Occupation: Historian Birth: September 26, 1958
If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound..
Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame..
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less..
Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are incre….
In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides….
International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of liberal….
When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: When you don't hav….
The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will..
I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition..
Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty..
I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles..
When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies,….
It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong..
When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails..
I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the ….