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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No Surprises in Egypt

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Stephen M. Walt
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Photo: PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images

America’s Paranoid ‘Stop and Frisk’ on a Global Scale

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Stephen M. Walt
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Photo thumbnail: Lambert/Getty Images

What to Do with the NSA

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Stephen M. Walt
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Wikimedia

Short Takes on Recent Events

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Stephen M. Walt
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Congress to Iran: Drop Dead

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Stephen M. Walt

Chuck Hagel Is Looking for a Few New Ideas

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Stephen M. Walt
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Photo thumbnail: Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

What Middle East Peace Requires: Magnanimity

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Stephen M. Walt
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Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images

‘They’re Baaack…’: The Rebirth of al Qaeda?

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Stephen M. Walt
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HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images

Our One-Sided War on Terror

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Stephen M. Walt

Why We Don’t Need to Worry About a ‘Nuclear Handoff’

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Stephen M. Walt

Against Linkage

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Stephen M. Walt

Faith Over Experience

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Stephen M. Walt

On ‘Activist’ Journalism

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Stephen M. Walt
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Photo: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images

A Midsummer’s Night Rant — and Question for Obama

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Stephen M. Walt
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Making Lemonade in the Middle East

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Stephen M. Walt
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