Putin is discovering that overwhelming military power can be a curse
As Stalin learned in Finland, small countries can inflict serious damage on invading superpowers
What would Hobbes say about the pandemic? Governments should protect lives — and help the poor.
When a government fails to take seriously its mandate to protect the lives of its citizens, it flirts with inviting violent revolution, chaos and mass casualties, in his view.
40 years later, U.S.-China relations are rocky. Or not.
[caption id="attachment_80247" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping, right, meets
Can the president be indicted? Let’s see what the Greeks had to say about the rule of law.
[caption id="attachment_81978" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III
The McCain eulogies fit a long, classic tradition of political funeral orations
[caption id="attachment_77361" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Meghan McCain eulogizes her father, senator
Could the U.S. and China end up in a terrible war that neither wants?
[caption id="attachment_59010" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Chinese troops marching to commemorate the
Trump ‘tells it like it is.’ That’s not necessarily a good thing for democracy.
[caption id="attachment_36805" align="aligncenter" width="908"] Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks
How Thucydides helps explain Greece's problems with Germany
[caption id="attachment_21512" align="aligncenter" width="908"] Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis addresses
How Thucydides helps explain Greece’s problems with Germany
[caption id="attachment_21512" align="aligncenter" width="908"] Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis addresses
The 'documentary big bang' in nuclear weapons scholarship
[caption id="attachment_12832" align="aligncenter" width="460"] A nuclear explosion over Bikini Atoll
The ‘documentary big bang’ in nuclear weapons scholarship
[caption id="attachment_12832" align="aligncenter" width="460"] A nuclear explosion over Bikini Atoll
That Op-Ed by Putin: Where Is He Right, and Where Is He Wrong?
Here’s my quick and dirty run-down of Putin’s op-ed published in
What Political Science can give to policy makers
I agree with "what Erik says":https://themonkeycage.org/2010/12/is_political_science_too_hard_.html below about the benefits