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Stephen M. Walt

Stephen M. Walt is the academic dean and the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His article is adapted from Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy, which will be published by W.W. Norton & Co. later this year.

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A grand new strategy for American foreign policy.

Stephen M. Walt

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I am gratified that each of these distinguished scholars agrees with at least some of what I wrote. Given space constraints, I focus my response on the most salient areas of disagreement...
Stephen M. Walt
Elaine Scarry’s “Citizenship in Emergency” is an evocative metaphor masquerading as policy analysis. In this metaphor, two doomed planes symbolize contrasting approaches to national defense. Flight 77—the plane that struck the Pentagon—is...
Stephen M. Walt

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