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Russia, Georgia, and IR Theory (Part I)

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On August 12, 2008
Moscow McDonalds.Tblisi McDonalds.Sorry, Tom.And on IR Theories that should be taken more seriously, Chris Bertram notes both Russia and Georgia currently rank at 7, the highest democratic score, in the Polity Index. As Chris allows, this produces some difficult questions for the Polity Index, but...

It's difficult for me to express just how moronic this column is:THIS MAY sound like an extreme conclusion but, as Ari Bar Yossef, retired lieutenant-colonel and administrator of the Knesset's.

Sunday Book Review: The Great Experiment

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On May 11, 2008
The Great Experiment, by Strobe Talbott, is one in a broad family of books written by former executive branch officials about their experiences with power. These books often contain some theoretical noodling, bits and pieces of biographical detail, a few mildly interesting anecdotes within a...

A Momentary Lapse of Hegemonic Decline

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On February 1, 2008
The Parag Khanna excerpt continues to produce some interesting discussion. Yglesias:In 1945-46 the U.S. economy completely dominated the world, contributing some absurdly high share of total output. Every other significant country on earth had been completely destroyed by war, and we had a monopoly on...

George Kennan RIP

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On March 17, 2005
1904-2005. George Kennan advocated a sensible approach to the Soviet Union, one that recognized the dangers but refused to inflate them. He was one of our last links with the foreign policy generation of World War II and its immediate aftermath. He will be missed.
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