It appears that former Washington governor Gary Locke will be the new US ambassador to China. This makes so much more sense than Jon Huntsman. See also Thomas Barnett on 10 reasons the US is eager to demonize China.
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While I would like to believe the argument made here by Max Bergman, I'm afraid I'm a good deal less optimistic regarding the influence of Heritage: The hard right Heritage.
Finished now with final exams, the giving, the grading, etc. I posted my National Security Policy final exam over at ID, along with some thoughts about the comprehensive exam process.
I just want to draw everyone's attention to the comment thread of this post. The post itself isn't particularly interesting, but the comment thread is fascinating in that it reads almost as a direct mirror image of dozens of comment threads that you'd find on...
If you believe that US foreign policy can accomplish anything positive (and I do) then Richard Holbrooke's loss is sad and unfortunate.
My latest column at WPR involves Wikileaks and North Korea: Of course, the collapse of North Korea would require intense negotiations between all of the major regional actors, including Japan,.
As has been noted in several places, this is one hell of an interesting cable. The upshot is that South Korean officials seem to believe that North Korea will collapse in a fairly short interval after the death of Kim Jong Il, and that a...
This goes up on the office door.
Some damage is hard to fix. The UK government needs to be "less deferential" towards the US and more willing to say no to Washington, a group of MPs have.
A life like Al Haig's couldn't help but to touch so many people. I most fondly remember his failed 1988 campaign for the Republican nomination for President, where he managed to place substantially behind Pete du Pont in the Iowa caucus. In comments, feel free...
Kroenig, via Yglesias:The United States’ global power-projection capability provides Washington with a significant strategic advantage: It can protect, or threaten, Iran and any other country on the planet. An Iranian.
Nauru has just become the first country to recognize Kosovo, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia. Unfortunately, Nauru switched its diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to the PRC in 2002, meaning that it.