Ryan Jacobs (UNC): Why the U.S. Hegemonic Power is Essential for Future Global Stabilization. Peter Beinart on how America stopped thinking strategically: From the current debates you’d never know what matters more — Russia’s land grab, Iran’s nuclear program, or China’s territorial claims. A new U.S. grand strategy: Barry R. Posen on how to stop the United States from overreaching, overspending, and overcommitting. The lies we tell ourselves: Aaron David Miller on six grand illusions of America's foreign policy. Republican Prudence: Paul Carrese and Michael Doran on how four basic principles defined the Founders’ foreign policy — we need to re-learn them. Democracy Lab: Christian Caryl on how the Wizard of Oz explains America’s foreign policy: A few thoughts on saving the Munchkins, defeating tyranny, and the politics of America's favorite fairytale. Ethan B. Kapstein on how to do intervention without blowing stuff up: It’s time to relearn the good tools of the Cold War. Temptations of empire: Jonathan Derbyshire interviews David Bromwich. Ian Buruma on America’s late imperial dilemma. From The American Conservative, Daniel McCarthy on why liberalism means empire: Democracy isn't the end of history, it's a product of power. Alan Dye reviews The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013 by Noel Maurer. Whose security? Noam Chomsky on how Washington protects itself and the corporate sector. Daniel W. Drezner on the most annoying tic in the American foreign policy machine: The United States excels at telling the rest of the world what is in their interests — it's not endearing. Ferguson, whataboutism and American soft power: Authoritarian countries are criticizing the United States about Ferguson — is this a sign of waning American power? Not post-American yet: Michael O'Hanlon on how the world is still America's to lead — and still America's to lose.
