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The key is not to focus disproportionate attention on Israel, but to ask why Israel gets as much aid as it does, says Walt.
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Walt worries about the “cult of irrelevance” in universities.
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What used to be the provenance of the wealthy and powerful is now much more democratized, says Walt.
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Are the post-War structures sufficiently inclusive of new powers?
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One of the problems Walt foresees is how to convince the most advanced societies that are consuming most of the resources to use less.
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There is an issue of equality and inequality on a global scale which is compounded by the fact that, increasingly, people who are further down the scale are increasingly aware […]
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Walt speaks to the growing immediacyto address the planet’s carrying capacity.
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A broader world view suggests that the end of the Cold War left the United States in a position of unprecedented great power unseen since the Roman Empire.
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Despite our common traits, we divide ourselves up into different tribes, says Walt.
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American military power, says Stephen Walt, should be first and foremost defensive.
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Walt predicts that America will have to do a lot of adjustment in the next 30 or 40 years.
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The Israeli lobby does not do anything substantially different from other special interest groups, Walt says, but they do tend to go after their critics with special zest.
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Walt learned early on that Wiemar intellectuals behaved irresponsibly by disengaging from politics.
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Over time, the Israel lobby has come to play a very influential role in American politics—and has had a pretty dramatic effect on what the United States does in the […]
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We are living in a world now which forces us to change more rapidly than we used to.
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World politics and human nature are such that you can’t assume that virtue will triumph. Human beings are flawed, they make mistakes; some of them are deeply flawed and do […]
