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Congressman Dennis Kucinich and the Power of One

2010-03-13T12:28:43+01:00

A vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on Dennis Kucinich’s ‘Privileged Resolution’ calling for a pull-out from Afghanistan gives realists an opportunity to find their voice. Is anyone interested?

Russia’s Draft Treaty on European Security: Sergei Lavrov to the Rescue

2010-02-16T13:11:33+01:00

This year the Russians once again used the venue of the Munich Security Conference to issue a major address on foreign policy. Sergei Lavrov’s delivery of a carefully crafted speech may yet come to the rescue of his President’s hopes for revising the architecture of European security.

Henry Kissinger from Diplomacy (1994) to Does America Need a Foreign Policy? (2001) Part Three

2010-03-05T08:59:12+01:00

This is the third of a three-part essay examining Henry Kissinger’s writings on how to manage American foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. Revised 5 March 2010

Henry Kissinger from Diplomacy (1994) to Does America Need a Foreign Policy? (2001) Part Two

2010-03-05T09:00:24+01:00

This is the second of a three-part essay examining Henry Kissinger’s writings on how to manage American foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. Revised 5 March 2010.

Realism and Revisionism: Henry Kissinger from Diplomacy (1994) to Does America Need a Foreign Policy? (2001). Part One

2010-03-05T09:01:27+01:00

This is the first of a three-part essay examining Henry Kissinger’s writings on how to manage American foreign policy in the post-Cold War period.

Demographics and Russia's Great Power Status

2010-01-13T12:37:59+01:00

Russia’s return to great power status is being measured day by day in its hospital delivery rooms. To understand why, read on.

2009 Nobel Prize for Peace, Fool’s Gold: Zbigniew Brzezinski ‘From Hope to Audacity’ in Foreign Affairs, January-February 2010

2010-01-02T10:46:01+01:00

In Stalinist Russia there was a saying that it is never too late to be shot. In the USA it is clearly never too late to practice craven sycophancy. In his latest article in Foreign Affairs magazine, Zbnigniew Brzezinski gives us the proof.