Stephen M. Walt

Stephen M. Walt is a columnist at Foreign Policy and the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University.

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The World Can Have Peace and Prosperity, If It Wants

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Don’t Knock Offshore Balancing Until You’ve Tried It

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US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump visits the model of the Oval Office at the Gerald Ford Presidential Musuem in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on September 30, 2016. / AFP / Jewel SAMAD (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump visits the model of the Oval Office at the Gerald Ford Presidential Musuem in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on September 30, 2016. / AFP / Jewel SAMAD (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

10 Ways to Tell if Your President Is a Dictator

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Could There Be a Peace of Trumphalia?

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Will America’s Good Name Survive the 2016 Election?

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The Great Myth About U.S. Intervention in Syria

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The 2016 Epidemic of Afghan War Amnesia

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Why Are We So Sure Hillary Will Be a Hawk?

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The Broken Policy Promises of W. Bush, Clinton, and Obama

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My Top 5 Foreign-Policy Unicorns — and Why I Want to Kill Them

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The Countries With the Worst Bad Habits

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Choose Your Own Adventure: The Future of the World

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Donald Trump: Keep Your Hands Off the Foreign-Policy Ideas I Believe In

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The Madness of Crowds

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Introducing the Universal, All-Purpose Task Force Title Generator

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