With the imminent and long-awaited collapse of the brutal Khadafy regime, President Obama’s careful, persistent, and oft-criticized policy…
As of December 2010, 1.25 million service men and women had returned home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Many have been wounded or injured in…
The United States had never lost a war—that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon…
Power is a contested concept, and no one definition suits all purposes. Many analysts of international relations and foreign policy have…
Fareed Zakaria is one of our most perceptive analysts of America's role in the world, and I generally agree with him. But in the case of…
In the era of Kennedy and Khrushchev, power was expressed in terms of nuclear missiles, industrial capacity, numbers of men under arms, and…
It is currently fashionable to predict a decline in the United States' power. But the United States is not in absolute decline, and in…
In his inaugural address in 2009, President Barack Obama stated that "our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from…
Recent developments, especially the devastating economic crisis, have highlighted the world’s growing interdependence and drawn attention…
This book is a collection of papers prepared for the 2008 summer Aspen Strategy Group conference on The Instruments & Institutions of…