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Ennui Becomes Us

Randall L. Schweller | Dec 16, 2009
Chaos and randomness abound. The increasing disorder of our world will lead to a sort of global ennui mixed with a disturbingly large dose of individual extremism and dogmatic posturing by states.

Voting Blind

Justine A. Rosenthal
Dimitri K. Simes
| Sep 03, 2008
John McCain and Barack Obama are busily offering foreign-policy platitudes on the campaign trail, mostly about spreading freedom, working with allies and hunting down terrorists. But what exactly would they do if elected? Digging ourselves out of

Conflicts Without Borders

Stefan Wolff | Apr 25, 2008
How to contain the virus of ethnic conflict.

Staying Alive

Ted Galen Carpenter | Feb 29, 2008
Is a state by any other name still a state? Nations’ risky operations to maintain de facto status.

A Realist Symposium: Partisans Reviewed

Derek Chollet
Grover G. Norquist
Dov S. Zakheim
Dimitri K. Simes
| Sep 13, 2007
Responding to Dimitri K. Simes’s assertion that we aren’t having a real debate over foreign policy, Derek Chollet argues the Democrats are providing genuine alternatives; Grover G. Norquist looks at the structural reasons inhibiting both parties f

Appetite for Construction

Morton Abramowitz
Heather Hurlburt
| Aug 29, 2007
Nation-building always looks so easy on paper. Time to let reality be a harsh teacher.
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Commentary

Immigration and Americanization

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | Apr 23, 2013
The Boston bombings resurrect an old debate about whether new entrants should be injected with U.S. cultural values.

If We Won't Save Syria, Save the Syrians

Morton Abramowitz | Mar 25, 2013
The refugee streams are an urgent humanitarian concern that demands U.S. action.

Europe Hides Immigration Fears behind Climate Change

Vaughan C. Turekian
Paul J. Saunders
| Jul 13, 2011
Is the concern about concentrations of greenhouse gasses or concentrations of foreigners?
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Blogs

The Balkan Human Tragedy Continues

Ted Galen Carpenter | Nov 10, 2011
Washington is not offering foreign aid to Balkan refugees. It is offering reparations for helping displace them in the first place.

Books & Reviews

Davos Man Meets Homo Balcanicus

Gordon N. Bardos | Sep 01, 2003
Sumantra Bose, Bosnia After Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 352 pp.

Arabian Nightmares

David Pryce-Jones | Mar 01, 2002
Bernard Lewis dissects the travails of the Muslim world and finds that the problem is not what Islam has done to Muslims, but what Muslims have done to Islam.

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