By Egor Spirin // Interventionists, of course, will inflate the threat to the liberal world order posed by restraint advocates in order to maintain a consolidated establishment in the face of a cumulative intellectual opponent.
Tag: Trump
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.
Long Wars and Their Discontents
By Scott Strgacich
The Balance of Power Never Left
By Samuel Leiter
The Populist Pushback on Climate Change
By Jan Gerber //
Analysis from Seoul: Second Trump-Kim Summit
By John Park //
Syria, Yugoslavia, and A Lesson for America
By Coleman Hopkins //
An (In)Visible Enemy: Climate Change
Thwaites Glacier. Image credit: NASA By Natalie Wu With the conclusion of the Iraq War and the winding down of the War in Afghanistan, there has been a new consensus in Washington D.C. that "great power competition” is replacing terrorism as the primary threat to U.S. national security. This viewpoint is most clearly articulated … Continue reading An (In)Visible Enemy: Climate Change
Violating the Iran Nuclear Deal: Reducing American Leverage
By Keith Blankfield Graffiti on the wall of the closed US embassy in Tehran. © David Holt On May 8, 2018, US President Donald Trump announced his decision to impose new sanctions on Iran, thus violating the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and jeopardizing the 2015 nuclear nonproliferation agreement between Iran and the West. Like … Continue reading Violating the Iran Nuclear Deal: Reducing American Leverage
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