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James W. Carden, Chris Mott, Martin Sieff, Peter Kuznick, Douglas Macgregor, Pelle Taylor“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much" - Walter Lippmann. Foreign Affairs and US Politics. Standing athwart Neoconservatism and Liberal Interventionism.
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James W. Carden is the editor of The Realist Review. He is the author of the forthcoming book, The Great Betrayal: How the Democrats Became the Party of War.
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“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much" - Walter Lippmann. Foreign Affairs and US Politics. Work has appeared in The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, The Nation, The Washington Post and The Guardian.
Chris Mott is an author and geopolitical scholar at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, a freelance geopolitical risk analyst, and a regular contributor at AGON.
Martin Sieff has 3 Pulitzer nominations for International Reporting, covered 70 countries and 12 wars. He was a Senior Foreign Correspondent for The Washington Times, Chief News Analyst for United Press International and is the author of nine books.
Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. Co-author with Oliver Stone The Untold History of the United States, books and documentary film series
Col (ret) Douglas Macgregor is a decorated combat veteran, the author of 5 books and a PhD. He served as senior advisor to the acting Secretary of Defense during the Trump Administration.
British-Swedish journalist, historian, and documentary filmmaker based in Sweden. Author of works on Olof Palme and Dag Hammarskjöld. Co-hosts the geopolitics podcast Capitals Uncovered.
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