Being Good Neighbo(u)rs?
Something strange happened at the UN this past week: Canada ran for a non-permanent seat on the Security Council and, for the first time in more than 50 years, didn’t get it. Stranger still? It...
View ArticleA New Push on New START
(Credit: Politico) This past Tuesday, Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) came out against the consideration of New START during the lame duck session stating his desire for greater assurances of support from the...
View ArticleTalking North Korea
If you are looking for an illuminating bit of commentary on U.S.-North Korean relations in light of the North’s recent shelling of its southern neighbor from someone who knows quite a bit about the...
View ArticlePositive Steps From Belarus
(Courtesy: Google) A bit of good news on the diplomatic front: The U.S. has persuaded Belorussian President Alexander Lukashenko (known as Europe’s Last Dictator) to give up its stocks of highly...
View ArticleNew START Comes to the Floor
Today the U.S. Senate will finally take up New START. There will be a lot of activity on this issue until the final vote as amendments are considered. Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Richard Lugar...
View ArticleReviewing "After the Wall: A World United"
I had an opportunity to preview a new documentary that will premier on PBS entitled, After the Wall: A World United, which focuses on the political challenges that had to be overcome in order to...
View ArticleSOTU Review: America, the World, and Global Competition
To be fair, the White House was clear that President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday would not be focused on foreign policy, and so the basically-perfunctory treatment of international...
View ArticleCrisis and Opportunity: Next Steps on Egypt
The “Arab Revolt of 2011” continues to roil, and events are moving so quickly that the Egyptian Revolution that so shocked the world has already mostly fallen to a secondary headline following reports...
View ArticleWhat Libya Reveals About NATO
So, I was wrong – sort of. In an earlier post on the subject of NATO, I suggested that it was possible (though not certain) that Afghanistan could be NATO’s last big joint operation if the alliance...
View ArticleQuick Reaction to Pres. Obama's Middle East Speech
The problem with President Obama’s “Remarks on the Middle East and North Africa” is that it is already being regarded by almost everyone as a speech on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This is a...
View ArticleAn Important Win at the WTO
In case you missed it, the U.S., along with the European Union and Mexico, won an important ruling at the World Trade Organization earlier this week. The parties had lodged complaints against China,...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong With Doctrines?
A lot of really strange analysis has been coming out on the subject of Obama Administration foreign policy following the apparant toppling of the Ghaddafi regime in Libya. Broadly criticized by opinion...
View ArticleReassessing “Reset”
Vladimir Putin, the once and future Russian president, made waves recently in an article he published in Izvestia about the desirability of a “Eurasian Union”, which would deepen and build upon the...
View ArticlePunting Keystone XL
If you are a follower of foreign affairs, you are likely aware of the Obama Administration’s decision to table the Keystone XL pipeline deal until after the 2012 election. Because the project is an...
View ArticleU.S. Foreign Policy Year in Review and Look Ahead
The two biggest developments in U.S. foreign policy this year were the Obama Administration’s efforts to lower the American profile in the greater Middle East and initiate a strategic refocus on the...
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