Christopher Hitchens Quote

The debacle in Iraq has reinforced the realist dictum, disparaged by idealists in the 1990s, that the legacies of geography, history and culture really do set limits on what can be accomplished in any...

It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people...

There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like Earth, and particularly the understanding of that part of the then-existing group-civilization w...

Any critique of realism must begin with a sober assessment of the horrors of peace.

International politics is never about democracy and human rights. It's about the interests of states. Remember that, no matter what you are told in history lessons.