Misreading the Tea Leaves: U.S. Missteps on Foreign Policy

October 06, 2006

Stephen M. Walt, professor of international affairs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, traces the Bush administration's many foreign policy mistakes to a fundamental misreading of the way the world works.

The article was published in the Boston Globe, October 5, 2006, and can be read in its entirety here:

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/10/05/misreading_the_tea_leaves_us_missteps_on_foreign_policy/


Stephen M. Walt is a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy and a professor of international affairs at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of several books, including Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy.

Posted by coalition at October 6, 2006 10:22 AM

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