Why America’s Edge Will Probably Last This semester I taught Causes of War and Peace for the first time in over ten years. I can’t remember if this happened the last time I taught the class but this semester we seemed to talk a lot about potential hegemonic war between the U.S. and China. I […]
We are in a mini golden age of leftist foreign policy. This mini golden age is sadly not in the implementation of left wing foreign policies but rather in the writing and thinking about what a left wing foreign policy should be. The range of contributions are coming from Democratic candidates for President, to commentators […]
Gallup released its 2018 Global Leadership Survey yesterday and the results for the U.S. are, um, not good. The story highlights from Gallup tell the story: Median approval of U.S. leadership is 30%, down from 48% in 2016 U.S. approval dropped substantially in 65 countries and areas Germany’s leadership now tops that of U.S., China […]
Two interesting articles were published recently highlighting China’s opportunity to assume more leadership in global politics now that the U.S. is governed by an ignorant man child. The first by Evan Osnos in the New Yorker argues that America’s incoherent foreign policy under Trump has opened the door further for China to assume more global […]
In a previous post I wrote about Bernie Sander’s speech at Westminster College where he outlined his foreign policy vision. This post highlights the foreign policy of another old white socialist – Jeremy Corbyn! On December 10th, International Human Rights Day, Corbyn gave a speech to UN officials in Geneva outlining his vision for a new […]
(Image Source: https://www.h-schmidt.net/map/) Steve Saideman recently wrote a blog post about “Hegemonic Abdication Theory.” Driven to exasperation about the latest news on the gutting of the State Department, Saideman writes: “Looks like we need to develop some new theory as Trump/Tillerson/Kushner/etc are now doing something that might unprecedented: simply giving up a country’s position as the main […]
Bernie Sanders recently gave a speech on U.S. foreign policy at Westminster College in Missouri (same college that Churchill gave his Iron Curtain speech). In it Sanders outlined his views for what might be called a progressive foreign policy. As such it was great on vision but short on details. This is a problem for […]
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