Mearsheimer and Walt fail to capture the realities of policy formation.
Mearsheimer and Walt should have included more field work in their research. Yet their book still deserves to be read and discussed.
Policy decisions suffer when the rational center remains silent and catchphrases take over the debate.
Energized Shi‘a represent a powerful challenge to Sunni extremism and jihadism.
There is no shortage of books on security and strategy in a world beset by terror. "Fortunately," writes Harvey Sicherman, "most are short."
Pedestrian books can sometimes serve salutary purposes.
When Isaiah Berlin died last November, there was a cascade of adulatory essays and obituaries, all of them well deserved. Yet there is a sense in which the wrong Berlin was being celebrated; or if not exactly the wrong Berlin then only a half of h
Gone is Churchill's "enigma wrapped in a mystery." Russia's media and many of its archives, along with its borders, have opened.
Michael Mandelbaum, The Dawn of Peace in Europe (New York: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1996)"We must fulfill the promise of our time: an undivided Europe of free nations.