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What, then, are they conserving, other than the progressive accomplishments of the prior generation?

Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

Such trends compelled me to stand my ground. I worked to expose Said’s Orientalism screed, noting that the first experts on the Middle East came from Germany and Hungary, neither of which ever colonized the region.

Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide

American troops found their tactics and technology, still designed to defeat an opponent like the now defunct Red Army, woefully inadequate to deal with these new threats.

Max Boot • Invisible Armies

In 1896, Brooks Adams wrote a book called The Law of Civilization and Decay. Like most late-19th-century commentators, he believed that his country was nearing a watershed in its history. But unless America rallied around a strong leader, the center of world power, which he thought might be about to shift from England to the United States, would sh

Although appointed to oversee the deployment of an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, the choice of McChrystal belies the popular notion of a wholesale shift to a less kinetic campaign intent on building relations with the local population. In his earlier role, McChrystal had led Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) for 5 years; this was t

Antoine J. Bousquet • The Scientific Way of Warfare

In their view, U.S. foreign policy is largely the servant of corporate interests—the military-industrial complex, energy companies, and “major corporations, banks, investment firms, ... and policy-oriented intellectuals who do the bidding of those who own and manage the private empires that govern most aspects of our lives.”

Nathan J. Robinson • Noam Chomsky Has Been Proved Right

The major alternatives to a modernized world order supported by the United States appear unlikely and unappealing. A Chinese-led order, for example, would be an illiberal one, characterized by authoritarian domestic political systems and statist economies that place a premium on maintaining domestic stability. There would be a return to spheres of

Richard Haass • The World

Readers crave lessons; aspiring diplomats can learn from them; old hands can quibble with them. Cooper calls them “maxims.” One is particularly powerful – and painful. It comes from Robert McNamara and his reflections on Vietnam written in 1995. It is a searing indictment as we ponder the calamity in Afghanistan. It sums up a lot of Cooper’s... See more

American Diplomacy • The Ambassadors:Thinking About Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times | American Diplomacy Est 1996

The End of History?

Francis Fukuyama explores the concept of the "end of history," arguing that liberal democracy represents the final stage of human ideological evolution and discusses its implications for global politics and society.

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