Charles Krauthammer

Essays

Charles Krauthammer, Mark Brzezinski, Pater Lavelle, Jay Loo, Moshe Zvi Marvit and Fred Siegel.

What distinguishes "democratic globalism" --the target of Francis Fukuyama's attack-- from the author's own "democratic realism"?  The second chooses its battles more carefully.

As the "unipolar moment" stretches out into an era, its opportunities and vulnerabilities both come clearer a dozen years after its conceptual coinage.

Kosovo was a new kind of war, one fought for humanitarian purposes. It will be the last of its kind.

Commentary

 The form of realism that I am arguing for - call it the new unilateralism-is clear in its determination to self-consciously and confidently deploy American power in pursuit of those global ends.

Let me start by reflecting on a few things that were said earlier.

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May 25, 2012