International friendship is a distinct type of interstate relationship, and that as such, it can contribute to capture aspects of international politics that ha

In the history of Western thought, friendship's relationship to politics is checkered. Friendship was seen as key to understanding political life in the ancient

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Based on a decade of direct diplomatic engagement with the United Nations, a decade of teaching on international relations, and another decade of research and t

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