Publications

While most Americans were preoccupied with the holidays, Bowl games, and the Iowa caucus, Kenya had a presidential election. As African elections go, it went off pretty well. There were long lines, and a record number of people were...

12th Annual Templeton Lecture on Religion and World Affairs: My venturing into public discussions on the intersection between religion and politics is not something that I chose, but rather something I felt obliged to do after 9/11. Prior to...

The 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review Report asserted that the United States is engaged in a “long war” against Islamic terrorism, a war that is now centered in Iraq, Afghanistan, and potentially a nuclear Pakistan. Containing violent Islamic extremism, however, is just...

President Bush’s long-awaited and much-demanded personal engagement in the Israeli-Palestinian tangle has finally begun. Visiting Jerusalem and Ramallah in early January 2008, he announced his role: Nudge-in-Chief. Then, refreshed by visits to the wellsprings of Christianity, the President reiterated...

The Fall 2006 issue of Orbis was devoted largely to Eastern European democratization. When that volume was being assembled, many analysts – including myself – felt that the ‘‘Third Wave of Democratization,’’ described by Sam Huntington, still retained considerable momentum. In fact, as late as 2004, most of...

D.G. Hart, That Old-Time Religion in Modern America: Evangelical Protestantism in the Twentieth Century, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2002, 246 pp., $14.95; D.G. Hart, Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the Age of Billy Graham, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker...

This paper refers to the original, fully-sourced paper: John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, ‘‘The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,’’ Faculty Research Working Paper Series, John F. Kennedy School of Government, March, 2006: Available at: https://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011. Read the full...

Abstract As trade-driven growth and prosperity redefine both the Chinese economy and the global competitive landscape, U.S. policy makers increasingly must ponder whether the Chinese leadership will seek new options and capabilities to protect its far-reaching oceanic lifelines. As...

Abstract Energy security has prompted China to turn its strategic gaze to the seas for the first time in six centuries. For now, Taiwan remains Beijing’s uppermost priority, but there are signs that Chinese leaders are already contemplating the...

Abstract Most interventions by outside forces to promote democracy in post-conflict states since WWII have failed. The most successful were in societies, such as Germany and Japan, featuring relatively high per capita GNP and diversified middle class economies. Among...