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The United States pursuing the realist prescription during the cold war helped maintain the balance of power and thus 'peace' among the competing great powers. In the post-cold war era it divorced some of realist assumptions-most importantly

In full disclosure, this thesis is not intended to be a dogmatic or pedantic endorsement of any one religion, ethic, or culture. To the contrary, it is my intent to examine a number of competing ideas, philosophies, and belief systems in order to

This long essay seeks to address the many issues raised in World Order and highlighted by the reviewers in three parts. First, I reconstruct the broad sweep of the book’s arguments, point out its various strengths, and explore the overall purpose of

This is the syllabus (with a set of essays to introduce the weekly readings) for a course I taught at Harvard in the Fall Semester of 1998.

This study analyzes the perpetuation of US hegemony through its overseas military bases. It takes a Marxist-Gramscist hegemony approach as its theoretical basis and discusses the political processes, ideological debates, security perceptions;

Neorealism predicts that because of the anarchic order in international politics, balances of power recurrently form to check and prevent any potential hegemon from becoming a real one. But this rule does not hold any more in the contemporary world.

Theories of balancing are under assault. On theoretical and historical grounds, realists and non-realists challenge the claim that states balance against shifts in aggregate material capabilities. In addressing these claims, this article presents a

With the post-Cold War developments Turkey found a suitable environment to assert itself as a regional leader in the Balkans and Middle East. In this vein mediation became a tool for advancing Turkey’s regional role with the Justice and Development