It is ordinary to associate the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 as the dawn of American unipolarity — an era in which the United States’ relative power was so great that it had no significant rivals. Some have even claimed that no state in history was as powerful as the United States in [...]
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The Future of Transatlantic Power – An Interview with Daniel Hamilton
Conducted by Liv Dowling Dr. Daniel Hamilton is the Richard von Weizsäcker Professor and Director of the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. He also serves as Executive Director of the American Consortium for EU Studies and the coordinator of the “Enabling Technologies [...]
Moving On: Kosovo’s Future After Independence
By Deirdre Dlugoleski To the inhabitants of Pristina, bursts of gunfire and the glare of explosions in the night sky must have been nothing new. The chaos of February 17 2008 probably looked familiar from a distance – except for the surging, celebrating crowds thronging the streets. Kosovars flocked to unveil new monuments to independence [...]
Russia: The Art of Power Politics – An Interview with Robert Kagan
Conducted by Edward Fishman Robert Kagan is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an author of several acclaimed books on American foreign policy. He writes a monthly column for The Washington Post, and he is a contributing editor at both The New Republic and The Weekly Standard. He served in [...]
