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Kenneth Waltz

Waltzing to Armageddon?

A new edition of a well-known book on nuclear proliferation retains its rationalist fallacies.

Mentor for a Hegemon

Hamilton's legacy is all around us. So why has his wisdom--particularly as concerns foreign affairs--been discounted?

Rethinking N+1

Albert Wohlstetter's 1961 "N+1" article reminds us that potential proliferators are not few but many, as most states have been empowered by economic and technical developments to build quickly high-leverage weaponry with impressive strategic reach

De Gaulle and the Death of Europe

The French understanding of the "national interest," epitomized by De Gaulle's thinking, reminds realists of the necessity of reflection on national identity.

Blogs

Henry Farrell Should Know Better

Why Farrell's caricature of realist thought is incomplete, incorrect and downright silly.

Gary Schmitt Tries to Reinvent the Wheel

As long as the United States guarantees their security, Europeans are going to keep their defense budgets low.

Books & Reviews

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying

From the bikini to the doomsday clock, with the advent of nuclear weapons everything around us seemed to change. Contrarian political scientist John Mueller takes issue with this conventional view of the Atomic Age.

The Best Defense

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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February 13, 2012