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Partisans, Reviewed

Jacob Heilbrunn | May 25, 2010
Lawrence Kaplan’s departure from World Affairs is a worrying sign that intellectuals are focusing on petty sectarian feuds instead of explaining the great issues of our time.

Lobbyists

Doug Bandow | Mar 08, 2010
The Armenian genocide dispute is just the latest example of the negative influence of ethnic lobbies on U.S. foreign policy.

Credibility Gap

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Nov 17, 2009
If Obama can’t deliver on closing Gitmo, why should foreign governments trust his promises on free trade and climate change?

Nasty Nationalism

E. Wayne Merry | Aug 28, 2008
Western commentators are focusing on the here and now of the Tbilisi-Moscow conflict. But it has deep roots in the nationalist polices of Georgia’s first post-independence president.

Jacob's Jottings: The Case of Fouad Ajami

Jacob Heilbrunn | Jan 07, 2008
Five years after the start of the Iraq War, most of its early champions have yet to be held to account for its spectacular failures.

Is Putin's Russia Fascist?

Alexander J. Motyl | Dec 03, 2007
Analyzing the nature of Vladimir Putin’s regime yields some valuable insights into the past, present and future of Russia.

McCain: European or American Conservative?

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Jun 15, 2007
Is the senior senator from Arizona laying the groundwork for a reinvigorated transatlantic relationship with his fellow-conservatives across the pond?

Georgia: High Stakes for US Credibility

Zeyno Baran | Nov 12, 2003
Just as President George W.

Coalitions Part II

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Oct 29, 2003
The second of the "grand coalitions" has entered the fray to contest the direction of foreign policy under the Bush Administration...

Magazine Politics

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Oct 22, 2003
Magazine editorials like to present a simple world of good and evil, of right and wrong.

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