Tag: Stephen M. Walt

  • Nation & World

    Memo to America: Not everyone wants to be like you

    Professor Stephen M. Walt’s new book, “The Hell of Good Intentions,” is a critique of American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War.

    7 minutes
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  • Nation & World

    The latest violence in the Middle East

    Following the July 9 airstrikes, Stephen M. Walt, the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the factors behind this latest outbreak of violence between Israel and Palestine and what the international community can do about it.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Lessons of the hunt

    Harvard foreign policy experts say the death of Osama bin Laden is a blow to al-Qaeda, and a sign of the vitality and persistence of U.S. anti-terror expertise. But it will also renew the debate over U.S.-Pakistan ties and may even set the stage for a season of reprisals against American interests.

    6 minutes