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Hans Morgenthau

Spengler's Ominous Prophecy

Robert W. Merry | Jan 02, 2013
An interbellum German intellectual's work is a powerful warning to Americans about the perils of our interventionist foreign-policy trajectory.

Mind the Gap

Daniel W. Drezner | Jan 03, 2007
Why policymaking elites and foreigners alike distrust the judgment of Americans.

What Hobbes Really Said

Noel Malcolm | Sep 01, 2005
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.

The Ethics of Realism

John C. Hulsman
Anatol Lieven
| Jun 01, 2005
Hans Morgenthau and Reinhold Niebuhr--the fathers of American realism--understood that good intentions do not excuse failure.

Letters

Francis Fukuyama
Ian Rainey
Mike Roskin
Gary Schmitt
George Modelski
John M. Owen IV
Eric Chenoweth
Kenneth Minogue
Max Singer
| Dec 01, 2004
Francis Fukuyama, Ian Rainey, Mike Roskin, Gary Schmitt, George Modelski, John M. Owen, IV, Eric Chenoweth, Kenneth Minogue and Max Singer.

Inside the Cave: The Banality of I.R. Studies

James Kurth | Sep 01, 1998
In general, the landscape of international relations thinking in the United States is a view of a great American desert with a few refreshing and enlivening oases. Here's how to improve it.
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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.

How the GOP Lost National Security

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Dec 13, 2012
Republicans abandoned Reagan's optimistic pragmatism for their own brand of idealism.
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Blogs

You Gotta Serve Somebody

Benjamin H. Friedman | Jan 04, 2011
Think tanks are inherently biased and political. Caveat emptor.

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