Jack F. Matlock, Jr. Superpower Illusions. An expanded analysis

In his latest book drawing upon his experiences as key adviser to President Ronald Reagan on U.S. policy to the USSR then as ambassador to Moscow in the period of Perestroika, 1987-1991, Jack Matlock nurtures the false hope that educating the public about the real reasons of the collapse of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe and the disintegration of the USSR itself will help bring American foreign policy back to pragmatism and moderation.

 

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G. John Ikenberry, Liberal Internationalism of the Next Generation: Liberal Order & Imperial Ambition (2005)

 

Princeton University Professor G. John Ikenberry is not a household name and his books on the theory of International Relations are written for scholars, not the general public. Yet he is arguably one of the most important and, possibly influential, thinkers of the post-Cold War period

 

 

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La continuité ou la rupture? Who Represents the Obama Administration in Belgium?

Est-ce que la diplomatie de M. Obama représente vraiment une rupture avec la politique hégémonique et unilatéraliste de George W. Bush ? Regardons les données des deux ambassadeurs américains actuellement installés à Bruxelles pour mieux répondre à cette question.

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Stanley Hoffmann and Heroic Idealism: from World Disorders to Chaos and Violence in the company of Gulliver Unbound. Part Two

 

Hoffmann is a towering intellect who has substantially shaped American political discourse even if his name and works are not widely known or popular in the general public. Part Two on his post-Cold War writings follows below…

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Stanley Hoffmann and Heroic Idealism: from World Disorders to Chaos and Violence in the company of Gulliver Unbound. Part One

 

Hoffmann is a towering intellect who has substantially shaped American political discourse even if his name and works are not widely known or popular in the general public. For an examination of his post-Cold War writings, read on…

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Charles A. Kupchan, ‘Nato’s Final Frontier: Why Russia Should Join the Atlantic Alliance,’ Foreign Affairs, May-June 2010: What only your good friends will tell you

Appearing as a solitary voice dealing with  ‘Russia in NATO’ in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, Professor Kupchan’s article suffers from all the usual disadvantages of shadow boxing. Institutional reform of NATO deserves more round table discussions and public hearings if the decisions awaited this coming November are to be informed by rigorous expert argumentation and to avoid flaccid and self-congratulatory thinking within the box such as we have seen till now. To find out more, read on…

 

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Noam Chomsky: The Most Widely Read Dissident Voice on U.S. Foreign Policy

 

By any standard, Chomsky’s many works exposing the lies and deception of American imperial myths are inescapable reading for serious students of U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. In this essay we shall consider why his writings do not come in for scrutiny from academic scholars even as they attract a vast readership in the general public.

 

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