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View ArticleKissinger Doesn’t Have One, Either
President Barack Obama drew criticism from our ruling class for acknowledging that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for putting an end to the Islamic State that calls for American blood by internetting...
View ArticleThe Path Not Taken
Books reviewed in this essay: Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy, by Barry R. Posen. Cornell University Press 2014 America In Retreat: The New Isolationism and the Coming Global...
View ArticleKissinger’s Quest for Order
Henry Kissinger has drawn on his experience of statecraft to explore the contradictions of world order, and elucidate how statesmen keep international relations from becoming an anarchic struggle....
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