John R. Bolton

Essays

Global Governance

What Price Human Rights?

| 06.01.99

An exchange on how the sensitive and contentious issue of human rights should be integrated into our foreign policy.

Global Governance

Courting Danger

| 12.01.98

Advocates of a permanent international court to try perpetrators of war crimes and other "crimes against humanity" achieved a major success in July 1997.

Security

The Prudent Irishman: Edmund Burke's Realism

| 12.01.97

One of the many consequences of communism's collapse is disarray in the conceptual structures of American foreign policy. Without a clear focal point, one-time hawks now flap like doves, while erstwhile doves behave like birds of prey. The strateg

The Great Debate

Society

Can North Korea Be Stopped?

| 11.01.08

John Bolton argues it is time for a harsh crackdown on a misbehaving North, while James Kelly thinks we need to give talks a chance.

Commentary

Global Governance

What Obama Should Say to the UN

| 09.21.11

From Western decline to peace-process paralysis to the rise of rogue states, what Obama must address—and what he should take responsibility for.

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