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Why Anglos Lead

Lawrence Mead | Dec 01, 2005
It's no accident of history that Anglo societies dominate the world order.

Migration and the Dynamics of Empire

James Kurth | Mar 01, 2003
Do all roads lead to the new (American) Rome? The imperial task has always been affected by the movement of peoples. It still is.

Continental Divides

Josef Joffe | Mar 01, 2003
It took awhile--more than a dozen years, in point of fact--but the natural tendency in international politics for states to balance against the power of a hegemon has emerged. In western Europe, of all places.

Imperial Temptations

Jack Snyder | Mar 01, 2003
The U.S. military budget is greater than those of the next 14 countries combined. Yet Americans face a greater risk of terrorist attack than ever before. This situation fosters a sense of vulnerability that makes Americans hyperalert and predispos

The Scandal of U.S.-Saudi Relations

Daniel Pipes | Dec 01, 2002
Excessive deference toward Saudi Arabia undermines U.S. national interests, and the basic reason for it is none too pretty.

Normative Shift

Coral Bell | Dec 01, 2002
Social values change, and international norms change with them. A look at global issues and crises through the lens of "normative shift".
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Commentary

Papal Bull

Jacob Heilbrunn | Apr 13, 2010
First Mother Teresa. Then Henry Kissinger. Now the pope. What is Christopher Hitchens’ problem?

Blogs

A British Wedding

Jacob Heilbrunn | Nov 17, 2010
It's up to the recently engaged Prince William—stiff upper lip and all that—to rehab the monarchy.

Books & Reviews

Power, Wealth and Wisdom

David Calleo | Jun 01, 2003
Is the United States really as strong and wise, and "Old Europe" as weak and wooly-headed, as many American foreign policy pundits and practitioners think? Another way to read Transatlantic realities.

A Matter of Writing Life and Death

Michael P. McDonald | Dec 01, 2002
Primo Levi's biographers offer no improvement on the original, whose unabridged voice we need to heed more than ever.

Capital Ideas

Harold James | Sep 01, 2002
A look at the poverty of some contending economic fundamentalisms.
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