The threat to Europe comes not in the form of uniforms, but in the tattered garb of refugees,
The age of comparative anarchy is upon us.
Panacea. This created a plethora of anomalies. The Syr
If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.
Vast and pivotal expanse of Central Asia and its Mongol-Turkic hordes. These four marginal regions, as he informs us, correspond not coincidentally to the four great numerical religions: for faith, to...
The problem with a foreign policy driven foremost by Never Again! is that it ignores limits and the availability of resources. World War II had the secondary, moral effect of saving what was left of E...
The ancient world was settled so sparsely that nature was not yet eclipsed by man,
It is the freedom to concentrate military equipment in key locations around the world that has preserved American military might.
A better age would have to follow.
The historian John Keegan explains that America and Britain could champion freedom only because the sea protected them from the landbound enemies of liberty.
Whereas devotees of globalization stress what unifies humankind, traditional realists stress what divides us.
Likewise, democracy in Saudi Arabia is potentially our enemy.
Historically, both Marxist and liberal intellectuals, in their efforts to remake societies after Soviet and Western models, have tragically underestimated these traditional loyal ties existing below t...
Geography and history demonstrate that we can never discount Russia. Russia’s partial resurgence in our own age following the dissolution of the Soviet Empire is part of an old story. Russia
But in Jordan, it is hard to imagine a more moderate and pro-Western regime than the current undemocratic monarchy.
ALL POST-COMMUNIST SOCIETIES ARE uprooted ones because Communism uprooted traditions, so nothing fits with anything else, explained the philosopher Patapievici. Fifteen years earlier, when I had last...
State’s position on the map is the first thing that defines it, more than its governing philosophy even.
Of ocean, around the North Pole there is an ocean surrounded by a near-unbroken
Yet now that we inhabit Mackinder’s closed political system, which, as Bracken notes, has closed much further in the course of the twentieth century, the map is also subject to the law of entropy, mea...
Leave us alone and we’ll leave you alone, or else we will hunt you down wherever you are.