Bruce Jenltleson and Charlie Kupchan critique Romney foreign policy. Bill French piles on.James Lindsay complains about the lack of foreign-policy content in Romney's speech. "Wave" of cyberattacks hit energy companies. Lionel Beehner: "the realist case" for intervening in Syria. Hayes Brown on the UN arms-trade treaty.The history of the @, via 3QD.An evenhanded assessment of my disagreement with Fioretos [ed. for typo] over historical...

Josh Rogin examines how the Romney campaign has "doubled down" on treating Russia as a geopolitical foe. Some ideological habits are hard to break. In this case, the US-Moscow relationship is fraught enough to render the position wrongheaded but not completely insane. Jay on long-term democratization pressures in Russia. Noah Smith evaluates the nature of China's economic "landing." Jeff Colgan thinks highly of the SEC ruling that multinational...

Paul Pillar at The National Interest on Leslie Gelb on the Obama Doctrine (an article that CFR flogged with multiple emails, I might add). An interesting set of readings that really do merit comment here, in one way or another. Read an interview with Richard Burger about his book on "Sex in China"Apply to be the "first ever US youth observer at the United Nations" The Afghanistan Study Group would like people not to forget Afghanistan (via...