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Imperatives of geopolitics

From New Politics, a special section on the world in crisis. From the Yale Journal of International Affairs, a special issue on security, including Matthew Adam Kocher (Yale): State Capacity as a Conceptual Variable; Christian Leuprecht (Queen's): The Demographic Security Dilemma; and an interview with Ambassador John Negroponte on the evolution of American security. Matthew Yglesias reviews The Godfather Doctrine: A Foreign Policy Parable by John C. Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell and The Myth of American Exceptionalism by Godfrey Hodgson. Fareed Zakaria on why failed states are not the real threat. Stealth Superpower: John Feffer on how Turkey is chasing China to become the next Big Thing. A review of How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace by Charles A. Kapuchan. Gathering Storm: Iam Bremmer on America and China in 2020 (and more). From Quadrant, Paul Monk, author of The West in a Nutshell: Foundations, Fragilities, Futures, on the rise of the market state; and Michael Evans on The Manchurian Paradox and the three imperatives of geopolitics, strategic alignment and military modernisation. A time to appease: Paul Kennedy on the worst insult to emerge from our political lexicon. Cleo Paskal on her book Global Warring: How Environmental, Economic, and Political Crises Will Redraw the World Map. From Commentary, Abe Greenwald on the soft-power fallacy. Night of the Living Wonks: Daniel Drezner on an international relations theory of zombies. Reimagining Eurasia: A new "Great Game" will not increase U.S. influence in Russia's backyard. A look at what game theory can tell us about a possible Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict. The first chapter from The Clash of Ideas in World Politics: Transnational Networks, States, and Regime Change, 1510-2010 by John M. Owen.