Stephen M. Walt

Stephen M. Walt is a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University.

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The Way We Were

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NATO Owes Putin a Big Thank-You

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The Top 10 Questions About the World’s Biggest Problems

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Is Barack Obama More of a Realist Than I Am?

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Double Diss

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Do No (More) Harm

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It’s Not the Guns of August — It’s the Trenches of October

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The Perils of an Itchy Twitter Finger

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Let Tehran’s Atomic Clock Keep Ticking

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There’s No Partnership in Pivot

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Democracy, Freedom, and Apple Pie Aren’t a Foreign Policy

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Being a Neocon Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

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Take 2 Ambien and Call Me When It’s Over

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No-Bluff Putin

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What Obama Should Say at West Point, But Won’t

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