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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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The draft treaty on European security which President Medvedev published on his website two days ago confirms the predictions of Russia’s detractors. This intiative is stillborn. To appreciate why, read on….

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…

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.