Dan Drezner continues the discussion on Obama and realism and cites the principles of ethical realism: First, liberal values do matter to Obama — they just don’t matter as much as other things. Second ...

Realism is a school of thought in international relations that asserts the need to carefully assess and project national power to achieve maximum stability and security among states. Some political ...

Joseph Nye died earlier this month at the age of 88, and with him passes one of the most influential voices of post-Cold War American internationalism. The tributes have been swift and respectful, as ...

Lieven and Hulsman, partisan think-tank researchers from opposing ends of the political spectrum, unite to provide an alternative to current U.S. foreign policy, based on ""the core teachings of ...

Explosive violence in Iraq and Afghanistan has generated intense discussion about U.S. foreign policy. In a new book, two scholars say America's strategy in emerging democracies and elsewhere is ...

In this paper, I am concerned with the possibility of applying an abductive strategy in founding ethical realism. First, I criticize Harman's position, according to which abduction, though useful for ...

Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, Vol. 176, No. 1 (January 2019), pp. 93-115 (23 pages) It is often said that normative properties are "just too ...

Joseph Nye died earlier this month at the age of 88, and with him passes one of the most influential voices of post-Cold War American internationalism. The tributes have been swift and respectful, as ...