Political science Books & Reviews

Machiavelli Revisited

Daniel W. Drezner | Mar 02, 2009
With great power comes great responsibility. But Washington is adrift and our country in search of a strategy. Foreign-policy heavyweight Les Gelb wittily channels a master to update the classic realpolitik definition of power.

The Tao of the Arab Center

Paul R. Pillar | Oct 30, 2008
The Bush administration may have gotten a lot wrong, but there is still hope for America’s policy in the Middle East. Three books shed some light on how the United States can get over Iraq.

League of Demagoguery

Anatol Lieven | Sep 02, 2008
We live in a world where the failures of a botched freedom agenda are everpresent. Yet no one in the foreign-policy establishment of either party seems to understand the changing realities of international affairs—or articulate coherent policy alt

Unsage Advice

David B. Rivkin, Jr. | Apr 25, 2008
With the campaign season heating up, David Rivkin says that new books by Madeleine Albright and Zbigniew Brzezinski might not provide the soundest advice.

Pride and Prudence

Jacob Heilbrunn | Feb 29, 2008
A spate of books provides a welcome opportunity to reassess Nixon.

The Changing of the Guard

Rajan Menon | Jan 02, 2008
Rajan Menon evaluates the latest works on the future of East Asia and its impact on the world. Is Pax Americana in decline, and are we on the verge of a Pax Sinica?

FDR's Children

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Jan 02, 2008
The Democratic rebirth of the virtue of FDR's realism.

État Terrible

Andrew C. Kuchins | Aug 29, 2007
We see ourselves as an insular nation, but other countries know otherwise—and are attempting to undermine U.S. global hegemony.

Voices in the Wilderness

Dimitri K. Simes | Aug 29, 2007
Notwithstanding the book's shortcomings, Mearsheimer and Walt do perform an important service in pointing out how difficult it is to produce pragmatic decisions based on national interest.

Stifling the Debate?

Stefan Halper | Aug 28, 2007
Perhaps the most important argument made by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in their new book concerns the impact of the lobby on the political discourse in the United States.

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