Trump will not restrain Israel: the clock is now ticking for Iran and its proxies
The terrorists’ window of opportunity will close when Trump is inaugurated
Woodrow Wilson
The high cost of failing to contain China
In Fareed Zakaria’s May 5 op-ed, “A hawkish strategy on China is a big mistake,” he argued in response to our recent Foreign Affairs article, “No Substitute for Victory: America’s Competition...
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George Will and American power
How his conservative sensibility informs his approach to foreign policy
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The 100-year-old promise
In theory, who doesn’t believe in self-determination, the idea, developed in the 19th century, that all nations have a right to sovereignty? By the early 20th century,...
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Who’s A Fascist? Not Donald Trump
No, Donald Trump isn’t a fascist. And the efforts of a considerable number of columnists, reporters, and even university professors to make him out to be a second Hitler or Mussolini testif...
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The Real ‘Spring’ is Not Arab
Buried beneath the news’ cycle of the Arab Spring is a much overlooked and potentially r...
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Oil and War Mix: Having the Former Has Meant Winning the Latter
The definitive history of the role of oil in modern warfare has not been written, but a lot can be learned from Robert Zubrin’s new book, Energy Victory. “For nearly...
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Be Wise on Kosovo
Over the past few months a number of Western leaders, including senior United States figures, have lent their support to separating the province of Kosovo from the Republic of Serbia, based on th...
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Esa Combinación “Petróleo y Guerra”
La historia definitiva del rol del petróleo en la guerra moderna aún no se ha escrito, pero se puede aprender mucho del nuevo libro de Robert Zubrin Energy Victory (La Victoria de l...
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Honoring the Compact
In an age when judges are habituated to invent rather than apply the law, a written Constitution is a thing of irony. We’ve become exactly what constitutions are designed to prevent: a nation not of...
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Turkey’s Hollow Prize
It's time Congress pulled the plug on Washington's taxpayer-subsidized Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, which has turned itself into a global joke. With Turkey's l...
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Can Obama Accept the Prize?
By Dr. J Peter Pham and Ronald D. Rotunda People can, and undoubtedly will, argue for some time about whether President Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Meanwhile, though,...
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Peace Porridge
President Barack Obama's premature Nobel Peace Prize has catalyzed a useful debate, in which the real question is less the timing of the award than what, exactly, he has won. How are we to r...
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The Enduring Consequences of the First World War
If the First World War was to be the "war to end all wars," the Paris Peace Conference established a "peace to end all peace." In both the scale of its devastation and in its political consequenc...
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Michael Scheuer’s Bloody Logic
By: Andrew Apostolou. M...
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Free Speech for Terrorists?
The nexus in militant Islam between advocacy and actual savagery is no longer contestable. It has been the subject of too much informed analysis and, more importantly, is an empirically demonstra...
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A Cure for the Clash?
Early in the final decade of the last century, Harvard professor Samuel Huntington offered what seemed an eccentric prediction. While others saw economic, political and ideological tempests ahead...
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Bush Plays the Palace
President Bush's "Three Pillars" speech at Whitehall Palace today may have been the most significant of his presidency. What's more, he was almost as eloquent as Tony Blair. It must be...