A new issue of World Policy Journal is out. From l'espacepolitique, Martin Muller (St Gallen): Doing Discourse Analysis in Critical Geopolitics; Gertjan Dijkink (Amsterdam): Territorial Shock: Toward a Theory of Change; and Pascal Venier (Salford): Main Theoretical Currents in Geopolitical Thought in the Twentieth Century. A U.S. neo-con fantasy gone very wrong: Nation-building in Afghanistan and Iraq is a failed ideological experiment. Why NATO Survives: A skeptic may be forgiven for asking why the NATO Alliance is still needed in the 21st century. A review of Marxism and World Politics. Where do bad ideas come from and why don't they go away? Stephen Walt wants to know. An interview with John Mearsheimer, author of Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics (and more and more). American spy technologies gather intelligence in vast quantities, yet US foreign policy is rife with unqualified pseudo-experts — to know or not to know? A review of How to Run the World: Charting A Course to the Next Renaissance by Parag Khanna (and more). Chicken Little: The 9 most annoying sky-is-falling cliches in American foreign policy. A review of The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas by Steven Weber and Bruce Jentleson. A review of Theories of International Politics and Zombies by Daniel Drezner (and more and more and more and more). Four new books by Mark Malloch Brown, Joseph Nye, Gideon Rachman and Richard Youngs watch the pendulum of geopolitics as it swings from state to citizen and west to east (and more and more). From Military Review, Amitai Etzioni on the coming test of U.S. credibility: How the United States responds to challenges by Iran and North Korea has strong implications for its credibility. Stand alone: Thanassis Cambanis on the case for a new isolationism (and more).
