War and National Security

Age of Anxiety

The old ideas won't work in the war on terror.

  • Kevin Mattson

On the Ground in Iraq

The roots of sectarian violence.

  • Nir Rosen

The Crusader

Why we must take Osama bin Laden’s writings seriously.

  • Khaled Abou El Fadl

Exit Strategy

How to disengage from Iraq in 18 months.

  • Barry R. Posen
with responses from
  • Barbara K. Bodine
  • Joseph R. Biden
  • Vivek Chibber
  • Russell D. Feingold
  • Randall Forsberg
  • Lawrence Korb & Brian Katulis
  • Helena Cobban
  • Christopher Preble
  • Eliot Weinberger
  • Nir Rosen

Creator and Destroyer

The rivalry between J. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller was a rivalry to end the world.

  • Vivian Gornick

In the National Interest

A grand new strategy for American foreign policy.

  • Stephen M. Walt
with responses from
  • Richard Falk
  • Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
  • Ervand Abrahamian
  • Khalil Shikaki
  • Naomi Chazan
  • Robert Vickers Jr.
  • Mahmood Mamdani
  • John Tirman
  • Ivo Daalder & James Lindsay
  • Mary Kaldor
  • Anne-Marie Slaughter

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The Right Fight

Enlisted by the feds, can police find sleeper cells and protect civil rights, too?

  • Daniel Richman
with responses from
  • David A. Harris
  • Bob Barr
  • Edward Rubin
  • William J. Stuntz
  • Juliette Kayyem
  • David A. Sklansky
  • Elizabeth Glazer
  • Richard Thompson Ford
  • Corey Robin

What Went Wrong

Why the United States must resist the impulse to remake entire societies, particularly through military might.

  • Rajan Menon

Lost Opportunities

Without Oslo, Israelis and Palestinians would not have been as committed to a two-state solution as they are today.

  • Jeremy Pressman

Iraq’s Chaos

Why the insurgency won't go away.

  • Ahmed S. Hashim

High Art in Low Times

Two new books on the cultural Cold War.

  • Catherine Gunther Kodat

Time Out of Joint

Western dominance, Islamist terror, and the Arab imagination.

  • Sadiq J. Al-Azm

Russia’s Quagmire

On ending the standoff in Chechnya.

  • Rajan Menon

Reason and Terror

Has 9/11 made it hard to think straight?

  • Diego Gambetta

Letters from Chomsky and Galbraith on JFK and Vietnam

An exchange.

  • Noam Chomsky
  • James K. Galbraith

The Wrong Lessons

The vanishing legacy of Operation Restore Hope.

  • Alex de Waal

Exporting Democracy

The UN and the rebuilding of Kosova.

  • Ralph Cintron
  • Stevan Weine
  • Ferid Agani

The New Humanitarianism

How military intervention became the norm.

  • John Tirman

Dominance and Its Dilemmas

The Bush administration’s imperial grand strategy.

  • Noam Chomsky

The Iraqi Shiites

On the history of America’s would-be allies.

  • Juan Cole

Shock and Awe Meets Market Shock

The dangerous mix of economic and military goals in Iraq

  • Duncan Kennedy

Transparent Citizens, Invisible Government

The double requirement of the Constitution—that people’s lives be private and government actions be public—is turned inside out by the Patriot Act.

  • Elaine Scarry

Weapons of Mass Confusion

The new emphasis on WMDs has not been accompanied by any serious public discussion of the differences among such weapons.

  • Owen R. Cote, Jr.

Waiting for War in Damascus

Syria has been opening up. A war will shut it down.

  • Helena Cobban
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