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Liberals are musicians, realists are jocks - Foreign Policy

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Here's a question for you: does it make sense for the United States to open its best universities to students from China (or any other potential long-term rival) and to help them to acquire advanced scientific and technical knowledge? On the plus side, ...

Stephen M. Walt: Liberals are musicians, realists are jocks - Foreign Policy

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Here's a question for you: does it make sense for the United States to open its best universities to students from China (or any other potential long-term rival) and to help them to acquire advanced scientific and technical knowledge? On the plus side, ...

On Qaddafi - Foreign Policy (blog)

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Yesterday was a crazy day here in Cambridge, and so I'm late with my reaction to the death of Muammar al-Qaddafi. Here's my initial take, for what it may be worth. I don't think the death of any human being is something to celebrate, but there is no ...

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Stephen M. Walt: On Qaddafi - Foreign Policy (blog)

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Yesterday was a crazy day here in Cambridge, and so I'm late with my reaction to the death of Muammar Qaddafi. Here's my initial take, for what it may be worth. I don't think the death of any human being is something to celebrate, but there is no ...

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Lessons for the social sciences - Foreign Policy (blog)

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For those of you who are curious about the relationship between scholarship and the real world, with particular reference to the social sciences, I recommend FT columnist John Kay's recent essay "The Map is Not the Territory: An Essay on the State of ...

Foreign Policy: Riding The Wave Of Discontent - NPR

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A protester holds a banner after a sit-in demonstrating against the influence of bankers and financiers in front of the Reichstag building on Oct.15, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Thousands of people took to the streets across Germany in ...

Riding the wave of discontent - Foreign Policy (blog)

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Perhaps the single most remarkable development in 2011 is the wave of political protests that have occurred in widely-varying political contexts. In addition to the various upheavals that constitute the "Arab Spring," we've also seen tent cities in ...

Stephen M. Walt: Riding the wave of discontent - Foreign Policy (blog)

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[image error] Stephen M. Walt: Riding the wave of discontent
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Perhaps the single most remarkable development in 2011 is the wave of political protests that have occurred in widely-varying political contexts. In addition to the various upheavals that constitute the "Arab Spring," we've also seen tent cities in ...

THE IVORY TOWER - Foreign Policy

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Explanatory Note: A few weeks ago, I offered some comments on John Ikenberry's new book Liberal Leviathan, based on a panel discussion from the September 2011 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. John asked if he could offer a ...

American exceptionalism? - Denver Post

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Over the last two centuries, prominent Americans have described the United States as an "empire of liberty," a "shining city on a hill," the "last best hope of Earth," the "leader of the free world," and the "indispensable nation. ...

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