World Politics Review

As Fred Kaplan observed, there will be a strong temptation on the part of senior officers to “whack away at the resources” for things that are no longer deemed as “core missions.” This strategic guidance document will be used to inform the 2013 fiscal ...

According to an unnamed administration official cited by the Atlantic's Steve Clemons this week, Vice President Joe Biden has been tasked by the White House with overseeing US-China relations. ...

As Steve Clemons summed it up, "Both Israel and Palestine cannot achieve peace on their own. Their internal domestic institutions and political order cannot take the domestic political stress of delivering on a deal." Yet, as Clemons continues, ...

Evgeny Morozov -- whose homeland, Belarus, remains under the control of Europe's last great überauthoritarian regime -- notes that the Internet is no panacea for political repression. In the context of the values embraced by the strategy document, ...

The wave of popular uprisings sweeping throughout the Middle East may give new life to what Evgeny Morozov, in his just-released book, "The Net Delusion," called the "Google doctrine": the "fervent conviction that given enough gadgets, connectivity and ...

Two in particular that are worth mentioning are Ian Bremmer's 2006 book, "The J Curve," which predicts a dangerous dip into instability when closed, authoritarian states attempt to open up to the world; and Evgeny Morozov's new book, "The Net Delusion ...

(Sam Roggeveen here, Andrew Sullivan here, and Fred Kaplan here.) For his part, Art Goldhammer is underwhelmed by this Le Monde summary of the dispatches ...

... and I've also edited and ran articles on the WPR front page by Justin Logan, Bernard Finel and Steve Clemons (and gladly would again). ...

... the yearly value of all lithium sales worldwide, giving credence to Parag Khanna's assertion that, "Independence without infrastructure is futile. ...

I was intrigued by the perspective offered by Parag Khanna, my co-panelist this past week at a "Rise of the Rest" panel sponsored by the Carnegie Council on ...