Stanley Hoffmann
Stanley Hoffmann is Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His forthcoming book is Chaos and Violence. (August 2006)
From the Review
August 10, 2006: The Foreign Policy the US Needs
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy by Francis Fukuyama
Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy by Stephen M. Walt
Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower by John Brady Kiesling
December 2, 2004: 'Out of Iraq' (letter)
October 21, 2004: Out of Iraq
June 12, 2003: America Goes Backward
November 1, 2001: On the War
May 20, 1999: What Is to Be Done?
July 17, 1997: Look Back in Anger
November 2, 1995: Dreams of a Just World
On Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1993 edited by Stephen Shute, edited by Susan Hurley
July 13, 1995: The New France?
March 3, 1994: France: Keeping the Demons at Bay
June 24, 1993: A UN Volunteer Military Force—Four Views
May 27, 1993: Goodbye to a United Europe?
February 11, 1993: An Appeal
November 5, 1992: Bush Abroad
Marching in Place by Michael Duffy, by Dan Goodgame
The Ruses for War: American Intervention Since World War II by John Quigley
The Shape of the New Europe edited by Gregory F. Treverton
Guardians of the Gulf: A History of America's Expanding Role in the Persian Gulf by Michael A. Palmer
The Imperial Temptation: The New World Order and America's Purpose by Robert W. Tucker, by David C. Hendrickson
The Outlaw State: Saddam Hussein's Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis by Elaine Sciolino
Lines in the Sand by Deborah Amos
Mr. Bush's War: Adventures in the Politics of Illusion by Stephen R. Graubard
George Bush's War by Jean Edward Smith
Sound and Fury: The Washington Punditocracy and the Collapse of American Politics by Eric Alterman
The Commanders by Bob Woodward
It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography by General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, by Peter Petrie
Illusions of Triumph by Mohamed Heikal
Desert Shield to Desert Storm: The Second Gulf War by Dilip Hiro
Triumph Without Victory: The History of the Persian Gulf War US News and World Report
On Strategy II: A Critical Analysis of the Gulf War by Colonel Harry G. Summers Jr.
Storm over Iraq by Richard P. Hallion
Needless Deaths in the Gulf: Civilian Casualties During the Air Campaign and Violations of the Laws of War
Ethics and the Gulf War by Kenneth L. Vaux
Just War and the Gulf War by James Turner Johnson, by George Weigel
But Was It Just? Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf War by Jean Bethke Elshtain, by Stanley Hauerwas, by Sari Nusseibeh, by Michael Walzer, by George Weigel
Against the Fires of Hell: The Environmental Disaster of the Gulf War by T.M. Hawley
The Fire This Time by Ramsey Clark
Deterring Democracy by Noam Chomsky
The Gulf War and the New World Order edited by Haim Bresheeth, edited by Nira Yuval-Davis
War and the Media by Philip M. Taylor
Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War by John R. MacArthur
The Media and the Gulf War: The Press and Democracy in Wartime edited by Hedrick Smith
A Search for Enemies by Ted Galen Carpenter
Designing Defense for a New World Order by Earl Ravenal
Defense for a New Era: Lessons of the Persian Gulf War by Les Aspin, by William Dickinson. the House Armed Services Committee
May 28, 1992: France Self-Destructs
April 9, 1992: Delusions of World Order
January 17, 1991: The Price of War
January 18, 1990: A Plan for The New Europe
November 23, 1989: The Perfect In-and-Outer
From Hiroshima to Glasnost: At the Center of Decision, A Memoir by Paul H. Nitze, with Ann M. Smith, by Steven L. Rearden
April 27, 1989: 'Do Nuclear Weapons Matter?': An Exchange
February 2, 1989: Do Nuclear Weapons Matter?
Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years by McGeorge Bundy
December 22, 1988: The Election and the Future: A Symposium
August 18, 1988: The Big Muddle in France
May 12, 1988: Neither Hope nor Glory
Au Revoir Les Enfants a film directed by Louis Malle, screenplay by Louis Malle
January 21, 1988: Coming Down from the Summit
November 19, 1987: 'The Israeli Connection' (letter)
October 8, 1987: The 'War for Washington'
The Israeli Connection: Who Israel Arms and Why by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
The Lobby: Jewish Political Power and American Foreign Policy by Edward Tivnan
May 28, 1987: The Great Pretender
Reagan's America: Innocents at Home by Garry Wills
May 7, 1987: Reagan's Underworld
Report of the President's Special Review Board by John Tower, by Edmund S. Muskie, by Brent Scowcroft
The Tower Commission Report with an introduction by R.W. Apple Jr.
November 20, 1986: An Icelandic Saga
September 25, 1986: The Odd Couple
April 10, 1986: Monsieur Taste
Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu, translated by Richard Nice
January 16, 1986: Fog Over the Summit
November 8, 1984: Semidetached Politics
September 27, 1984: Mitterrand vs. France?
May 31, 1984: The Vicar's Revenge
Caveat: Realism, Reagan, and Foreign Policy by Alexander M. Haig Jr.
December 8, 1983: Raymond Aron (1905–1983)
September 29, 1983: In Search of a Foreign Policy
Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser, 1977-1981 by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Hard Choices: Critical Years in America's Foreign Policy by Cyrus Vance
Thinking About National Security: Defense and Foreign Policy in a Dangerous World by Harold Brown
August 12, 1982: Year One
The Heights of Power: An Essay on the Power Elite in France by Pierre Birnbaum, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
The Wheat and the Chaff by François Mitterrand, translated by Richard S. Woodward, translated by Concilia Hayter, translated by Helen R. Lane, With an introduction by William Styron
Problems of Contemporary French Politics by Dorothy Pickles
April 29, 1982: The Return of Henry Kissinger
Years of Upheaval by Henry Kissinger
February 4, 1982: Reagan Abroad
October 8, 1981: The Case of Prof. Stastny (letter)
June 25, 1981: France: The Big Change?
April 30, 1981: Foreign Policy: What's to Be Done?
April 16, 1981: The New Orthodoxy
March 5, 1981: The 'Praxis' Philosophers (letter)
December 4, 1980: The New Plight of the Praxis Professors (letter)
November 20, 1980: The Unhappy Choice
July 17, 1980: The Crisis in the West
March 6, 1980: Reflections on the Present Danger
December 6, 1979: The Case of Dr. Kissinger
White House Years by Henry Kissinger
June 28, 1979: The Crime of Cambodia
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia by William Shawcross
November 23, 1978: Boggled (letter)
November 9, 1978: Who Said No?
Resistance in Vichy France: A Study of Ideas and Motivation in the Southern Zone 1940-1942 by H.R. Kedward
August 17, 1978: Who Can Salvage Peace?
Decade of Decisions: American Policy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1967-1976 by William B. Quandt
Israel: The Embattled Ally by Nadav Safran
July 14, 1977: 'Veritas' at Harvard: Another Exchange
May 29, 1975: Plight of the Kurds (letter)
February 8, 1973: After the Fall
Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944 by Robert O. Paxton
February 24, 1972: De Gaulle Redux
Memoirs of Hope: Renewal and Endeavor by Charles de Gaulle, translated by Terence Kilmartin
Les Chênes qu'on abat… by André Malraux
March 27, 1969: The Ethics of Intervention (letter)
February 1, 1968: Memoirs of a Disappointed Man
Resistance: The Political Autobiography of Georges Bidault translated by Marianne Sinclair
February 20, 1964: Canard
The Trial of Charles de Gaulle by Altred Fabre-Luce
From New York Review Books
 | America Goes Backward "Wrong assumptions, immoderate and confused ends, served by a mixture of counterproductive, inadequate, mismanaged, and, at times, scandalous means": Stanley Hoffmann's verdict on the US invasion of Iraq carries an uneasy echo of his view of the US failure in Vietnam. |
Books by Stanley Hoffmann
The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics (2002)
World Disorders: Troubled Peace in the Post-Cold War Era (1998)
The Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention (1996)
The European Sisyphus: Essays on Europe, 1964-1994 (1995)
Political Ethics of International Relations (1988)
Janus and Minerva: Essays in the Theory and Practice of International Politics (1987)
The Marshall Plan: a Retrospective (1984)
Dead Ends: American Foreign Policy in the New Cold War (1983)
Building the Peace: U.S. Foreign Policy for the Next Decade (1982)
Duties Beyond Borders: On the Limits and Possibilities of Ethical International Politics (1981)
The Impact of the Fifth Republic on France (1981)
Culture and Society in Contemporary Europe: a Casebook (1981)
Primacy Or World Order: American Foreign Policy Since the Cold War (1978)
Contemporary Theory in International Relations (1977)
Decline Or Renewal? France Since the 1930s (1974)