James M. Lindsay
- : James M. Lindsay is Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Tom Slick Chair in International Affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. From 2003-2006, he was Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was previously Deputy Director and Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, and in 1996-1997, Director for Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. He is the author (with Ivo H. Daalder) of the award-winning America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy, which was released in a revised paperback edition in fall 2005 by John Wiley & Sons. Among his other books are Agenda for the Nation (with Henry Aaron and Pietro Nivola), Defending America: The Case for Limited National Missile Defense (with Michael E. O'Hanlon), and Congress and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy.
Fine-Tuning a Concert of Democracies
Thanks to Bruce for weighing in with his skepticism about a Concert of Democracies. It will come as no surprise that as thoughtful as his arguments were they did not persuade me to recant what Ivo and I wrote in...more »
Posted on December 19, 2006 2:00 PM
A Great Power Concert
Dan K. takes me to task for failing to discuss all possible forms of international cooperation in my earlier post making the case for a Concert of Democracies. Fair enough. I didn’t. Dan K favors the creation of a Concert...more »
Posted on December 13, 2006 3:12 PM
The Case for a Concert of Democracies
As Ivo noted in his initial post for this debate, he and I have argued in the pages of the American Interest and elsewhere for the creation of a Concert of Democracies. To be convincing, the case for uniting the...more »
Posted on December 11, 2006 6:44 PM
Lies and Beliefs
Thanks to all of you who commented on the excerpt that Ivo posted from America Unbound. The beef our critics have with us is that we don’t understand that George Bush and his advisers knew that Iraq had no weapons of...more »
Posted on October 28, 2005 8:40 AM
Words and Deeds Revisited
David Rohde has a piece in yesterday’s New York Times on Pakistan that is worth reading. The setup is an Islamic extremist insisting that the United States is helping Pakistani earthquake victims only because it wants to establish military bases...more »
Posted on October 27, 2005 6:29 PM
Clearing Brush
Ivo’s initial post prompted a fair amount of discussion. Thanks to all who posted. We will be expanding on the themes of America Unbound in the days to come. Here I want to respond to respond to some to the...more »
Posted on October 25, 2005 7:43 PM
Democratization or Human Rights? Both Actually
Welcome back, Anne-Marie. I'll take up your challenge on whether the United States should be pushing democracy or human rights. For my money, it's the wrong question to ask. It presumes that one necessarily comes at the expense of the other. They don't. ...more »
Posted on October 10, 2005 6:03 AM
An Epitaph for an Administration
Gideon Rose has a terrific review in today's Washington Post of George Packer's new book, The Assassin's Gate. I'm only about a third of the way through the book, but everything I have read so far confirms Gideon's assessment. What I liked most...more »
Posted on October 9, 2005 5:10 PM
Indonesia Revisited
Scott Atran has a good piece in today’s New York Times on Indonesia. I’d flag three paragraphs in particular:It cannot possibly be in the Indonesian government's interest to continue to shelter an organization [like Jemaah Islamiyah] with such violent intentions. But...more »
Posted on October 5, 2005 5:58 PM
Observations from Jakarta
While Karen Hughes was on her listening tour in the Middle East last week, Ivo and I conducted our own listening tour in Indonesia. We were in Jakarta to run a workshop for Indonesian officials looking for ideas on how...more »
Posted on October 3, 2005 11:24 AM
