September 05, 2008
Foreign Policy and the Next President
After a week of tabloid voyeurism--I mean election watching-- I'm getting serious. I spent the past several months examining the Bush foreign policy legacy and the 2008 election, interviewing academics and top foreign policy officials from the past three presidential administrations. What I found was surprising: America’s forty-third president may go down as one of the most criticized in American...
August 20, 2008
Obama, McCain contrast on Russia
Gerald Seib points out it's not so much the response to the 3am phone call -- it's the policies that may help avoid the crisis and make it more or less manageable that distinguish the candidates.
August 12, 2008
Putin, power worship, and the right
Evil is not more powerful than good. To defeat Putin, we needn't become like Putin.
August 11, 2008
Is there anything to DO about Georgia?
Plan A: Admit Georgia to NATO membership, and tell Saakashvili we'll protect his independence but he can forget about South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Plan B: Admit Ukraine to NATO and ask Putin how he likes THEM apples.
August 10, 2008
Bush-Cheney failures and Russian Imperialism
Russian Imperialism has been enabled by Bush/Cheney policy disasters.
Imperialism
That's what it's called when a big country sends tanks into the territory of a smaller neighbor, blockades its costs, bombs one of its cities, and demands that its elected leader step aside as the price of peace.
June 27, 2008
May 01, 2008
An entangling alliance
The standoff in Abkhazia continues, and the rhetoric escalates. Whether arms and men are also building up, I couldn’t tell you, but you can find someone to posit whatever you want to be true. Russia started this latest dustup in reaction to NATO’s assuring Georgia of an offer of membership…some day. (By the Caucasian version of Occam’s Razor—never adduce a...
April 27, 2008
April 20, 2008
April 19, 2008
March 27, 2008
March 20, 2008
March 15, 2008
March 10, 2008
Alles klar Frau Kommissar?
Angela Merkel thinks Georgia shouldn't be in NATO. Well, isn't that special?
March 08, 2008
March 07, 2008
It's 3 a.m.--do you know where your campaign adviser is?
Susan Rice, the Bulworth of campaign advisers.
March 02, 2008
February 29, 2008
February 24, 2008
All politics is domestic
MSM campaign coverage doesn't pay enough attention to foreign policy. Those stories on how much crappy food they have to eat in Iowa don't just write themselves.
February 22, 2008
February 19, 2008
February 15, 2008
What's wrong with foreign-policy "realism"
American interests include, and require, earning the love and respect of the rest of the planet rather than its hatred and fear.
February 14, 2008
February 13, 2008
February 07, 2008
January 27, 2008
January 22, 2008
Democratize This
Democracy promotion is not a bad idea just because George W. Bush says it's a good one.
January 16, 2008
Get Realist
There's a good reason why so few foreign-policy realists get high-profile commentator gigs--but they're not an empty set.
