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Stephen M. Walt: A bandwagon for offshore balancing? - Foreign Policy (blog)

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A few weeks ago, I mentioned that "offshore balancing" was a grand strategy whose time had come. My evidence at the time was the fact that Tom Friedman of the New York Times, previously an enthusiastic proponent of using American power to police the ...

Stephen M. Walt: Thanks! - Foreign Policy (blog)

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I'm pleased (and a mite chagrined) to announce that my article "The End of the American Era" won the readers' poll over at The Browser. My thanks to any of you who went online and voted for it. Needless to say, winning an online poll like this doesn't ...

Giving thanks, but for how long? - Foreign Policy (blog)

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It's Thanksgiving once again, and it's become something of a ritual for me to record what I'm feeling grateful for each year. For starters, I want to thank the various people who responded to my request for advice on "policy analysis" yesterday, ...

Stephen M. Walt: Giving thanks, but for how long? - Foreign Policy (blog)

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[image error] Stephen M. Walt: Giving thanks, but for how long?
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It's Thanksgiving once again, and it's become something of a ritual for me to record what I'm feeling grateful for each year. For starters, I want to thank the various people who responded to my request for advice on "policy analysis" yesterday, ...

Policy analysis in global affairs: What should my students read? - Foreign Policy (blog)

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One of the components I'm adding this year is a session explicitly focused on the topic of "policy analysis in international and global affairs." By "policy analysis," I mean the method (or for some, the art) of analyzing concrete policy problems and ...

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Stephen M. Walt: Policy analysis in global affairs: What should my students read? - Foreign Policy (blog)

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One of the components I'm adding this year is a session explicitly focused on the topic of "policy analysis in international and global affairs." By "policy analysis," I mean the method (or for some, the art) of analyzing concrete policy problems and ...

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Sino-American rivalry: A Chinese view - Foreign Policy (blog)

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There's a must-read op-ed in today's New York Times by Yan Xuetong, the dean of the School of Modern International Relations as Tsinghua University. Writing as a self-described "realist," Yan acknowledges that the emerging Sino-American competition is ...

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Stephen M. Walt: Sino-American rivalry: A Chinese view - Foreign Policy (blog)

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[image error] Stephen M. Walt: Sino-American rivalry: A Chinese view
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There's a must-read op-ed in today's New York Times by Yan Xuetong, the dean of the School of Modern International Relations as Tsinghua University. Writing as a self-described "realist," Yan acknowledges that the emerging Sino-American competition is ...

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Explaining Obama's Asia policy - Foreign Policy (blog)

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[image error] Explaining Obama's Asia policy
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As I've noted before, managing our Asian alliance ties is going to be a lot more difficult than managing NATO ever was (and it wasn't always easy), so I'm glad that the region is starting to get a lot more top-flight attention. ...

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Stephen M. Walt: Stopping an Iranian bomb - Foreign Policy (blog)

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I'm against the former and would favor the latter if necessary, but I do not think it is a foregone conclusion that Iran will actually go forward and acquire a nuclear weapons capability. In particular, I can think of two good reasons why a smart ...

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