Walt’s starting point is the reality of American power. On this, his analysis is conventional. He says that the United States “enjoys an asymmetry of power unseen since the emergence of the modern state system.” For many analysts, particularly those attracted to Charles Krauthammer’s celebrated “unipolar moment” theory dating from 1990, this is where the […]
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