Why Bernie will win in 2020
While the coronavirus has accelerated Bernie-ism to take shape economically, it’s his foreign policy ideas that are the future of the U.S. abroad.
While the coronavirus has accelerated Bernie-ism to take shape economically, it’s his foreign policy ideas that are the future of the U.S. abroad.
By choosing an “America First” brand of exceptionalism and showing haughty disdain to the views and interests of its allies, the United States risks entering this new era in a much weakened position.
It was easy for Trump to dismiss the WHO because the UN has been a political punching bag in the US for so long.
Will China continue its economic rise? And will all U.S. leaders finally realize that climate change is truly an existential challenge?
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies gives Donald Trump and Mike Pompeo the ammo they need to see to it that Iran sees no relief during the COVID-19 crisis.
European governments should shift their central focus to proactively protecting and bolstering, rather than further squeezing, those Syrian societal forces that are still standing.
A threat like a global health pandemic doesn’t care about any American president’s sense of national supremacy.
Posen and Walt concurred that the American military presence in the Middle East greatly outmatches the region’s importance, and that it ought to be promptly reduced.
We should take German Chancellor Angela Merkel seriously when she said ‘the times in which we could completely depend on others are on the way out.’
Pulling funding for the World Health Organization follows Trump’s pattern of slowly dismantling multilateralism, which appears to be his ultimate goal.
The Hobbesian vision of the future international order can contribute to dismantling the multilateral liberal system, but it does not have an alternative vision to replace it beyond the classic ‘might makes right.’
In a post-COVID-19 world, U.S. national security strategy should be based on a just peace framework that constructively engages conflicts, breaks cycles of violence, and builds sustainable peace.
The “Blowback” series, comprising three volumes, remains a prime source for understanding the motives of American foreign policy in the Trump era and merits a retrospective appreciation.
In the upcoming coronavirus stimulus package, these officers and staff members should not only be given recognition for their heroism, but more importantly, they should be rewarded with hazard pay and provided the protective equipment they need.
The most devastating impact of coronavirus may stem from its function as a threat multiplier, much like climate change, which provides a stress test for the United States and for the global order — one that both are failing miserably.
The next president must anticipate resistance, both inside and outside government, to shifting away from counterterrorism national security posture.
President Eisenhower famously warned of the tradeoffs between foreign and domestic priorities, particularly when it comes to military spending.
Now is probably not the best time for the Defense Secretary to be tweeting about how nuclear weapons development is the Trump administration’s top priority.
The firing could be called a canary in the coal mine if Washington hadn’t already become littered with canary carcasses warning of a Trumpian dystopia devoid of truth and accountability.
If the coronavirus pandemic leads to partial deglobalization and delinkage, the U.S. could, if it chose, resist the urge to attempt managing stability in far flung places.
From the perspective of public discourse in the U.S., our globe-spanning, resource-draining military and security apparatus exists in an entirely parallel universe to the one most Americans experience on a daily level.