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Ennui Becomes Us

Randall L. Schweller | Dec 16, 2009
Chaos and randomness abound. The increasing disorder of our world will lead to a sort of global ennui mixed with a disturbingly large dose of individual extremism and dogmatic posturing by states.

Voting Blind

Justine A. Rosenthal
Dimitri K. Simes
| Sep 03, 2008
John McCain and Barack Obama are busily offering foreign-policy platitudes on the campaign trail, mostly about spreading freedom, working with allies and hunting down terrorists. But what exactly would they do if elected? Digging ourselves out of

Conflicts Without Borders

Stefan Wolff | Apr 25, 2008
How to contain the virus of ethnic conflict.

Staying Alive

Ted Galen Carpenter | Feb 29, 2008
Is a state by any other name still a state? Nations’ risky operations to maintain de facto status.

A Realist Symposium: Partisans Reviewed

Derek Chollet
Grover G. Norquist
Dov S. Zakheim
Dimitri K. Simes
| Sep 13, 2007
Responding to Dimitri K. Simes’s assertion that we aren’t having a real debate over foreign policy, Derek Chollet argues the Democrats are providing genuine alternatives; Grover G. Norquist looks at the structural reasons inhibiting both parties f

Appetite for Construction

Morton Abramowitz
Heather Hurlburt
| Aug 29, 2007
Nation-building always looks so easy on paper. Time to let reality be a harsh teacher.
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Commentary

North Caucasus of the Bizarre

Thomas de Waal | Nov 01, 2010
Where people think the United States is the source of Islamist violence and other problems inside Russia and on its borders.

Globalist TV

Jacob Heilbrunn | Aug 02, 2010
Christiane Amanpour debuted on “This Week” yesterday. Is she headed for her first big failure?

Don't Blame Russia

Peter Lavelle | Apr 01, 2010
Western commentators insinuating Moscow is somehow at fault for the subway bombings are completely wrong.
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Books & Reviews

Chechens I Used to Know

Thomas de Waal | Apr 19, 2011
The typical vision of Chechnya: a violence-filled land of terrorists fighting for independence from the Kremlin’s iron grip. The reality is a land torn between nationalism and a Russian civic identity.

Davos Man Meets Homo Balcanicus

Gordon N. Bardos | Sep 01, 2003
Sumantra Bose, Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 352 pp.

Arabian Nightmares

David Pryce-Jones | Mar 01, 2002
Bernard Lewis dissects the travails of the Muslim world and finds that the problem is not what Islam has done to Muslims, but what Muslims have done to Islam.

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