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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Do the American people support the ‘special relationship?’

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Stephen M. Walt
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Dam if you do, dam if you don’t

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Stephen M. Walt

Foreign policy on the cheap

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Stephen M. Walt

Some sober reading for Memorial Day

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Stephen M. Walt
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Why American leaders like being #1

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Stephen M. Walt
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Robert Gates’ Farewell Address

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Stephen M. Walt

‘The smallest minds and cowardliest hearts’: Is Congress clapping for apartheid?

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Stephen M. Walt
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The Choice

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Stephen M. Walt

If you don’t expect much, it’s hard to be disappointed

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Stephen M. Walt

Another major policy speech on the Middle East? Yawn

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Stephen M. Walt

Imperial secrecy

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Stephen M. Walt

Trapped

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Stephen M. Walt
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Twilight for Qaddafi?

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Stephen M. Walt
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In the war of American decline, should we fight battles at home or abroad?

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Stephen M. Walt
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On Palestinian unity

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