I'm having a difficult time understanding what Stephen Walt means by this : [Wednesday] we learn that Iran is resupplying the Assad re...

A few weeks ago Dan Drezner called me "curiously lazy" for writing that we shouldn't pay much attention to what presidential...

Dan Drezner offers some unsolicited advice to Mitt Romney. Well he calls it advice, but it amounts to a request: "Please tell us what ...

(Apologies for the light posting. Real work plus a family emergency has gotten in the way. Normal posting should continue for most of the re...

At least I hope they aren't: Cain replied, “I’m ready for the ‘gotcha’ questions and they’re already starting to come. And when they a...

I don't disagree with any of Drezner's critiques of Romney's white paper , nor with his overall grade. But I think that it's...

Wow. Fred Kaplan goes full-bore on Rumsfeld, in a review of his new memoir and legacy. I'm not going to excerpt it; you really need to ...

Drezner asks what today's twenty-somethings think about international politics: As I think about it, here are the Millennials' foun...

A few days ago Yglesias wrote that China's domestic politics isn't as simple as many outsiders think: Chinese political institution...

This isn't really my area of expertise, but I think George Packer has it right : The flotilla was bait, and Israel took it—a classic tri...

I'm always skeptical of fluff pieces about the reading habits of politicians. I find it hard to believe that just because a president re...

Katja Kleinberg and Benjamin Fordham , two UNC Ph.D.'s and currently Assistant Professor of Political Science and Professor of Politica...

Thought I'd toss out this video of Stephen Cohen talking about his book (with Brad DeLong) The End of Influence . The discussion frustra...

Spencer Ackerman sits down with Anne-Marie Slaughter to discuss her efforts (under Sec. Clinton) to reform the State Department, and take s...