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Embassies at Risk

But beyond this business of walls, set-backs, and barbed wire lies a philosophical question: What kind of nation are we? Has America, like Rome, in its declining decades become a garrison state? What is the point of our diplomacy? While the safety

Tin Cup Diplomacy

We are again in the early stages of a new international system, but without a unifying challenge to raise foreign affairs resources much above 1 percent of the federal budget.

Commentary

Civil Defense

We need a hybrid civil-military organization for our reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan.

Books & Reviews

Too Impressive to be Real

Two biographies clarify questions about Sumner Welles' long and spectacular career

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May 27, 2012