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…
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…
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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Congressman Dennis Kucinich and the Power of One
A vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on Dennis Kucinich’s ‘Privileged Resolution’ calling for a pull-out from Afghanistan gives realists an opportunity to find their voice. Is anyone interested?
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Henry Kissinger from Diplomacy (1994) to Does America Need a Foreign Policy? (2001) Part Three
This is the third of a three-part essay examining Henry Kissinger’s writings on how to manage American foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. Revised 5 March 2010
Henry Kissinger from Diplomacy (1994) to Does America Need a Foreign Policy? (2001) Part Two
This is the second of a three-part essay examining Henry Kissinger’s writings on how to manage American foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. Revised 5 March 2010.
Realism and Revisionism: Henry Kissinger from Diplomacy (1994) to Does America Need a Foreign Policy? (2001). Part One
This is the first of a three-part essay examining Henry Kissinger’s writings on how to manage American foreign policy in the post-Cold War period.
2009 Nobel Prize for Peace, Fool’s Gold: Zbigniew Brzezinski ‘From Hope to Audacity’ in Foreign Affairs, January-February 2010
In Stalinist Russia there was a saying that it is never too late to be shot. In the USA it is clearly never too late to practice craven sycophancy. In his latest article in Foreign Affairs magazine, Zbnigniew Brzezinski gives us the proof.
Francis Fukuyama, from The End of History to After the Neocons
As a young researcher, Francis Fukuyama changed the landscape of American political science discourse by his remarkably well timed and well argued description of a new paradigm to inform foreign policy in The End of History (1992). For our analysis of this seminal work and of the author’s later writings, read on…
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The Strange Case of Yulia Tymoshenko’s 2007 Article in Foreign Affairs
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko may not have an American spouse to help her with the fine points of grammar when she deals with the American media like her domestic rival Viktor Yushchenko or the head of state of Ukraine’s great regional friend, Georgia, but her wonderfully American point of view as well as splendid syntax and vocabulary shone through in an article on ‘Containing Russia’ which was taken up uncritically by the editors of Foreign Affairs magazine for its May-June 2007 issue. To find out why, read on…
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Gilbert Doctorow 