The New Antidemocrats
Abstract Democratization has lately received new rounds of criticism from antidemocrats on both the right and the left. As...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
The New Antidemocrats
A nation must think before it acts.
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Preemption, Unilateralism, and Hegemony: The American Tradition?
Abstract Historian John Lewis Gaddis has found precedent for the current war on terror in early American history, arguing...
A Smaller Military To Fight the War on Terror
Abstract The defense budget can be reduced and the U.S. military downsized because (1) the nation-state threat environment is...
A Balanced Force Structure To Achieve a Liberal World Order
Abstract In addition to preexisting threats such as the rise of China, the United States now faces a protracted...
One Nation Divisible: Samuel Huntington’s Jeremiad on the American Future
Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity. By Samuel P. Huntington. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.)...
Sovereignty as Responsibility
Abstract This article examines the development of a new normative principle of international order, sovereignty as responsibility; its communitarian...
Humanitarian Intervention After Iraq: Legal Ideals vs. Military Realities
Abstract The theory of humanitarian intervention has received new attention since the humanitarian crises of the 1990s and the...
Uganda and U.S. Foreign Policy
Abstract Washington’s relationships with the “leveraged allies” preferred by realists—those countries that have little choice but to follow America’s...
Working with the European Union
Abstract The past year saw growing uncertainty about the future of the European Union. Whether it becomes weaker or...
What Is Democracy? Liberal Institutions and Stability in Changing Societies
Abstract Is it possible to export democracy? That question underlies current U.S. foreign policy, and answering it requires an...