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What Cuba’s Reforms Tell Us About the Country’s Leadership

While much attention has been paid to the scope of these and similar reforms, what they reveal about the country’s leadership has been largely ignored. The Cuban government…

January 14, 2013

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America’s ‘Pivot’ To Asia: Evolutionary not Reactionary

While Chinese actions certainly may have pushed American diplomats and security officials to conclude a pivot to Asia was needed, such a shift in terms of military power—which…

November 4, 2012

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It’s Time to Revise How We Talk About Revisionist Powers

There is a conceptual problem in ascribing the term revisionist to describe the respective foreign policy goals to international actors, such as Napoleonic France, modern Iran,…

October 29, 2012

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What is Brazil Up to with its Nuclear Policy?

Relations with Argentina, its longtime rival, have warmed and the two states even cooperate on nuclear and other security issues. Compared to the Middle East, South America is…

October 10, 2012

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Iran and the Threat of Nuclear Weapons: A Response to Kenneth Waltz

An eminent and lucid scholar, Waltz committed the error of trying to fit an incorrect piece of a puzzle into a coherent theory. His theory whereby nuclear powers have never gone…

August 20, 2012

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Rebranding Russia: The Promise of Putin

The Times Literary Supplement’s survey of recent Putin literature acknowledges that imaging is the greatest task confronting Russia today: The Kremlin’s biggest problem is…

March 6, 2012

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The Journal Revisited: A Rocky Road for US Public Diplomacy

Smith was writing during the administration of President George W. Bush when anti-Americanism had risen to historic highs due to opposition to the War in Iraq and the broader US…

January 17, 2012