In August 2001, a former chief terrorism expert at the Department of State wrote in the New York Times that the Bush Administration was obsessed with terrorism and using it to persuade the American people to build missile defenses.
In the December 17, 2003 issue of In The National Interest, Nikolas Gvosdev argues that part of the trick of useful diplomacy is to enhance the number of shareholders in any enterprise, using power to create consensus, which can then act as a force m