Diplomatic success with Russia requires recognizing the limits of U.S. power in Europe. The architect of the Marshall plan understood that; today's diplomats should heed his lesson.
LONDON One of the regrettable consequences of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was the advent of the pseudoscience known as geopolitics. Drawing inspiration from Darwin’s concepts of “natural selection” and “survival of the fittest”, the progenitors of geopolitics argued that all of history was shaped by a competitive “struggle of nations”.
LONDON One of the regrettable consequences of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was the advent of the pseudoscience known as geopolitics. Drawing inspiration from Darwin’s concepts of “natural selection” and “survival of the fittest”, the progenitors of geopolitics argued that all of history was shaped by a competitive “struggle of nations”.