The Flight 93 Doctrine

Posted by on Aug 12, 2018 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments As presidencies approach their midpoints, pundits begin the inevitable search for that elusive creature: the doctrine. It’s often a quixotic quest, since presidents rarely boil down their foreign-policy visions — if they even have them — to some pithy essence. Then there’s Donald Trump. Conjuring up the current president’s foreign-policy doctrine is like arguing that the Teletubbies...
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Bernies of the World, Unite!

Posted by on Aug 7, 2018 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Right-wing populists are all the rage these days. Donald Trump and his spleen control the White House, while his counterparts have taken over in Italy, Hungary, Poland, Colombia, India, and elsewhere. Steve Bannon, Trump’s former Svengali, hopes to inspire a worldwide revolution of nationalism-inflected right-wing extremism. But what about left-wing populists? Bernie Sanders made an epic run...
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Trump’s Unileaderism

Posted by on Aug 7, 2018 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments In the wake of the disastrous G7 meeting in Canada and the successful summit in Singapore, it’s hard to know what to call U.S. foreign policy these days. It’s not just unilateralism, where Washington acts alone and allies be damned. Nor is it merely unipolarism, in which the United States targets all hegemonic challengers in an effort to preserve its position as the world’s dominant...
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The Disrupters-in-Chief

Posted by on Aug 4, 2018 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Imagine a trio of tech-savvy and entrepreneurial souls on the prowl for the next killer app. They’re staying up late in their dorm, or perhaps they’re celebrating at a nightclub after finishing their MBA program. They want to make money. They want to change the world. They want to create something that gets snatched up by the titans of e-industry for billions of dollars. They want to retire...
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The Banality of Haspel

Posted by on May 18, 2018 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Gina Haspel is a consummate professional who has served the U.S. intelligence community with distinction for more than 30 years. As the Trump administration’s nominee to head up the Central Intelligence Agency, Haspel has received endorsements from six former CIA directors, three former directors of national intelligence, and two former secretaries of state. It would be hard to find someone...
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With Tillerson Out, Trump’s Bringing Foreign Policy Deeper Into the Dark Side

Posted by on May 16, 2018 in Articles, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments The gloves are off in the White House now that Mike Pompeo is slated to replace Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. Whatever restraining influence Tillerson had on the president – and, frankly, it was minimal – Donald Trump is now about to veer headlong into the “dark side” of foreign policy, much as the George W. Bush administration did after September 11. When Trump appointed Tillerson...
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