George W. Bush Articles

Leading Blindly across a Minefield

Dimitri K. Simes
Paul J. Saunders
| Jan 02, 2013
The international system is at a transformative moment. Yet President Obama has failed to set a direction for America.

The Folly of Nation Building

Amitai Etzioni | Jun 28, 2012
War is costly. Nation building is costlier. And nation-building projects almost never succeed, as this analysis demonstrates.

American Jihad

Bruce Hoffman | Apr 20, 2010
Al-Qaeda has accomplished the unthinkable: establishing an embryonic recruitment, radicalization and operational capacity on our shores. Our current strategy risks another 9/11.

A Subversive on a Hill

Lawrence Freedman | May 07, 2009
With America mired in two wars and our economy in shambles, the chorus of declinists has returned. But the United States will endure because it is an elastic power.

Ambushed on the Potomac

Richard Perle | Jan 21, 2009
One of America’s best-known neoconservatives gives his take on what went wrong over the past eight years, the role of the State Department in hijacking Bush’s foreign policy and why 50 million conspiracy theorists have it wrong.

The Legend of a Democracy Promoter

Amy Zegart | Sep 16, 2008
George W. Bush will not be judged kindly by history. But make no mistake: his freedom agenda will endure in the next administration and beyond.

Foreign Policy, Meet the People

Robert Y. Shapiro
Yaeli Bloch-Elkon
| Sep 02, 2008
Partisanship used to stop at the water’s edge. But times have changed; the U.S. electorate is now deeply divided—and not just on domestic-policy prescriptions. Facing a rift among the masses greater than that spawned by either the war in Korea or

McCain's Choice

Derek Chollet
James M. Goldgeier
| Jul 02, 2008
Neoconservatives and realists are battling to set the GOP’s foreign-policy agenda—and the future of American diplomacy hangs in the balance.

What Resource Wars?

David G. Victor | Nov 12, 2007
Classic resource wars are good material for Hollywood screenwriters. They rarely occur in the real world.

Apocalypse Later

John Mueller | Nov 12, 2007

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