People have been handwringing about the impending demise of the liberal international order for over a decade. But, since 2016, that handwringing has given way, at least in some circles, to full-scale panic. First...
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Note: as some of our readers know, I'm supposed to be writing a book (with Alexander Cooley) on the unravelling.
The idea of Putin as a master strategist, like a sock missing its match, keeps showing up now and again. Certainly, when compared to.
Scott's already posted about Trump's remarkable performance in Helsinki, which comes after his remarkable performances in London and in Brussels. Indeed, I almost worry that the appalling awfulness of the Helsinki summit will overshadow the horror show of Trump's behavior at the NATO summit and...
We need a formal name for the notion that, over time, Trump's behavior tends toward being indistinguishable from that of someone working on behalf of Moscow. It seems like more.
I had an exchange with a friend earlier today. They suggested that NATO's case of the Trumps is terminal. I disagreed,.
You just need to read this. A quick, unpleasant, taste: And he repeatedly argues against using the word "xenophobia," or the fear of foreigners, writing in side notes that he has concerns over "the malleability of the term now and in the future." "[W]hat real...
Natasha Bertrand has more on the fears of NATO allies about the upcoming summit and the Trump-Putin hobnob. After discussing Trump's latest tweet asserting.
Josh Rogin write in the Washington Post that: Trump has been publicly trashing the E.U. and NATO since his campaign, but the pace and viciousness of his attacks have increased..
I have a new piece, co-authored with Stacie Goddard, at Foreign Policy on the debate about "legitimating" North Korea. It's really less of an opinion article and more of an "academics do some explainer...
While many issues divide the progressive coalition—which I understand as an umbrella term for the center-left, left-liberals, democratic socialists, and various social-justice movements—international security and international political economy provide some.
One can understand Ecuador's desire to get him the hell out of there, but I suspect the Foreign Office did a little ROFLOLing.