Pax Corleone
By John C. Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell
Published in: THE NATIONAL INTEREST, NO.94
Date: March-April, 2008
CEPA's Wess Mitchell co-authored “Pax Corleone” in The National Interest with John C. Hulsman (German Council on Foreign Relations Scholar and a CEPA Advisory Board Member). Hulsman and Mitchell use characters from the American classic The Godfather as metaphors to explain competing approaches to foreign policy. The authors posit that a flexible, realist approach to international relations will best serve U.S. interests, and that co-opting rising centers of power can “help to ensure that while it no longer enjoys the privileged status of hegemon, America is able to position itself, like the Corleones, as the next best thing: primus inter pares—‘first among equals.’”
Full Article: http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=17008