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Continental Drifts

Geoffrey Wheatcroft | Mar 02, 2009
America and the Continent may find themselves once again a united force to be reckoned with by the rest of the world. But the odds are grim.

Homeward Bound?

Ivan Eland | Jul 02, 2008
It’s time to rein in America’s crusading zeal and move toward a policy of restraint. We’re suffering from a bad case of foreign-policy overextension, and the only cure is taking a step back to reexamine our global role.

Beyond Left and Right

Alan Tonelson | Dec 01, 1993
Classifications such as interventionist and isolationist, hawk and dove, realist and idealist, and multilateralist and unilateralist do not make much sense in the absence of the Cold War's defining conditions.

Commentary

Not His Fault

Jacob Heilbrunn | Mar 18, 2010
Robert Kagan is wrong. Obama isn’t to blame for our issues with Europe and Israel—Europe and Israel are.

A Conversation Continued: Interventionism Is Dead

James G. Poulos | Aug 13, 2007
In response to Ivo Daalder and Robert Kagan’s recent Washington Post op-ed ,

Report and Retort: A Response to John Hulsman

Barak M. Seener | Aug 10, 2007
The following is part of an ongoing debate between Barak M. Seener and John C. Hulsman. Seener gets the last word here.
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Books & Reviews

America Under the Caesars

Michael Lind | Jun 28, 2010
Anti-interventionists allege our leaders traded a strong, austere republic for a weak and sprawling empire predicated on a military might that could not match our own ambitions. This narrative negates real threats and real victories.

Resisting the Charms of War

Christopher A. Preble | Jun 01, 2005
Andrew J. Bacevich laments American militarism.

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.

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