September-October 2014
In the absence of an overarching strategy, Obama's pragmatism in isolated cases doesn't build toward any larger strategic goals. Paul J. Saunders
The United Kingdom Independence Party and its leader, Nigel Farage, pose a dire threat to the British political establishment.
Without fundamental fiscal reform, the economies of the European periphery will be weak and increasingly subject to Teutonic domination.
America's cumbersome approach to interagency operations in the field urgently needs reform, centered around more powerful ambassadors and coordinated in-country policy design.
The force authorizations behind the Iraq War and the “war on terror” have both evolved in ways their authors never envisioned. Congress should repeal the former and significantly revise the latter.
Despite centuries of dire predictions, Russia isn't going anywhere.
NATO's current strategic framework might fail to deter further gains by Russia's green men.
International law has typically forbidden one or the other, seeing their combination as volatile. Yet current American foreign policy rests on both at once.
Reviews and Essays
The famed Communist historian had distinctly non-Marxist views of high culture. David A. Bell
A simplistic attempt to explain the rise of the modern American right. Geoffrey Kabaservice
In his new book World Order, the former Secretary of State offers a sweeping guide to the rise of the modern state system, and warns that a stable balance of power remains as crucial now as in the era of Westphalia. Jacob Heilbrunn
Two of Eastern Europe's bravest dissidents on the temptation of disillusionment after liberation saw a wave of greed, corruption, hedonism and cynicism.
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