MAY 10, 2022 • page
Franklin Roosevelt and World War II
Harvard's Joseph Nye presents a counterfactual about World War II: What would have happened if FDR had not been the president?
MAY 10, 2022 • page
What Was the Powell Doctrine?
Author and veteran reporter Marvin Kalb describes the Powell Doctrine—the philosophy that informed George H. W. Bush's decision to hit Iraq hard and get ...
MAY 10, 2022 • page
Was World War I Necessary?
Author Sir Max Hastings warns us against thinking that the First World War was less important than the Second World War.
MAY 10, 2022 • page
What Distinguished WWI from WWII?
Author Sir Max Hastings argues that the Second World War is sometimes perceived by Westerners as less devastating than the First, in part, because Russians ...
MAY 10, 2022 • page
Did Nuclear Weapons Cause Japan to Surrender?
Ward Wilson, senior fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, explains that the Soviet declaration of ...
MAY 10, 2022 • page
What Constitutes an Ethical Approach to International Affairs?
In this discussion of the application of ethics to the study of international affairs, Rosenthal asks "Can we propose an approach that is interdisciplinary, rigorous, ...
MAY 10, 2022 • page
What the Sages Say
A presentation of the major theories in the field of ethics in international affairs with a focus on the writings of George F. Kennan, Hans ...
MAY 10, 2022 • page
Dilemmas of Humanitarian and Peace Operations
From the point of view of ethics there are two overarching considerations informing most decisions regarding whether to intervene, and if so, who should do ...