With the most diverse society in the world, India can serve as a model to the West in its struggles to reconcile liberal democracy with Islam.
The antiliberal defenders of civilization—resisting the Ground Zero mosque—are wrong. Liberalism still offers the best hope for combating extremism.
Declarations of conservatism's demise after the 2008 election were greatly exaggerated. As the opposition, American conservatives are in their element—can they draw upon their intellectual tradition to solve what ails America?
The promotion of democracy is the centerpiece of Bush's foreign policy, but the president has yet to define democracy.
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.
International law is rapidly evolving a direction thaat threatens American sovereignty. With careful attention, however, the United States can mold the law to its advantage.
Realists, neoconservatives and the Great Intramural Debate: who speaks for a conservative foreign policy?
Can History be ending if Science is not? An essay on the tenth anniversary of the publication of "The End of History?"
The problem set the West by the Yugoslav wars between 1991 and 1995 was at bottom a simple one: whether to intervene on the ground to defeat the Serb forces in Croatia and Bosnia, and then stay.
The French understanding of the "national interest," epitomized by De Gaulle's thinking, reminds realists of the necessity of reflection on national identity.