I read Stephen Walt’s Taming American Power on the plane forth and back from Norway this spring. The book describes different reactions to how American uses its power (which is also eminently described), arguing that preserving and/or reinforcing US hegemony is the aim.
According to Walt, countries follow a range of strategies to either endorse or [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Israel’
3 Apr
Taming American Power
1 Feb
The Israel lobby
Just finished skimming through The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by the (famous realists) Mearsheimer and Walt. They ask why U.S. support of Israel is so unconditional and enormeous compared to U.S. support to other democratic states, and find that this support cannot be justified on neither moral nor security grounds alone, but must [...]
