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Republican Reckoning

Jacob Heilbrunn | Jun 23, 2009
Mismanaged for eight years by the Bush administration, the Republican Party is in peril. Neoconservative table scraps are neither appropriate nor wise. But the GOP has another foreign-policy tradition to which it can turn. Presidents from Eisenhow

The Road to Moscow

Gary Hart
Dimitri K. Simes
| Apr 27, 2009
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.

Continental Drifts

Geoffrey Wheatcroft | Mar 02, 2009
America and the Continent may find themselves once again a united force to be reckoned with by the rest of the world. But the odds are grim.

Empire Falls

Robert A. Pape | Jan 22, 2009
The United States is in unprecedented decline. Future generations will look back at the past decade as the beginning of the end of American hegemony.

Putin's Third Way

Clifford G. Gaddy
Barry W. Ickes
| Jan 21, 2009
With the rise in oil prices and a conservative fiscal policy, Russia turned from a debtor nation into an economic powerhouse, creating a compromise between the excesses of the free market and the inefficiencies of a command economy

A Sit-Down with Brent Scowcroft

Justine A. Rosenthal | Jan 21, 2009
The principles of transformationalism—idealism spread by the barrel of a gun—have been central to America’s foreign-policy failings over the last eight years. With a new leadership in power, Washington has a chance to right past wrongs. But that w
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Commentary

Travels with the Russian Tortoise

Anatol Lieven | Sep 13, 2010
Is Vladimir Putin more like an American president, an austere Roman emperor or a French head of state?

Does the Reset Have a Future?

Alexey Pushkov | Sep 03, 2010
A chill has resurfaced in relations between Moscow and Washington. Is the "reset" a two-way street, or just a tactic to get Russia to do America's bidding?

An Israeli Weighs in on the Flotilla

Benny Morris | Aug 11, 2010
A number of recent events have triggered an awful lot of hypocrisy toward Israel.
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Books & Reviews

Punditry at the Drive-Thru

David Rieff | Aug 24, 2010
Peter Beinart's books represent the intellectual equivalent of what nutritionists call the empty-calorie principle.

America Under the Caesars

Michael Lind | Jun 28, 2010
Anti-interventionists allege our leaders traded a strong, austere republic for a weak and sprawling empire predicated on a military might that could not match our own ambitions. This narrative negates real threats and real victories.

Exodus

Walter Laqueur | Mar 02, 2009
Morris turns to the origins of the one-state and two-state conceptions. It helps explain how the Israelis and Palestinians got themselves into this intractable conflict in the first place.
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