As featured in the IHT: Realism can lead the way out of our foreign-policy shambles. But first the camp’s heavyweights need to bridge the partisan
The United States should abandon its futile attempt to secure global hegemony in favor of a concert-of-power foreign-policy strategy.
Life in the state of nature may be "nasty, brutish and short," but states are not people, and Hobbes is not the ultra-realist he is made out to be.
You can't beat everyone. Make them join you.
Does China's military really threaten America's position in Asia? Not yet, but it still must be taken seriously.
Hans Morgenthau and Reinhold Niebuhr--the fathers of American realism--understood that good intentions do not excuse failure.
The quickest way to end unipolarity is to pursue unilateralism. An America that obeys international rules will strengthen its foundation of power and preserve its advantage.
What distinguishes "democratic globalism" --the target of Francis Fukuyama's attack-- from the author's own "democratic realism"? The second chooses its battles more carefully.
Symbolism matters. The great powers know this, and their military architecture reflects it.
Harvey Mansfield, E.O. Wilson, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Robin Fox, Robert J. Samuelson and Joseph S. Nye