The idea of Putin as a master strategist, like a sock missing its match, keeps showing up now and again. Certainly, when compared to Trump Putin might as well be the second-coming of Otto Von Bismarck. But for all the...
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Scott's already posted about Trump's remarkable performance in Helsinki, which comes after his remarkable performances in London and in Brussels. Indeed, I almost worry that the appalling awfulness of the.
We need a formal name for the notion that, over time, Trump's behavior tends toward being indistinguishable from that of someone working on behalf of Moscow. It seems like more.
I had an exchange with a friend earlier today. They suggested that NATO's case of the Trumps is terminal. I disagreed, but suggested that a Trump victory in 2020 might very well render NATO largely irrelevant...
You just need to read this. A quick, unpleasant, taste: And he repeatedly argues against using the word "xenophobia," or the fear of foreigners, writing in side notes that he.
Natasha Bertrand has more on the fears of NATO allies about the upcoming summit and the Trump-Putin hobnob. After discussing Trump's latest tweet asserting.
Josh Rogin write in the Washington Post that: Trump has been publicly trashing the E.U. and NATO since his campaign, but the pace and viciousness of his attacks have increased. Just this week, at a rally in North Dakota, Trump said: “The European Union, of...
I have a new piece, co-authored with Stacie Goddard, at Foreign Policy on the debate about "legitimating" North Korea..
While many issues divide the progressive coalition—which I understand as an umbrella term for the center-left, left-liberals, democratic socialists, and various social-justice movements—international security and international political economy provide some.
One can understand Ecuador's desire to get him the hell out of there, but I suspect the Foreign Office did a little ROFLOLing at the thought of granting Julian Assange diplomatic immunity. The United Kingdom’s Foreign Office rejected...
The foreign policy community debate has led down some pretty interesting avenues, one of them being an interrogation of the idea that the United States has "vital interests". The short.
I had been planning to write a longer post on Ezra Klein's "anti-values" column from last week, but after reading Hilzoy, I find that I pretty much agree with everything.