The one year anniversary of the Trump administrations “travel ban” (first iteration) is approaching. The bugled role out of the executive order caused tremendous chaos at airports and border areas. The inherent racism of the order engendered a tremendous backlash against the policy as seen by the massive number of protests at airports and other […]
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 […]
I am a big fan of the political economist Mark Blythe. He recently gave a talk at my alma mater the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on, basically, how we got into this mess. The mess being Trump, Brexit, and the rise of populism around the world. You can watch the video here. The whole talk is […]
(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 […]
The New York Times, has a great story on how the term “fake news” has been increasingly used by authoritarians around the world to deflect criticism against them for their horrible policies: “President Trump routinely invokes the phrase “fake news” as a rhetorical tool to undermine opponents, rally his political base and try to discredit a mainstream […]
