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Zakheim talks about organizing support for the Falklands War, working for Casper Weinberger, and the IAI Lavi controversy of 1987.

Zakheim talks about his parents’ escape from the Ukraine and Lithuania.

The key is not to focus disproportionate attention on Israel, but to ask why Israel gets as much aid as it does, says Walt.

Walt worries about the “cult of irrelevance” in universities.

We need to be realistic about our goals, says Walt.

What used to be the provenance of the wealthy and powerful is now much more democratized, says Walt.

Are the post-War structures sufficiently inclusive of new powers?

One of the problems Walt foresees is how to convince the most advanced societies that are consuming most of the resources to use less.

There is an issue of equality and inequality on a global scale which is compounded by the fact that, increasingly, people who are further down the scale are increasingly aware […]

Walt speaks to the growing immediacyto address the planet’s carrying capacity.

A broader world view suggests that the end of the Cold War left the United States in a position of unprecedented great power unseen since the Roman Empire.

Despite our common traits, we divide ourselves up into different tribes, says Walt.

American military power, says Stephen Walt, should be first and foremost defensive.

Walt predicts that America will have to do a lot of adjustment in the next 30 or 40 years.

The Israeli lobby does not do anything substantially different from other special interest groups, Walt says, but they do tend to go after their critics with special zest.

Walt learned early on that Wiemar intellectuals behaved irresponsibly by disengaging from politics.

Over time, the Israel lobby has come to play a very influential role in American politics—and has had a pretty dramatic effect on what the United States does in the […]

We are living in a world now which forces us to change more rapidly than we used to.

Open discussion is critical, says Walt.

We shouldn’t be expecting perfection, Walt says.

World politics and human nature are such that you can’t assume that virtue will triumph. Human beings are flawed, they make mistakes; some of them are deeply flawed and do […]

The underdog.

How many people can the planet fit?

Walt aims for the non-polemical approach to opening discussion.

Walt applies both a theoretical knowledge about how international politics works and a careful analysis of particular circumstances to untangle or unravel specific puzzles that are facing foreign policy, usually […]

Walt describes how growing up in a priveleged Northern California family with a scientist father cultivated the idea that the highest pinnacle of human achievement doing was something involving ideas, […]

“Economics is a social science.”

“It’s the number of people.”

We should be thinking more about the “we” than just about the “me.”

Democracy in Cuba will be a work in progress for some time.