Educator - August 2008

Dear Educator,

The July/August 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs includes articles by a number of prominent scholars on the most provocative new books in the field. In a fiery review of Robert Kagan's new book, Andrew J. Bacevich, of Boston University argues that "the chief foreign policy theorist of the neoconservative movement has chosen to put the [Iraq] war in his rearview mirror." And Eva Bellin, an associate professor at Hunter College, and Daniel C. Kurtzer, the former ambassador now teaching at Princeton University, praise two of the latest books on political reform and policy in the Middle East.

Also in this edition:

• Inside ForeignAffairs.org
• Faculty Spotlight — Seth Weinberger, Assistant Professor of Politics and Government, University of Puget Sound

Also, don't miss a lively debate over Jerry Muller's essay on the implications of ethnic conflict on geopolitics with contributions by James Habyarimana of Georgetown University, Macartan Humphreys of Columbia University, Daniel Posner and Arthur Stein of UCLA, Jeremy Weinstein of Stanford University, and Richard Rosecrance of Harvard University.

Best,
James F. Hoge, Jr.
Editor

p.s. Save the Date! Foreign Affairs invites you and your students to participate in a live conference call with Gideon Rose, managing editor, on October 16 to discuss the foreign policy debate of the night before! More information is forthcoming...

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Inside ForeignAffairs.org

Present at the Re-Creation

By Andrew J. Bacevich (Jul/Aug 2008)

Robert Kagan's Return of History ignores the Iraqi elephant in the room.

Democratization and Its Discontents

By Eva Bellin (Jul/Aug 2008)

Washington can promote political reform best by backing off.

Shortsighted Statecraft

By Daniel C. Kurtzer (Jul/Aug 2008)

Stopping three decades of unnecessary bungling.

Us and Them

By Jerry Z. Muller (Mar/Apr 2008)

Once ethnic nationalism has captured the imagination of groups in a multiethnic society, ethnic disaggregation or partition is often the least bad answer.

Is Ethnic Conflict Inevitable?

By James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel Posner, Jeremy Weinstein, Richard Rosecrance, Arthur Stein, and Jerry Z. Muller (Jul/Aug 2008)

Critics refute Muller's assumptions about ethnic conflict; Muller responds.

Faculty Spotlight — Seth Weinberger

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Some of Weinberger's most recent classes include Introduction to International Relations, Global Security, and Constitutional Law of U.S. National Security.

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Updates on classic Foreign Affairs articles

Taxing the Poor
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Full text of original essay (November/December 2002)

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