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Stephen M. Walt: News flash: WINEP defends the 'special relationship' - Foreign Policy (blog)

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Last week the Washington Institute of Near East Policy released a brief report entitled "Israel: A Strategic Asset for the United States." Such an event is not exactly headline news, insofar as the report is precisely the sort of analysis that you'd ...

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The key to the euro crisis: Economic growth - Foreign Policy (blog)

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[image error] The key to the euro crisis: Economic growth
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As I've emphasized before, I'm no macroeconomist (although my respect for some of them has been dropping steadily since 2007). From my decidedly non-expert perspective, here's what I've concluded. The real issue with respect to Greece and Italy (and ...

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Offshore balancing: An idea whose time has come - Foreign Policy (blog)

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But in this case I'm not complaining, because some of his recent writings suggest that he's coming around to the idea of offshore balancing. Consider his column in today's Times. He makes two basic points: 1) the strategic stakes in Central Asia aren't ...

Bridging the gap in the Gulf - Foreign Policy (blog)

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[image error] Bridging the gap in the Gulf
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The New York Times reports that the United States is planning to beef up its security ties in the Gulf, in the aftermath of the withdrawal from Iraq. On the one hand, this makes sense given global dependence on stable oil exports from the Gulf region ...

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The not-so-great man theory of history - Foreign Policy (blog)

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Whatever you think of the latest effort to save Europe and the Euro -- and I'm not that impressed -- this does not strike me as an encouraging sign. After all, Berlusconi first became Prime Minister in 1994 and he's served three terms since then. ...

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Stephen M. Walt: The not-so-great man theory of history - Foreign Policy (blog)

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Whatever you think of the latest effort to save Europe and the Euro -- and I'm not that impressed -- this does not strike me as an encouraging sign. After all, Berlusconi first became Prime Minister in 1994 and he's served three terms since then. ...

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In-house infighting: Walt vs. Drezner vs. Walt vs. Drezner - Foreign Policy (blog)

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[image error] In-house infighting: Walt vs. Drezner vs. Walt vs. Drezner
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I like robust debate as much as the next person, but I'm leery of the tendency for bloggers to get into extended back-and-forths with our fellow commentators. All too often, this can rapidly degenerate into a lot of self-referential posturing and leave ...

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Stephen M. Walt: In-house infighting: Walt vs. Drezner vs. Walt vs. Drezner - Foreign Policy (blog)

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[image error] Stephen M. Walt: In-house infighting: Walt vs. Drezner vs. Walt vs. Drezner
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I like robust debate as much as the next person, but I'm leery of the tendency for bloggers to get into extended back-and-forths with our fellow commentators. All too often, this can rapidly degenerate into a lot of self-referential posturing and leave ...

Foreign Policy: Why Obama Is Coming Up Empty - NPR

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Stephen M. Walt is a professor of international affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and the author of Taming American Power: The Global Response to US Primacy. My FP colleague (and Zombie maven) Dan Drezner ...

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Stephen M. Walt: Coming up empty - Foreign Policy (blog)

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[image error] Stephen M. Walt: Coming up empty
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I'm not talking about the GOP abjectly surrendering, mind you, just doing routine things like subjecting my nominees to a floor vote in the Senate. I've achieved significant foreign policy successes while still cooperating with our allies in NATO and ...

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