Hichem Karoui (Paris III): "Conservative Revolution" Against America: The Bush Legacy — Debate About a Doctrine and its Tributaries. Stephen D. Krasner (Stanford): An Orienting Principle for Foreign Policy: The Deficiencies of “Grand Strategy”. From New Politics, a symposium on "The World in Crisis". Infested with people who (like Hillary Clinton) are infatuated with power, Washington has increasingly become a city devoid of people who actually understand power. The Ghost of Munich: Fredrik Logevall and Kenneth Osgood on America's appeasement complex. Why do we keep making the same mistakes? A review of Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy from Korea to Afghanistan by Derek Leebaert. A review of After the Globe, Before the World by RBJ Walker. Grand Strategies: The road to statecraft runs through literature. Three historical myths have been leading American presidents into folly for nearly a century — is Obama wise enough to avoid the same fate? After the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer each presented a bold vision of what the driving forces of world politics would be; the world in 2010 hardly seems on a more promising track — a reminder that simple visions, however powerful, do not hold up as reliable predictors of particular developments. A review of Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert Kaplan (and more and more and more and more). Obama's Top 10 foreign-policy headaches: If the president turns to global affairs after his midterm shellacking, the newly emboldened Republican opposition isn't going to make life easy for him. To understand just how bad the 112th Congress is likely to be for peace on Earth, one has to understand how incredibly awful the 110th and 111th Congresses have been during the past four years and then measure the ways in which things are likely to become even worse. A review of The Turkey and the Eagle: The Struggle for America's Global Role by Caleb Stewart Rossiter.
