Chechnya Articles

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.

Liberté, Fraternité . . . Modernité?

The National Interest | Jul 01, 2007
As part of a new series expressing the views of foreign policy thinkers around the world, France's new president discusses Franco-American relations, the European Union's future and the Middle East.

Notes from the Balkans

Gordon N. Bardos | Jul 01, 2007
The United States should not balk at getting more deeply involved in the volatile Balkans: a well-crafted foreign policy could yield real results.

Protecting Kosovo at the Expense of New York

Dimitri K. Simes | Sep 26, 2006
In his blog Subjective Evaluation, Dimitri K. Simes disputes former President Clinton's assertion that his administration

China's Yugoslav Nightmare

Christopher Marsh
Nikolas K. Gvosdev
| Jun 01, 2006
Kosovo may be far far away from China-but its fate is on Beijing's mind.

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