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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I Changed My Mind…

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Bibi Blows Up the Special Relationship

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What Putin Learned From Reagan

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Why Arming Kiev Is a Really, Really Bad Idea

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What Would Ash Carter Do?

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If Only We’d Just Spent More Blood and Treasure in Yemen

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Think Before You March

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The Credibility Addiction

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My Greatest Hits (and Misses) of 2014

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A Christmas Pardon

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Failures to Launch

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Leaders in Glass Countries Shouldn’t Throw Stones

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10 Things World Leaders Are Thankful For

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The Top 5 Foreign Policy Lessons of the Past 20 Years

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The Big Counterterrorism Counterfactual

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