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The New START treaty, which Russia ratified in late January, has stirred debate over the role of nuclear weapons in international politics. As Washington pressures both Iran and North Korea to abandon their nuclear ambitions, many U.S. commentators cling to the U.S. nuclear arsenal as a pillar of its international hegemony. They latch onto nuclear [...]
Over the past several months, the United States has confronted continually the problems of the Horn of Africa in the form of Somali pirates, political instability, and the rising threat of Al-Qaida. Daring rescues, supportive resolutions, and assassinations of terrorist leaders have formed the major part of the U.S. response. Although these decisive actions emerged [...]
Foreign policy inspiration often comes from unlikely places. In 1946 George Kennan, the painfully shy, little-known number two at the US Embassy in Moscow, articulated a concept – containment – that guided American policy toward the Soviet Union through the Cold War. During the Bush administration it was Paul Wolfowitz, the number two at the [...]