Ishaan Tharoor has a very good discussion of the broader context of Trump’s meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda. Though accustomed to lectures from Brussels, Duda and his allies are hopin
Yesterday the White House ordered the U.S. embassy in Seoul to remove its #BlackLivesMatter banner, as well as a Pride flag that the embassy put up in May. In some respects, the last few weeks have be
Scott already posted about Trump’s decision to suspend funding to the World Health Organization (WHO). Not long after Trump announced his decision, Beijing offered its own moral and financial su
I’m sure it’s purely a coincidence that we’re getting reports like this shortly after Trump fired the Director of National Intelligence (over this very issue) and replaced him with a
Douglas London, a retired Senior CIA Operations Officer, has a disturbing – but not in a terribly surprising way – piece at Just Security. The gist is that Trump is obsessed with taking down ̶
This is a longish post from that I put up yesterday at the book website. Regular readers will notice that I hit on a number of themes, as well as specific ideas, that I’ve developed at LGM. Many
Christopher Federico gave me permission to pass along something he wrote on the Book of Face, which I think is a really good distillation of why Trump is so bad at foreign policy. It also tracks nicel
A new article in Foreign Policy by Colum Lynch and Robbie Gramer does a great job of summing up two reasons that the United States is losing influence over international ordering. The first is long-te