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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Netanyahu’s Not Chickenshit, the White House Is

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Keep Calm and Carry On, Stephen Harper

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Uncle Sucker to the Rescue

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Much Ado About the Islamic State

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Competence Not Required

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Survey Says

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Hacks and Hired Guns

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The Way We Were

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NATO Owes Putin a Big Thank-You

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The Top 10 Questions About the World’s Biggest Problems

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Is Barack Obama More of a Realist Than I Am?

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Double Diss

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Do No (More) Harm

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It’s Not the Guns of August — It’s the Trenches of October

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The Perils of an Itchy Twitter Finger

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