Foreign relations of the United States Books & Reviews

Stifling the Debate?

Stefan Halper | Aug 28, 2007
Perhaps the most important argument made by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in their new book concerns the impact of the lobby on the political discourse in the United States.

Missing the Point

Ben Fishman | Aug 27, 2007
Mearsheimer and Walt fail to capture the realities of policy formation.

Flawed but Still Important

Geoffrey Kemp | Aug 27, 2007
Mearsheimer and Walt should have included more field work in their research. Yet their book still deserves to be read and discussed.

Pride and Prejudice

Paul Hollander | Sep 01, 2004
Anti-Americanism takes many forms -- most of them unfair. But as long as it strives to be a City upon a Hill, America Must learn to live with it.

Imperialism: the Highest Stage of American Capitalism?

Gideon Rose | Mar 01, 2003
Andrew Bacevich's American Empire is really two books in one: one quite good, the other quite inexplicable.

Too Impressive to be Real

Mark Falcoff | Jun 01, 1998
Two biographies clarify questions about Sumner Welles' long and spectacular career

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