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A Subversive on a Hill

Lawrence Freedman | May 07, 2009
With America mired in two wars and our economy in shambles, the chorus of declinists has returned. But the United States will endure because it is an elastic power.

Symposium: Great Powers in Wonderland

Harry Harding
Ali Ansari
Nikolas K. Gvosdev
David Shambaugh
Deepa Ollapally
Richard J. Samuels
Riordan Roett
Evelyn Goh
Hanns W. Maull
Henry R. Nau
| Feb 29, 2008
Whither American hegemony? A glimpse of the multipolar world to come.

Beyond American Hegemony

Michael Lind | May 01, 2007
The United States should abandon its futile attempt to secure global hegemony in favor of a concert-of-power foreign-policy strategy.

The Democratic Imperative

Adrian Karatnycky | Jun 01, 2004
The world's democrats have joined forces, to the benefit of all involved.

Therapy's End

E. Wayne Merry | Dec 01, 2003
NATO died with the Soviet Union. Get over it.

America as European Hegemon

Christopher Layne | Jun 01, 2003
Despite broad acceptance of the view that the United States has been an "offshore balancer" with regard to Europe over the past several decades, the facts don't fit the theory--the facts of the past dozen years most particularly.
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Commentary

Pole Dancing

Andrew E. Title | Apr 17, 2008
Rising powers like China, Russia and India are moving up in the world. Will their ascendance come at the expense of the United States?

Brave Not-So-New World: A Case for Realism and Multilateralism

J. Peter Pham | Apr 07, 2004
Robert Cooper.

Blogs

Resets and Spheres of Influence

Ted Galen Carpenter | Oct 19, 2010
Surprise, Russia and China want their own spheres of influence. Condi Rice couldn't have been more wrong—the age of great-power politics is far from over.

Books & Reviews

A War, or Un-War?

Charles V. Peña
J. Peter Pham
| Oct 16, 2006
Experts Peña and Pham square off on Iraq.

Books: Some Unconventional Wisdom

J. Peter Pham | Sep 01, 2006
A review of The J Curve by Ian Bremmer and Winning the Un-War by Charles Peña.  Two authors turn their critical, discerning eye on the foibles of U.S. counter-terror and nation-building strategy. Just one offers a constructive course

Power Steering

Walter A. McDougall | Dec 01, 2002
Two optimistic portrayals of the international future--by political scientists Joseph Nye and Michael Mandelbaum--go under a historian's scalpel.
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