Aviel Roshwald

Aviel Roshwald is professor of history and director of the Master of Arts in Global, International, and Comparative History (MAGIC) program at Georgetown University. Among his books is The Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Nato, the west and Russia: from peril to progress

The phenomenon of "imperial overstretch" was defined and analysed by the Yale historian Paul Kennedy in his acclaimed study The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987)

By Aviel Roshwald

/ 23 Sep 2008