About a year ago I introduced an ocasional series called "Quarter-Baked Ideas." The idea was to blog about semi-formed thoughts related to international affairs. The whole notion turned about to be quarter-baked: I haven't done another one until now. Do rising powers...
I already pimped it, but my review essay, "The Balance of Power in the Balance," just came out in World Politics (abstract). Unlike a number of other journals, World Politics subjects review essays...
One of the panels I attended at ISA was a roundtable on Stephen Brooks' and William Wohlforth's excellent new book, World Out of Balance: International Relations and the Challenge of American...
Will we look back on all those arguments about how unipolarity is stable, American primacy is secure, and traditional balance-of-power politics don't work in hegemonic systems as quaint artifacts of...
I haven't had the time to write my next installment on the balance of power, but it looks like I'll be addressing some of the key issues I wanted to raise in an incremental form.The Christian Science Monitor has a provocatively titled story on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO): "Russia, China looking to form 'NATO of the East'?"MOSCOW - Russia and China could take a step closer to forming a Eurasian military confederacy to rival NATO at a Moscow meeting of the six-member Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Wednesday, experts say.The group, which started in 2001 with limited...