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Stephen Wertheim

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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
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 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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Why Is America the World’s Police?

A new book explains how U.S. political elites sold the UN to the public as a route to global peace, while all along wanting it as a cover for militarization.

by Sam Lebovic via Boston Review on October 19, 2020

Photo of George Bush giving a speech.

Why Did the United States Invade Iraq? The Debate at 20 Years.

The invasion of Iraq is the most important foreign policy decision by a U.S. president in the 21st century, so the surfeit of analysis should surprise no one.

by Joseph Stieb via Texas National Security Review on June 6, 2023

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First-Person Shooter Ideology

The cultural contradictions of Call of Duty.

by Daniel Bessner via The Drift on February 2, 2021

American Imperialism

Warfare State

Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.

by Thomas Meaney via London Review of Books on October 28, 2020

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The Conceit of American Indispensability

As we mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must not presume that the US remains the benevolent center of global politics.

by Sam Klug via Boston Review on August 18, 2020

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