Just How Likely Is Another World War?
A century ago this month, Europeans stood on the brink of a war so devastating that it forced historians to create a new category: “World War.” None of the leaders at the time could imagine the wastel
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The Middle East at a Tipping Point
It's almost Shakespearean. Since the day he arrived in Washington, Barack Obama’s defining foreign-policy passion has been to get the United States out of Iraq. As president, he had done that.
All in the Family The Dulleses, the Bundys, and the End of the Establishment
Who caused the Cold War?
Response to Six Critics
In this essay I respond to commentators on Ethics for Enemies, including (1) Caspar Hare on torture and other harms imposed on an agent after his act, (2) Suzanne Uniacke on conceptual issues related
Ready for Hillary Clinton?
The seismic shocks rocking the Middle East this week — renewed war in Iraq, an emerging radical Sunni Caliphate, and a possible independent Kurdistan — remind us anew that, before politicians jump int
D-Day's meaning
Seventy years later, it is what they managed to do here that is still so striking and inspiring.
Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age
Why, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise?
Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt
Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to render it promising terrain for a politics of radical redist
Economic Origins of Democratic Breakdown? The Redistributive Model and the Postcolonial State
From Aristotle to Acemoglu and Robinson, scholars have argued that democracy possesses powerful redistributive impulses, and imperils itself accordingly.
Obama Needs to Reset his International Strategy
For a president with impressive foreign policy successes in his first term, Barack Obama has had a difficult year and a half on the global stage since his reelection.
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