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Meeting of delegates to approve the Charter of the United Nations, San Francisco, 1945.

Origins of the UN: The US and USSR

The genesis of the United Nations came from the nations united as Allies against the Axis powers, but who really pushed the institution into being?

by Stephen Wertheim, Matthew Wills, Geoffrey Roberts via JSTOR Daily on February 9, 2025

Iraq and the Pathologies of Primacy

The flawed logic that produced the war is alive and well.

by Stephen Wertheim via Foreign Affairs on March 17, 2023

The sun setting over dozens of B-52 bombers waiting in the Arizona desert to be scrapped at the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center, Tucson, 1998

Who’s Afraid of Isolationism?

For decades, America’s governing elite caricatured sensible restraint in order to pursue geopolitical dominance and endless wars. At last the folly may be over.

by Stephen Wertheim via New York Review of Books on February 3, 2022

The wreckage of the Twin Towers on 11th September 2001.

The Legacy of 9/11

After 20 years of foreign policy failures following the attacks on the World Trade Center, America is finally rethinking its place in the world.

by Stephen Wertheim via Prospect Magazine on July 14, 2021

The Infinity War

We say we’re a peaceful nation. Why do our leaders always keep us at war?

by Samuel Moyn, Stephen Wertheim via Washington Post on December 13, 2019

When the World Tried to Outlaw War

What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?

by Stephen Wertheim via The Nation on November 8, 2018

Paens to the 'Postwar Order' Won't Save Us

A critique of a recent open letter by members of the foreign policy intelligentsia.

by Stephen Wertheim via War on the Rocks on August 6, 2018

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