Image by Firdavs Kulolov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Foreign Affairs ran an "expert poll" on the question of whether "NATO enlargement was a mistake." Someone decided, for reasons that I expect.
It wasn't that long ago – maybe five or six years – that I last heard someone claim that Russia would never posses real soft power. After all, who could.
I think Matt misses the truly insidious follow through of this: I’ve been struck over the past three or four years by how many different Chinese people have expressed to.
My column this week calls for a more rigorous appraisal of US interests in Afghanistan, and gives some reasons why we're unlikely to see it: In other words, would it.
My WPR column this week is on grand strategy and muddling. In fact, there is no simple dichotomy opposing grand strategy and muddling through. The world is complex, and grand.
My latest WPR column is about ongoing political unrest in Haiti: Ideally, the U.S.-led intervention was meant to go down as a Western-hemisphere version of the 2005 tsunami relief operation,.
