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Thucydides

Tyranny for the Commons Man

Barry Schwartz | Jun 23, 2009
Six billion people are now sharing one planet, one water supply and limited energy resources with a grab-first-ask-questions-later mentality. But there is hope. New insights into human psychology can help manage everything from environmental negot

What Hobbes Really Said

Noel Malcolm | Sep 01, 2005
Life in the state of nature may be "nasty, brutish and short," but states are not people, and Hobbes is not the ultra-realist he is made out to be.

Achieving Oil Security: A Practical Proposal

Martin Feldstein | Nov 01, 2001
The key to U.S. energy security does not lie ultimately in the Middle East. Cutting domestic demand is critical to near-term American success--and it can be done without raising taxes.

Responses to Fukuyama

Harvey C. Mansfield
E.O. Wilson
Gertrude Himmelfarb
Robin Fox
Robert J. Samuelson
Joseph S. Nye
| Jun 01, 1999
Harvey Mansfield, E.O. Wilson, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Robin Fox, Robert J. Samuelson and Joseph S. Nye

Quantum Leap

Patrick Glynn | Mar 01, 1995
The new world of foreign policy is neither a unipolar world nor a multipolar world, but an integrated global system, in which the United States plays a central, but constantly tempered, role.

The Philosophy of 'Europe'

John Laughland | Mar 01, 1995
If the myth of destabilizing European nationalism continues to cast its spell over the decisions of Europe's political architects, then it will prove to be a self-fulfilling fantasy.
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Commentary

McCain's Fantasy League

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | May 03, 2007
If democracies share values and strategic interests, why, up to this point, have they been unable to work more closely together?

Reality is Contextual: Politics and Economics in the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union

Stephen Boyko | Apr 14, 2004
New books by Nikolas Gvosdev and Irakly Areshidze both view the same phenomenon-the development of two Newly Independent States (NIS) of the Former Soviet Union

Out of School

Adam Garfinkle | Sep 09, 2002
One of the admirable things about raspberries is that different sorts seem to get along pretty well with each other.

Books & Reviews

A Revisionist's Burden

H. W. Brands | Jun 30, 2009
Nowadays, history is regularly written by the victims, usually in service of a political agenda. Long-remembered slights poison political debate, often with violent consequences.

Kaplan's War

Mark Blitz | Mar 01, 2002
Robert Kaplan advocates a pagan ethos for American statesmen in the 21st century, but not all pagans think alike.

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