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Tyranny for the Commons Man

Barry Schwartz | Jun 23, 2009
Six billion people are now sharing one planet, one water supply and limited energy resources with a grab-first-ask-questions-later mentality. But there is hope. New insights into human psychology can help manage everything from environmental negot

Fate and Freedom in History

John Patrick Diggins | Sep 01, 2002
The historical revisionists of the Sixties have been the last to adapt to the end of the Cold War: case in point, Eric Foner.

Achieving Oil Security: A Practical Proposal

Martin Feldstein | Nov 01, 2001
The key to U.S. energy security does not lie ultimately in the Middle East. Cutting domestic demand is critical to near-term American success--and it can be done without raising taxes.

Quantum Leap

Patrick Glynn | Mar 01, 1995
The new world of foreign policy is neither a unipolar world nor a multipolar world, but an integrated global system, in which the United States plays a central, but constantly tempered, role.

The Philosophy of 'Europe'

John Laughland | Mar 01, 1995
If the myth of destabilizing European nationalism continues to cast its spell over the decisions of Europe's political architects, then it will prove to be a self-fulfilling fantasy.

A Tired Anarchy

Charles H. Fairbanks | Mar 01, 1995
Russia, for our officials and foreign policy leaders, is an increasingly scary and strange place. We don't seem to know where we are or what we are doing.
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Commentary

McCain's Fantasy League

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | May 03, 2007
If democracies share values and strategic interests, why, up to this point, have they been unable to work more closely together?

Reality is Contextual: Politics and Economics in the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union

Stephen Boyko | Apr 14, 2004
New books by Nikolas Gvosdev and Irakly Areshidze both view the same phenomenon-the development of two Newly Independent States (NIS) of the Former Soviet Union

Books & Reviews

A Revisionist's Burden

H. W. Brands | Jun 30, 2009
Nowadays, history is regularly written by the victims, usually in service of a political agenda. Long-remembered slights poison political debate, often with violent consequences.

Unreal Realism

Terence Emmons | Mar 01, 2000
A realist with a penchant for being spectacularly mistaken.

How the West Was Spun

John O'Sullivan | Mar 01, 1999
Christopher Coker's Twilight of the West looks at present geopolitical trends and predicts the West's dissolution; David Gress, in From Plato to Nato, sees them as yet another episode in the long struggle between the mainstream W

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