See, this is example of why Robert Kaplan is so awesome. I’ve read plenty of interesting commentary on the defeat of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, but almost all of it focuses on local issues: how did the government’s counterinsurgency campaign work?; how has the Tamil civilian population been affected?; etc. By contrast, Kaplan [...]

A related question is whether realism is actually part of the Republican Party’s intellectual DNA. Philip Zelikow says no, not really:
As a historian, I think one of the more remarkable things about the Nixon-Kissinger approach to great power relations and détente is actually how anomalous it was in comparison to the record of America’s international [...]

There’s an interesting discussion right now on Foreign Policy about the future of realism and the Republican Party. Daniel Drezner kicks things off with this post, to which Will Inboden responds:
[T]he debates within Republican circles that I recall from inside and that I have found most interesting outside tend to be fairly pragmatic — what [...]