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BRIC Bust?

The very structural characteristics that launched the economic successes of Brazil, Russia, India, and China are now holding them back.

Panoramas
Republican Prudence

Four basic principles defined the Founders’ foreign policy. We need to re-learn them.

Panoramas
Conservative Internationalism

The old foreign policy “schools” debate is exhausted. We need a new synthesis.

Panoramas
Progressive Pragmatism

The Obama Administration represents the dawn of a new and superior conception of American foreign policy.

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Homo Americanus
On the Ragged Edge

Working abroad for the U.S. government in the darkest corners of human depravity can make a person very unwell.

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Reviews
Gendered Orientalism

Lila Abu-Lughod claims that the supposedly oppressed women of the Muslim world don’t need the help of the enlightened West. Turns out, she’s right.

Reviews
The Eclectic Brilliance of Edmund Phelps

A 2006 Nobel laureate in economics reaches across disciplines to explore the nature of innovation.

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Reviews
Rupertology

A lot of journalists love to hate Rupert Murdoch. One too many, perhaps?

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America Self-Contained? A Symposium
Leadership as a Last Resort

The United States has been punching well below its weight for five years, and that’s got to stop.

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America Self-Contained? A Symposium
Obama’s Day Isn’t Done

The President has good foreign policy instincts, but he needs to listen to the voices of experience both inside and outside his Administration.

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