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The ‘Roosevelt Rule’ is the Way Around America’s Cartoonish Foreign Policy
For the whole of my adult working life, the discussions among the American foreign policy elite have had a cartoonish quality, amounting to highly stylized posturing, not remotely approximating the reality of the country’s actual place in the world. This intellectual flabbiness was mitigated by the fact that, because the U.S. was then far and…
The Last Best Hope: A History of American Realism–Available for pre-order!
Dear All, I am beyond delighted to announce that “The Last Best Hope: A History of American Realism” is now available for pre-order from Amazon in the US (it’s also available for pre-order on Amazon UK). Here is what the inside cover says: “In this brilliant exploration of American history and contemporary conservative politics, foreign…
No amount of wishful thinking will displace the mighty dollar
More mistakes are made in political risk analysis due to the curse of wishful thinking than any other intellectual malady that afflicts the human mind. I was recently watching a documentary about the fall of Richard Nixon, in which one of his lawyers expressed shock that the US Supreme Court had ruled unanimously that he…
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