After two decades of almost uncontested American hegemony, the sole superpower of our age is in decline. Or so we are told. The financial meltdown; the rise of China; the failed foreign policies of President Bush or Obama, depending on from which side of the aisle you approach the problem — all seem to indicate […]
Washington’s latest approach to the Iranian missile threat seems to be rather an old-fashioned one: isolating the problem (financially for instance) and attempting to destabilize it from within — in other words: containment. Danielle Pletka, vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, writing for The Washington Post, isn’t having […]
There isn’t necessarily a tension between idealism and pragmatism in foreign affairs, the secretary argues.
Meet the men and women who will run America’s foreign policy.
South Dakota Senator John Thune may be charming and attractive but he currently lacks presidential vision.
Writing in July 2008, retired United States Army General Barry McCaffrey, a Gulf War veteran and critic of the initial American strategy in Iraq, assessed the war in Afghanistan and concluded the following. “Afghanistan is in misery.” Life expectancy is low and violence and crime are rampant. At the time, McCaffrey expected Afghan governance to […]
The White House announces plans to work toward a form of “collaborative democracy”.
Fears of Barack Obama neglecting Europe in favor of the Far East seem exaggerated.
The American president outlines his vision for a world at peace.
China is highly unlikely to achieve naval parity with the United States for another forty years.
Republican opposition to health-care reform reminded Harry Reid to legislators who “belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery.”
In the tar pit that is South Asia, there is only one stable democracy. It is also an emerging superpower.
Henry Kissinger believes “an international political regulatory system” is imminent.
China can lean on Pakistan to resolve the war in Afghanistan.
Participate? Why? You’ve got enough people in your movement that I shouldn’t have to participate. I don’t need to join your group, you guys will do the work for m– A free glossy magazine? Group potlucks? A tote bag with a logo on it? Why didn’t you say so?! I’m in! The above is just […]
