In this paper, John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago's Department of Political Science and Stephen M.Walt of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government contend that the centerpiece of U.S. Middle East policy is its intimate relationship with Israel. The authors argue that although often justified as reflecting shared strategic interests or compelling moral imperatives, the U.S. commitment to Israel is due primarily to the activities of the “Israel Lobby." This paper goes o...| www.hks.harvard.edu
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Washington demonstrated how a geographic and spatial understanding of geopolitics that privileges America’s location in North America is preferable to a sentimental and ideological conception of foreign policy.| The Institute for Peace and Diplomacy - l’Institut pour la paix et la diplo...
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Mirroring liberal interventionist pieties is not the way forward for American diplomacy.| The American Conservative