Countering China’s Great Game: A Strategy for American Dominance By Michael Sobolik (Naval Institute Press, 161 pages, $22) Sometimes small books can have big impacts — one thinks of Machiavelli’s The Prince, Halford Mackinder’s Democratic Ideals and Reality, Norman Podhoretz’s…
The World That Wasn’t: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century By Ben Steil (Simon & Schuster, 704 pages, $40) When you arrive at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum on the grounds of the Roosevelt…
There were seven. Seven figures above all, with varying influences, some more intentional than others, who brought down the Berlin Wall, freed Eastern Europe from communism, took down the Soviet Union, and peacefully ended the Cold War. They were Ronald…
Savile Row, located in central London, was once the home of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). Lord Curzon described the building as “cramped and rather squalid,” but on January 25, 1904, the audience heard a paper read by Halford Mackinder…
What do foreign policy realists hope for? Not global democracy. Not the emergence of greater global governance. Not a unipolar world led by the United States or China. Not an end to all international conflict. Realists understand that some of…
Henry Kissinger began contributing to America’s national security during World War II. After fleeing Nazi Germany in August 1938 at the age of 15, attending George Washington High School and City College in New York, Kissinger was drafted into the…
Most of us, in setting out to write a doctoral dissertation, the final great requirement on the path to a Ph.D., perhaps the first real step in a dreamed-of academic career, approach it narrowly. Most doctoral dissertations remain unpublished, except…
MAD or “mutually-assured destruction” is truly mad. The idea that a nuclear strike by one nation must result in worldwide Armageddon is insane. This theory of the Cold War, which cost untold billions in expenditures on weapons that have never…
Reading the recent article in Foreign Affairs on “China’s misunderstood nuclear expansion” by M. Taylor Fravel of MIT, Henrik Stålhane Hiim of the Norwegian Defense University College, and Magnus Langset Trøan of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, I was…
