Montenegro
Moon Jae-in
morality, and offshore balancing
Morocco
Morsi, Mohamed
Moscow
MSNBC
Mubarak, Hosni
Mueller, John
Mueller, Robert
Mullen, Mike
Muslims; travel ban; Trump policy on
Myanmar
Nacht, Michael
NAFTA; Trump and
Naím, Moisés
Nairobi
narcotics
Nasr, Octavia
Nasr, Vali
National Democratic Institute
National Intelligence Council
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National Public Radio
National Review
National Security Agency (NSA)
National Security Council
National Security Strategy
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neoconservatives; accountability and
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New Yorker, The
New York Times, The
New Zealand
NGOs
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Nieto, Enrique Peña
Niger
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9/11 attacks
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Noah, Trevor
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Northern Ireland
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Norway
NSC-68
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Paul, Ron
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Perle, Richard
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Plame, Valerie
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Reagan, Ronald
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Reinares, Fernando
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religion
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Romania
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Rubin, Michael
Rubin, Robert
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Sassaman, Nathan
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Snowden, Edward
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&nbs
p; South Sudan
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Stephanopoulos, George
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Stewart, Jon
Stewart, Mark G.
Stiglitz, Joseph
Sudan
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Summers, Lawrence
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taboos and dogmas
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Taiwan
Talbott, Strobe
Taliban
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Thiessen, Marc
think tanks
Thomas, Evan
Thomas, Helen
Thompson, John A.
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Time magazine
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Truman, Harry
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Tsunis, George
Tufts University
Tunisia
Turkey
Turnbull, Malcolm
Twitter
2008 financial crisis
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unipolar era
United Against Nuclear Iran
United Nations
United Nations Security Council; Resolution 1973
United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM)
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University of Chicago
U.S. Agency for International Development
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Uzbekistan
Van Buren, Peter
Vandenberg, Arthur
Vedrine, Hubert
veterans
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Vimont, Pierre
Volker, Kurt
Waldhauser, Thomas D.
Wall Street
Wall Street Journal, The
war on terror
Warren, Elizabeth; A Fighting Chance
Warsaw Pact
Washington, George
Washington Consensus
Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP)
Washington Post, The
waterboarding
weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
Wedel, Janine
Weekly Standard, The
West Africa
West Bank
WikiLeaks
Wilders, Geert
Will, George
Williams, Brian
Wilson, Woodrow
Wittes, Benjamin
Wohlforth, William
Wolf, Martin
Wolff, Michael, Fire and Fury
Wolfowitz, Paul
Woodward, C. Vann
Woolsey, James
World Affairs Councils of America (WACA)
World Bank
World Economic Forum, Davos
World Trade Organization (WTO)
World War I
World War II
Wright, Thomas
Wuterich, Frank
Xi Jinping
Yale University
Yanukovych, Viktor
Yemen
Yingling, Paul
Zakaria, Fareed
Zelikow, Philip
Zenko, Micah
Zionism
Zoellick, Robert
ALSO BY STEPHEN M. WALT
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
(coauthor with John J. Mearsheimer)
Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy
Revolution and War
The Origins of Alliances
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author of The Origins of Alliances; Revolution and War; Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy; and, with John J. Mearsheimer, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. He writes frequently for Foreign Policy. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEDICATION
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
1. A DISMAL RECORD
2. WHY LIBERAL HEGEMONY FAILED
3. DEFINING THE “BLOB”: WHAT IS THE “FOREIGN POLICY COMMUNITY”?
4. SELLING A FAILING FOREIGN POLICY
5. IS ANYONE ACCOUNTABLE?
6. HOW NOT TO FIX U.S. FOREIGN POLICY
7. A BETTER WAY
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
ALSO BY STEPHEN M. WALT
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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