Tag: foreign policy
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A Green Future or a Lifetime of Lockdowns?
By Iona Volynets // With the upcoming COP 26 conference, Biden has an opportunity to reassert his dedication to stopping climate change. He can make good on his financial promises to the Global South and Amazon rainforest, introduce policy to act on deforestation, and clarify specifics for many of his other vague policies.
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Explainer: What is the NDAA?
The NDAA is the country’s annual defense spending authorization bill. But what exactly is in the NDAA? How does it work? And why does it matter?
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3 Questions with Andrew Bacevich, Quincy Institute President
“Today’s China does not remotely compare to the USSR of the 1950s and 1960s. No doubt the PRC is a competitor. But the terms of the competition are radically different from what they were during the Cold War.”
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A Sea Change: France, Aukus and the Future of American Security
Daniel Durgavich // If the US is to continue to be able to secure its interests, it must be willing to draw hard lines with regards to its partners. It cannot constantly be trying to placate partners who are stridently against those interests, no matter the history.
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Missing in Action: Congress in Foreign Policy
By Ben Mainardi // It is just as important to recognize that Congress, spanning two decades of elected officials, has been just as integral to perpetuating national security blunders in the twenty-first century as the executive officials more directly presiding over them.
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Realism, Restraint and Goldilocks
By Austin Hillebrandt // It is in America’s interest to reject both Trump’s hot-headed bombasts and Biden’s stone-cold ignorance. The only foreign policy that is ‘just right’ for America is one of restraint.
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The Age of Nation Building is Over: American Grand Strategy After Afghanistan
By Daniel Baxter // The tragic end of America’s 20 year building project in Afghanistan and subsequent Taliban takeover of the country should mark an important turning point in American grand strategy.
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An Surprising Source of Foreign Policy Wisdom: St. Benedict
By Liam Miller // America succeeded not because of its hard power and military capabilities but rather through soft power and moral leadership actions. There must be a return to this style of leadership.
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The Only Known Known: Rumsfeld, Iraq and the End of Both
By Scott Strgacich
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Long Wars and Their Discontents
By Scott Strgacich