Realism

Reinhold Niebuhr & India’s Tragic Choice in Afghanistan

India’s outreach to the Taliban since 2021 reflects the tragic decisions all nations must face between bad and worse actors

80 Years After WWII, Americans Still Benefit from the Victory

The US-led international order has delivered immense benefits to America and the world by ensuring a degree of global stability. Today, we must work to defend, restore, and strengthen the Pax Americana.

Putting Natural Law to Work: Review of Hopeful Realism

A trio of Protestant Christian political science professors argue that evangelicals should be more aware of and attuned to the natural law tradition

The United States Remains Deservedly Popular Abroad

Most of the world still looks to the United States for global leadership, particularly compared with China and Russia

The Christian Realism of Peggy Noonan

Peggy Noonan’s “A Certain Sense of America” captures the political contradictions and controversies that have characterized the last decade as few other books have

Is Just Statecraft Useful for Statecraft?

The intellectual formation of statesmen should focus less on theory and more on practice

Justice and Strategy in Just Statecraft

The term “just statecraft” is a novel but needed term that acknowledges the just war framework’s usefulness, not just for foreign policy but all areas of grand strategy

Just Statecraft: A Proposal

Introducing “just statecraft,” a new term designed to provoke discussion on the nature of responsible national leadership with reference to principles of just war and just peace

Supporting Brutal Dictators Is Not a ‘Realist’ Position

While some have argued that the Assad regime was a preferable alternative to rule by terrorism, the truth is that brutal dictatorships inevitably foster more extremism

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