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Council on Foreign Relations

A Realist Rally

Leslie H. Gelb | Sep 03, 2008
As featured in the IHT: Realism can lead the way out of our foreign-policy shambles. But first the camp’s heavyweights need to bridge the partisan

The President's Man

I.M. Destler | Jan 03, 2007
McGeorge Bundy’s honest reversal on Vietnam contrasts with the Bush team’s unwillingness to look back—or forward.

Letters

Christopher A. Preble
Justin Logan
Tad Daley
| Dec 01, 2005
Too often, the Beltway conventional wisdom emerges without careful scrutiny, before the hard questions have been asked.

India: Relevant at Last?

Owen Harries | Mar 01, 1997
The achievement of independence by the Indian subcontinent marked the effective end of the age of European imperialism.
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Commentary

Patience and the Currency Wars

Gary Clyde Hufbauer | Oct 27, 2010
The blunderbuss approach to U.S.-China economic relations makes no sense.

Afghanistan's Naysayers

Jacob Heilbrunn | Jul 19, 2010
Despite arguments to the contrary, Obama has no illusions about America's omnipotence in the war.

Courting China

Gary Clyde Hufbauer | Apr 12, 2010
To get Chinese cooperation on currency revaluation and Iran, Obama should refrain from criticizing Beijing’s greenhouse-gas problem.
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Blogs

Leslie Gelb's Prophecy

Jacob Heilbrunn | Dec 22, 2010
GOP opposition to New START has seriously damaged Republicans' foreign-policy credibility.

Books & Reviews

Machiavelli Revisited

Daniel W. Drezner | Mar 02, 2009
With great power comes great responsibility. But Washington is adrift and our country in search of a strategy. Foreign-policy heavyweight Les Gelb wittily channels a master to update the classic realpolitik definition of power.

The Four Schoolmasters

H. W. Brands | Dec 01, 2001
Walter Russell Mead's new book deploys the ideas and heirs of Hamilton, Wilson, Jefferson and Jackson to illuminate the future of U.S. foreign policy.

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