Walter Russell Mead
Walter Russell Mead is the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow in U.S.
foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. This essay is
adapted from his forthcoming book, Power, Terror, Peace, and War:
America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk (New York: Knopf, 2004).
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