Outside the Beltway

While our leaders may not be fully trustworthy, they, not disgruntled low level employees, are best positioned to decide.

Syria isn’t Libya.

My latest for The National Interest, “Kenneth Waltz’s Crucial Logic,” has posted.

My latest for The National Interest, “Never Again, Except This Time,” has posted.

My latest for The National Interest, “Why Terrorists Are Worse Than Guns,” has posted.

My latest for The National Interest, “It’s Not Too Soon to Tell,” has posted.

My latest for The National Interest, “Ignoring the Hagel Hearing Farce,” has posted.

My latest for The National Interest, “Obama Doctrine, Reagan Doctrine,” is out.

Republican opposition to defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel reveals just how far the party’s thinking has drifted on foreign policy.

My first piece for the New York Daily News, “A Drone Strike on Democracy,” has posted.

The Republican Party needs a new message on foreign policy that is true to the conservative principles of the base and yet has a broad appeal to the American public.

My latest for The National Interest, “Why NATO Should Have Won the Nobel,” is out.

My latest for The New Republic, “America’s Scandalous Drone War Goes Unmentioned in the Campaign,” is out.

My latest for The Atlantic, “What Would Romney’s Foreign Policy Look Like?” has posted.

My latest for The National Interest, “Freedom of Speech and Religion in Egypt and Libya,” has posted.

My latest for World Policy Review, “Oversight or Not, Drones Are Here to Stay,” has posted.

My latest for The Atlantic continues the debate over work-life balance spawned by Anne-Marie Slaughter’s cover story “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All.”

My latest for The National Interest, “Ankara Puts NATO on Speed Dial,” has been posted.

My first piece for the Christian Science Monitor, co-authored with my Atlantic Council collegue Barry Pavel, has been posted.

My latest for The National Interest,Insurmountable Obstacles in Afghanistan, has been posted.

My latest for The National Interest, “Ending the Afghan Slog,” has posted.

Everything the critics say about the decision is right–and so is the decision.

My latest for The Atlantic: “Some Reasons Not to Worry About Republican Foreign Policy Craziness”

My latest for The Atlantic: “For Europe, Some Fear a Conflict Between Union and Democracy”

Rush Limbaugh, who three years ago said Mitt Romney embodied all three legs of the conservative stool today declared that Romney is not a conservative. He was right both times.

My latest for The Atlantic, “Romney’s Realist Foreign Policy Is a Lot Like Obama’s,” has been posted.

I will appearing on “Power Play with Chris Stirewalt” on Fox News Live this morning discussing America’s ten years in Afghanistan and other topics.

My latest for The Atlantic, “The Thorniest Question: When Can a President Order an American Killed?” has been posted.

NATO is still seen as essential by 62 percent of both EU and U.S. respondents, demonstrating that the transatlantic military bond is still, despite a rough decade, firmly entrenched in American and European views of the world.

My first piece for CNN has been posted at Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square.

My latest for The National Interest is posted under the somewhat misleading headline “NATO Fails in Libya.”

The Atlantic has published an essay I wrote yesterday morning titled “Libya After Qaddafi: Lessons from Iraq 2003.”

My latest piece for The Atlantic, “Is the U.S.-European Relationship Really in Decline?” is posted.

Why the United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades.

A version of a piece I wrote Wednesday, titled “NATO’s Death Greatly Exaggerated,” has finally been published at Foreign Policy under the title “Back in the Saddle: How Libya Helped NATO Get Its Groove Back.”

My first piece for The American Conservative, which they’ve titled “War Isn’t for Everyone–The military needs civilian control, not citizen soldiers,” is in the May issue.

World Politics Review has published a special issue on “NATO’s Identity Crisis” ahead of next month’s Lisbon summit and the unveiling of a new Strategic Concept. I contributed the lead essay, “NATO in an Age of Austerity.”

OTB’s James Joyner and Salon’s Glenn Greenwald discuss WikiLeaks and its implications for journalism on Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story.”