Kenneth N. Waltz, 1924-2013
I learned this morning that Kenneth N. Waltz, who was arguably the preeminent theorist of international relations of the postwar period, had passed away at the age of 88. Ken was the author of several enduring classics of the field, including Man, the State, and War (1959), Foreign Policy and Democratic Politics (1967), and Theory of International Politics (1979). His 1980 Adelphi Paper on nucl
Historian Who Influences Both Obama and Romney (Published 2012)
In "The World America Made," Robert Kagan emphasizes military power as a measure of a country's health and global sway.Credit...Goran Tomasevic/Reuters One thing Barack Obama and Mitt Romney seem to have in common these days is an appreciation for the neoconservative historian Robert Kagan. The Romney campaign has retained Mr. Kagan as a foreign-policy adviser, and according to news reports, Presi
【人界観望楼】外交評論家・岡本行夫 道しるべなき世界を後に - MSN産経ニュース
夜の海に潜水して、水中で照明を消すと、全くの漆黒の闇になる。無重力の世界なので、体が逆立ち状態にあるのかも、どっちが海面か海底なのかも、わからない。道しるべは、自分が吐く息の気泡。それが上昇していく方向が海面だ。だが今の世界は、海面に出る道しるべさえなく、もがいているように見える。 ２０世紀には、「文明は時間とともに進歩する」という認識があった。「民主主義が広がるのはよいことだ」「圧政に対決する正義は常に正しい」「経済発展は世界に繁栄をもたらす」と。そうした信念も、今世紀には漂流し始めた。 たしかに「アラブの春」は民主化を広げたが、ムバラク崩壊後のエジプトは過激化し、４０年続いた中東の平和すら揺らぎそうだ。民主主義の重要な定義は、「自由選挙が行われること」だった。しかし、パレスチナの自由選挙でハマスが勝ち、イランでアフマディネジャド大統領が勝てば、アメリカはこれを民主主義とは認めない。一方
Is This George Kennan? | Frank Costigliola
It seemed like the perfect match. In the late 1970s John Lewis Gaddis was smart, sympathetic, and eager to write the biography. George F. Kennan admired Gaddis as probably “the best of the younger historians of American policy in the immediate postwar period.”1 Kennan had earned enormous respect over his long career as a diplomat, historian, public intellectual, and critic of US policy in the cold
The Age of Kennan (Published 2011)
While writing this essay, I asked several young men and women what George F. Kennan meant to them. As it turned out, nearly all were essentially oblivious of the man or his role in shaping American foreign policy. Yet Kennan had fashioned the concept of containment in the name of which the cold war was conducted and won and almost concurrently had also expressed some of the most trenchant criticis
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