Aviel Roshwald

Aviel Roshwald is <a href="http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/roshwaav/">professor</a> of history and director of the Master of Arts in Global, International, and Comparative History (MAGIC) program a

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