Dimitri K. Simes Profile | The National Interest

Essays

Politics

Leading Blindly across a Minefield

| 01.02.13

The international system is at a transformative moment. Yet President Obama has failed to set a direction for America.

Politics

Morality Play Instead of Policy

| 08.22.12

International trends have become less favorable to the United States. This national vacation from serious foreign-policy analysis in the political arena is both ill timed and dangerous.

Economics

Foreign-Policy Failure

| 08.24.11

Obama’s foreign-policy decisions—from provoking Islamabad to two-timing Beijing to alienating Moscow—lack the strategic long-term thinking the U.S. needs. Hypocrisy and incoherence rule.

Society

The Kremlin Begs To Differ

| 10.28.09

One doesn’t need to be a Russian domestic radical or a foreign Russophobe to see major flaws in the way Russia is ruled. The population, however, is satisfied with the status quo...for now.

Security

Since the end of the cold war, American foreign policy toward Russia has been dismissive of Russian interests. Acknowledging that a country has separate aims does not mean we cannot work toward common goals.

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Reviews

Society

Voices in the Wilderness

| 08.29.07

Notwithstanding the book's shortcomings, Mearsheimer and Walt do perform an important service in pointing out how difficult it is to produce pragmatic decisions based on national interest.