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What London’s Underground Tells You About Grand Strategy
I haven't blogged in a few days because I've been having a fascinating but very busy trip through the United Kingdom. My visits to Cambridge, the London School of Economics (LSE), and the European...
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U.S. Middle East Strategy: Back to Balancing
As I promised in my last post, today I want to offer a somewhat different view of U.S. strategy in the Middle East. I've been traveling for the past 10 days, giving talks at several venues in the...
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What’s Really at Stake in the Iranian Nuclear Deal
The interim nuclear deal with Iran is an important step forward, and the various negotiating teams can be justly proud of their achievement. Far be it from me to be a killjoy at this rare moment of...
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Top 10 Things I’m Thankful for This Year
People like me really shouldn't complain about anything, at least not at the personal level. I've been extraordinarily lucky from birth, and most misfortunes I've experienced have been self-inflicted....
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How Long Will China Tolerate America’s Role in Asia?
What's the BIG question? If you were trying to predict the course and character of world politics for the next 50 years or so, what question would you like to know the answer to today? It's easy to...
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The Embarrassing Debate Over the ‘War on Terror’
Are you as frustrated as I am by the whole discussion of terrorism in U.S. national security discourse? Given the billions of dollars that have been spent trying to protect Americans from terrorists...
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The New Foreign Policy Sobriety
FP colleague Dan Drezner has a good post up on the recent Council on Foreign Relations/Pew poll of U.S. attitudes toward foreign policy, which shows a wholly unsurprising decline in American...
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How Not to Get Fresh Thinking on U.S. Foreign Policy
Over at the venerable Washington Post (which as far as I know is not being delivered by drone -- yet!), David Ignatius had an interesting piece calling for a fresh look at foreign threats. Here's the...
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