James Kurth

Essays

Security

Migration and the Dynamics of Empire

| 03.01.03

Do all roads lead to the new (American) Rome? The imperial task has always been affected by the movement of peoples. It still is.

Security

The American Way of Victory

| 06.01.00

The twentieth century witnessed, and its course was largely defined by, a trilogy of American wartime victories. But in the aftermath of the first two, the peace was lost. After the Cold War, will it happen again?

Economics

To Sing a Different Song

| 06.01.99

As the easternmost members of "the West", the Baltic states consider their options for the future.

Society

Inside the Cave: The Banality of I.R. Studies

| 09.01.98

In general, the landscape of international relations thinking in the United States is a view of a great American desert with a few refreshing and enlivening oases. Here's how to improve it.

Security

The Adolescent Empire: America and the Imperial Idea

| 06.01.97

A look at the New Atlantic Initiative.

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Reviews

Society

The Late American Nation

| 09.01.04

America has thrived thanks to its Anglo-Protestant culture. But does that culture carry the seeds of its own demise?

Society

'If Men Were Angels. . . ' : Reflections on the World of Eric Hobsbawm

| 06.01.95

Historians have recently begun to see the twentieth century as lasting from 1914 to 1989 (the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe) or to 1991 (the end of the Soviet Union), what Eric Hobsbawm in his new book calls "the short twentieth century.

Society

Eastern Question, Western Answer

| 12.01.93

William Pfaff, The Wrath of Nations: Civilization and the Fury of Nationalism (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993), 256 pp.

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