Richard N. Rosecrance

Summer 2005

Mergers and Acquisitions

Journal Article, National Interest, issue 80

By Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations

Fall 2001

"Has Realism Become Cost-Benefit Analysis? A Review Essay"

Journal Article, International Security, issue 2, volume 26

By Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations

The author applauds Llyod Gruber for offering new insights into why states join international and supranational institutions even when balance-of-power considerations would suggest they do otherwise.

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May-June 2012

"Rising Sun in the New West"

Magazine or Newspaper Article, American Interest, issue 5, volume 7

By Mayumi Fukushima, Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations and Yuzuru Tsuyama

In the 20th century, Japan was in many ways the weathervane of international politics. It will likely remain that in the 21st century. How so? As Europe and the United States cope with their difficulties, and as problems in China, India, Russia and elsewhere emerge more clearly, Japan is very likely to join a renascent West.

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May/June 2010

"Bigger is Better: A Case for a Transatlantic Economic Union"

Magazine or Newspaper Article, Foreign Affairs

By Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations

After World War II, "trading states" seemed to be charting a new path forward. But small was not beautiful. Even great powers found themselves negotiating larger markets through economic associations with others. It's time the United States became such a power.

July-August 2008

"Size Matters"

Magazine or Newspaper Article, The American Interest, issue 6, volume 3

By Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations

"As the American political system hurtles toward its quadrennial encounter with the oracle of democracy, it is worth our while to take stock of the country's place in a world beset by bewilderingly rapid change. (Heaven knows none of the candidates will bother to do this.) I want to suggest that an old yet generally neglected subject remains particularly relevant: the relationship between the size of political units and the effective scale of systems of economic production and exchange. Another way to describe this relationship is by recourse to the hoary scholarly phrase "political economy", a term of art that has unfortunately gone out of style...."

Winter 2010-11

"Center and China Foundation: Can Conflict Be Avoided Between U.S. and China?"

Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter

By Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations

Economic forecasts suggest that China will approximate U.S. economic power sometime in the 2020s, and the question arises: Can conflict then be avoided, or will we extend the litany of past conflicts?

January 23, 2012

"Reinventing Europe"

Op-Ed, ecfr’s blog

By Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations

"When Jean Monnet proposed the first integrative steps for Europe to take, he was thinking of creating a powerful economic instrumentality that would contend on equal terms with the then superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.  Now, if Europe and America pursue the closer economic union that Angela Merkel envisions, Europe can think of a new united West which can deal on equal terms with a rising but disunited East." 

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March 3, 2009

"U.S., E.U. World Community Organizers"

Op-Ed, The Providence Journal

By Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations

"In the Mideast, community organizing requires not a two-state solution, but an approximation to a two-state confederation. The Palestinians cannot survive (even geographically) without access to Israel and the outside world. Israel cannot continue its imperial role in the West Bank (and the use of force in Gaza), nor can it withdraw. Autonomy and exclusion is not possible for two such inextricably related foes. They can exist only together."

November 26, 2008

"In the Name of Peace, Israelis and Palestinians Should Become European"

Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor

By Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations and Ehud Eiran, Former Associate, International Security Program, 2010–2011; Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2005–2010

"...The dual identity of a supranational entity comprised of peaceful national states holds the answer for both sides' most profound concerns. For Israelis, EU membership offers physical security and permanent legitimacy. For Palestinians, membership means a territorial settlement, including a return, of sorts, of their lands through the new joint European source of security and authority over them."

February 15, 2007

"When Terrorism Succeeds -- and Fails"

Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor

By Richard N. Rosecrance, Adjunct Professor; International Security Program; Director, Project on U.S.-China Relations

Dissidents undermine their legitimacy by resorting to mass killings and extortion.