foreign policy
On to chapter IV of From Colony to Superpower…Herring clearly prefers the last of the Virginia Dynasty to the previous two. Much of the credit for Monroe’s foreign policy competence.
Good diavlog. Watch the rest.
It’s difficult to exaggerate the degree to which Stephen Walt demolishes Josh Muravchik in their realism vs. neoconservatism exchange in the September National Interest. The prompt concerns which, of realism.
Atrios makes a point:From the perspective of US as imperial power the "'single-minded' focus on Iraq" has also been an utter disaster. For those who think that one way or.
Let me second Yglesias' recommendation of this Dave Meyer post on signaling. Meyer concentrates on the public relations aspect of signaling behavior in a democracy, but here are some assumptions.
Yglesias:But foreign policy questions are McCain's passion, he's chosen to put them at the center of his campaign, and there's really nothing at all Burkean about McCain's take on them..
Via Yglesias, Rodger Payne gives some solid reasons for preferring Obama to Clinton on Cuba policy:Last summer, however, Obama wrote an op-ed for the Miami Herald calling for the US.
Via Yglesias, Dean Baker has some tough words for the Washington Post and the Beltway media more generally:Rather than acknowledge that the experts on whom they rely had badly misunderstood.