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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Short takes: Bloomberg on the Ground Zero mosque, the Celtics, and Iran

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Stephen M. Walt
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What was the Lebanese army thinking?

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Stephen M. Walt
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Rethinking the “nuclear revolution”

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Stephen M. Walt
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Debating Marc Lynch on Obama’s foreign policy failures

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Stephen M. Walt
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Obama is zero for four and Republicans are sitting pretty

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Back from the beach: My reading list

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Stephen M. Walt
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Hawks, doves, and realists

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Stephen M. Walt

Is legitimacy for real?

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Stephen M. Walt
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Why Top Secret America should be a Pulitzer candidate

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Stephen M. Walt

Digesting the Wikileaks document dump

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Stephen M. Walt
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Rushing to the polls

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Stephen M. Walt
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A strategy of staggering genius in Sudan?

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Stephen M. Walt

The problem with judging a blog by its commenters (updated)

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Stephen M. Walt
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Why realists don’t go for bombs and bullets

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Stephen M. Walt

The sun is shining on George Shultz

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