Tag: American Foreign Policy

February 22, 2018

How Women Came to Matter in American Foreign Policy

We recently released a paperback edition of The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy, by Valerie M. Hudson and Patricia Leidl, which originally launched in 2015. Watch the original panel discussion and book launch at the Wilson Center. Remember...

April 26, 2012

Valerie M. Hudson: What Sex Means for World Peace

In a recent article in Foreign Policy, Valerie M. Hudson, coauthor of Sex and World Peace, argues that the very best predictor of a state’s peacefulness is not its level of wealth, its level of democracy, or its ethno-religious identity;...

December 23, 2011

American Force: Richard Betts on Possible Future Threats to the United States

In the conclusion to his book American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security, Richard Betts explores some of the possible dangers that might confront the United States in the coming years. In particular he considers issues and possible...

December 22, 2011

American Force, by Richard Betts, Reviewed in Foreign Affairs

American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National , by Richard Betts recently received a serious and glowing review in Foreign Affairs: Betts describes himself as a Cold War hawk who became a post–Cold War dove. In this collection of...

December 21, 2011

Richard Betts on Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer

Earlier this year, Richard Betts, author of American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security, wrote a much-discussed article in Foreign Affairs exploring the controversial visions of world politics put forth by Francis Fukuyama, Samuel Huntington, and John Mearsheimer....

December 20, 2011

Richard Betts on How Defense Cuts Might Affect American Force

“I think we overestimate our soft power. Americans understandably like to think of themselves as a model for the world, as a society that other societies want to be like. To some extent, this is true, but we tend to...

December 19, 2011

Richard Betts on American Force

This week will be featuring American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security, by Richard Betts. In the book, Betts takes a skeptical look at the use of American force in the postwar era and analyzes, sometimes critically, the...