30.11.2009
Francis Fukuyama, from The End of History to After the Neocons
As a young researcher, Francis Fukuyama changed the landscape of American political science discourse by his remarkably well timed and well argued description of a new paradigm to inform foreign policy in The End of History (1992). For our analysis of this seminal work and of the author’s later writings, read on…
10:03 Publié dans International | Lien permanent | Commentaires (0) | Envoyer cette note | Tags : fukuyama, irving kristol, neoconservatives, the national interest, hegel, alexandre kojève. allan bloom, paul wolfowitz, sam huntington
21.11.2009
Balance of Power in Play: the EU-Russia Summit, Stockholm
This week the global alignment of international relations was audibly in motion. From either side of Eurasia we heard a clanging of gears and rudders heaving to a side for the execution of 180 degree turns as ships of state changed direction.
08:04 Publié dans International | Lien permanent | Commentaires (0) | Envoyer cette note | Tags : fredrik reinfeldt, carl bildt, dmitry medvedev, jose manuel barroso
10.11.2009
The Strange Case of Yulia Tymoshenko’s 2007 Article in Foreign Affairs
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko may not have an American spouse to help her with the fine points of grammar when she deals with the American media like her domestic rival Viktor Yushchenko or the head of state of Ukraine’s great regional friend, Georgia, but her wonderfully American point of view as well as splendid syntax and vocabulary shone through in an article on ‘Containing Russia’ which was taken up uncritically by the editors of Foreign Affairs magazine for its May-June 2007 issue. To find out why, read on…
09:25 Publié dans International | Lien permanent | Commentaires (0) | Envoyer cette note | Tags : yulia tymoshenko, viktor yushchenko, henry kissinger, naftogaz, ron asmus, the national interest, sergei lavrov, plagiarism, german marshall fund