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Kenneth Waltz

Waltzing to Armageddon?

Marc Trachtenberg | Sep 01, 2002
A new edition of a well-known book on nuclear proliferation retains its rationalist fallacies.

De Gaulle and the Death of Europe

Daniel J. Mahoney | Jun 01, 1997
The French understanding of the "national interest," epitomized by De Gaulle's thinking, reminds realists of the necessity of reflection on national identity.

Commentary

Kenneth Waltz's Crucial Logic

James Joyner | May 16, 2013
Why the scholar's thought continues to have an enormous impact.

Kenneth Waltz and the Power of Pure Theory

Michael C. Desch | May 15, 2013
Waltz had a gift for rigorously linking the theoretical with the practical.

The Crisis of Realism

Jonathan Levine | Apr 05, 2013
Fading state power and the threat of a second nuclear age pose serious challenges.

Books & Reviews

The Best Defense

Barry R. Posen | Mar 01, 2002
Can John Mearsheimer's analysis of "offensive realism" explain or guide U.S. foreign policy? Better, perhaps, than the author realizes.

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