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It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.
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I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students…
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Stalin’s postwar goals were security for himself, his regime, his country, and his ideology, in precisely that order.
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Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.
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The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was…
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The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
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Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.
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George W. Bush has much to evaluate: he has presided over the most sweeping redesign of U.S. grand strategy since the presidency…
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I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the…
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