're supposed to listen: He or she who sits in Delhi with his back to Muslim Central Asia must still worry about unrest up on the plateaus to the...
In honor of the trend of "How did I get it wrong" posts, this is a brief examination of how I managed to get it right on Iraq. Revisiting correct.
This is all interesting and stuff, but it would help if someone would explain which side is in favor of democracy, goodness, and apple pie, and which side is Islamist,.
Back in the day, a fair amount of the policy oriented literature on international security focused on the question of relationships between patron and client states. The reasons for this were obvious; the Soviet Union and the United States were in competition for the allegiancefriendship...
This goes up on the office door.
It's interesting to me that "must" is so big in the tag clouds of both the Bush and Obama NSS. "Must" implies a lack of freedom; it's much different than.
Radical Contra and blowback have expressed skepticism as to North Korea's purported role in the sinking of the Cheonan. Blowback: So South Korea has North Korean torpedos. So it is possible that the Cheonan was sunk by a North Korean torpedo fired from a South...
Seems like progress, if sanctions on Iran are your thing: President Obama secured a promise from President Hu Jintao of China on Monday to join negotiations on a new package.
In about an hour, Charli and I will sit on a roundtable titled "Do International Relations Blogs Inform Practice? Theory? Both? Neither?" with Stephen Walt, Dan Drezner, William Winecoff, and.