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Balancing

Beyond American Hegemony

Michael Lind | May 01, 2007
The United States should abandon its futile attempt to secure global hegemony in favor of a concert-of-power foreign-policy strategy.

The Democratic Imperative

Adrian Karatnycky | Jun 01, 2004
The world's democrats have joined forces, to the benefit of all involved.

America as European Hegemon

Christopher Layne | Jun 01, 2003
Despite broad acceptance of the view that the United States has been an "offshore balancer" with regard to Europe over the past several decades, the facts don't fit the theory--the facts of the past dozen years most particularly.

Who's Afraid of Mr. Big?

Josef Joffe | Jun 01, 2001
The "soft" nature of America's international primacy has so far dissuaded other nations from forming a military coalition to balance against the United States. But the prospect is not unthinkable.

A Choice of Europes

David Calleo | Mar 01, 2001
European security can best be bolstered through structures that embody both the West's ideals and geopolitical realities.

Getting Hegemony Right

G. John Ikenberry | Mar 01, 2001
If it is to avoid global resentment and ward off potentially hostile coalitions, the United States must continue to ensure that others have a stake in its hegemonic system.
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Commentary

Loose BRICs

Daniel W. Drezner | Jun 17, 2009
Americans shouldn’t be alarmed by the BRIC summit. The body is just another toothless international grouping, not an attempt to exert hard power.

Books & Reviews

The Best Defense

Barry R. Posen | Mar 01, 2002
Can John Mearsheimer's analysis of "offensive realism" explain or guide U.S. foreign policy? Better, perhaps, than the author realizes.

Home and Abroad

| Sep 01, 1996
At this point, it is too early to tell whether to be optimistic or whether the only healthy response to our current domestic economic discontents will be to lower expectations. Perhaps books like The End of Affluence and The Good Life

Enough Said; Review of Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993)

Neil McInnes | Sep 01, 1993
What we have here is a book on literature, plus two or three pamphlets that contain much ranting, all barely held together in a bad case of intellectual sprawl.

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