Ugly: when status quo apologists lash out at conservative restrainers
A recent QI panel featuring critics of the internationalist order on the right drew special fire, along with ad hominem attacks.
A recent QI panel featuring critics of the internationalist order on the right drew special fire, along with ad hominem attacks.
Leading by example is far more effective than a heavy-handed response to Lukashenko’s abuses.
A new book tries, but largely fails, to bridge the gap between two camps of US grand strategy.
The late historian Paul Schroeder offered insights into how to bring Russia into a collective security arrangement.
If post-Cold War US foreign policy wasn’t intended to seek monsters to destroy, it is certainly created them.
Biden should reject the Trump administration’s new actions on US-Taiwan relations.
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies launches a PR push in apparent concern that endless war is not popular.
The Quincy Institute’s report outlines a shift in the direction of U.S. foreign policy, advocating for a dramatic decrease in America’s military footprint in the Middle East and in favor of greater diplomatic engagement with the region’s actors.
Can restraint in foreign policy include the goal of decolonization for Guam? Can it be in the U.S. national interest to allow Guam to choose between becoming a state of the union, a freely associated state such as the Republic of the Palau, or an independent country?
Progressives must, therefore, make a concerted effort at real influence in a Biden administration and at narrowing the space for the Never Trumpers.
What McMaster and other members of the “blob” ignore is that it is the U.S. that is increasingly seen as a destabilizing force by allies and multilateral institutions.
The massive resources allocated to both local police and the U.S. military create supply side pressures to find, if not create, enemies.
The Trump administration appears to be sacrificing long-term security goals for short-term economic gains.
The U.S.’s military-first approach to counterterrorism in Africa has failed.
Once the U.S. military is deployed somewhere around the world, the Blob is gonna work pretty hard to prevent you from bringing them back.
Criticism of Donald Trump’s foreign policy often ignores the illiberal and undemocratic underbelly of Pax Americana.
If a restrained U.S. foreign policy means pulling back on security commitments around the world, might that result in nuclear weapons proliferation? And is that a bad thing?
Military, diplomatic, historical, and environmental imperatives dictate that the U.S. disengage militarily from the volatile Taiwan issue. Washington should instead focus on facilitating a compromise.
We shouldn’t be too surprised that the Trump administration even mischaracterizes the theories behind its policies.
Mike Pompeo has hijacked the words ‘realism’ and ‘restraint’ to confuse his audience and make Trump’s foreign policy sound like it squares with the policies most Americans want.
The China debate is in need of a revolution in thinking and restrainers are the group best positioned to lead it.