Foreign relations of Japan

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

Michael Lind | May 01, 2007

The United States should abandon its futile attempt to secure global hegemony in favor of a concert-of-power foreign-policy strategy.

Christopher A. Preble | Sep 01, 2006

Given its competing commitments, Washington must reduce its military patronage. Japan, with its economic strength, must fortify capabilities.

Noel Malcolm | Sep 01, 2005

Life in the state of nature may be "nasty, brutish and short," but states are not people, and Hobbes is not the ultra-realist he is made out to be.

Richard N. Haass | Sep 01, 2005

You can't beat everyone. Make them join you.

| Jun 01, 2005

Hans Morgenthau and Reinhold Niebuhr--the fathers of American realism--understood that good intentions do not excuse failure.

Ted Galen Carpenter | Apr 07, 2010

China’s growing strength is making its neighbors nervous—and less fearful of a fully rearmed Japan.

Daniel W. Drezner | Jun 17, 2009

Americans shouldn’t be alarmed by the BRIC summit. The body is just another toothless international grouping, not an attempt to exert hard power.

Morton Abramowitz | May 01, 2009

Instead of squabbling over trade and deficit issues, America, Japan and China should work together by creating a trilateral forum.

Paul R. Pillar | Aug 18, 2010

It's important to be aware of how our nationalist views are perceived by the rest of the world. Japan's Yasukuni shrine is a case in point.