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Multilateralism

Delusions of Indispensability

The notion that America is the world's "indispensable nation" is hardly questioned, even as it fosters strategic overreach.

Left-Out Legislature

The new Democratic Congress will find it has only a limited role to play in foreign policy.

Containing Europe

America and Europe compete to influence the international system. The U.S. response should be a new formulation of an old strategy.

Two Kinds of Internationalism

What Europeans condemn as unilateralism is in fact traditional postwar internationalism. As Lockeans, Americans prefer it to transnationalism because it's democratic.

The Other Orientalism: China's Islamist Problem

Three years ago, China was exporting revolution; now it faces a rising tide of Islamism, both without and within. Xinjiang may become China's Chechnya.

The New Cuba Divide

An unexpected alliance of farmers, northern liberals and western conservatives is emerging to challenge the U.S. political status quo on Cuba.

Books & Reviews

The Best Defense

Can John Mearsheimer's analysis of "offensive realism" explain or guide U.S. foreign policy? Better, perhaps, than the author realizes.

Kaplan's War

Robert Kaplan advocates a pagan ethos for American statesmen in the 21st century, but not all pagans think alike.

The Four Schoolmasters

Walter Russell Mead's new book deploys the ideas and heirs of Hamilton, Wilson, Jefferson and Jackson to illuminate the future of U.S. foreign policy.

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June 18, 2013