I've written before about the Trump administration's reckless and dangerous assault on America's diplomatic power. Our diplomats are the lifeblood of extensive international networks that the United States uses to mobilize international support for its foreign-policy goals. In recent history, declining great powers have been able to...
geopolitical suicide
Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman have been doing important work on what they call "weaponized interdependence": Globalization has transformed the dynamics of security. In Rosa Brooks’ (2016) evocative description, over.
"We have to believe that at some point, common sense will prevail. But we see no sign of that in this action today by the US administration," Canadian PM Trudeau.
I've been working on a post detailing the ways that the Trump Administration is destroying the State Department, but it looks like I can outsource it to this Foreign Policy article.