Political realism Books & Reviews

Report and Retort: Man of Steel, Re-forged

Geoffrey Roberts | Sep 05, 2007
Geoffrey Roberts, the author of Stalin's Wars, responds to Andrew J. Bacevich's review of the book in the September/October issue of The National Interest.

Man of Steel, Re-forged

Andrew J. Bacevich | Aug 29, 2007
Geoffrey Roberts treads through morally hazardous territory portraying Stalin as a great statesman.

Doctrinal Faith

Colin Dueck | May 01, 2007
Unflinching loyalty to the Bush Doctrine leads Robert Kaufman astray in his study of American foreign policy—and Truman, Reagan and Bush do not make a three-of-kind.

Field Marshal McNamara

Andrew J. Bacevich | May 01, 2007
Managing the Pentagon and managing wars are two different things, a lesson Robert McNamara learned the hard way.

Kennan, Character and Country

Sean R. Singer | Apr 26, 2007
John Lukacs offers an intimate portrait of one of America's great strategists in George Kennan.

Big Ideas, Big Problems

Stefan Halper | Mar 01, 2007
Policy decisions suffer when the rational center remains silent and catchphrases take over the debate.

T for Terrorist

Nicholas J. Xenakis | Jun 01, 2006
Hollywood romanticizes terror - Nir Rosen exposes it.

Killing to Make a Killing

J. Peter Pham | Sep 01, 2005
Suicide terrorism may be more rational than meets the eye.

Contact: The Politics of Migration

Jeremy Black | Sep 01, 2002
Impressive historical scholarship on migration cannot save Professor Hoerder from the miasma of current academic fashions.

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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