A U.S.-Pakistan ‘Rapprochement’?
Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan visited Washington on a three-day official working visit for talks with President Trump and other top U.S. officials and lawmakers as well as meetings with the...
View ArticlePresident Trump Thinks Killing 10 Million Afghans Would Help America Win the...
“I just don’t want to kill 10 million people. Does that make sense to you? I don’t want to kill 10 million people. I have plans on Afghanistan that, if I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be...
View ArticleMore than Just Investment: Why America Was Once So Popular in Africa
After two nefarious scrambles for Africa during the colonialism of the nineteenth-century and the Cold War in the twentieth century, another surge in foreign activity—another scramble—has affected...
View ArticleHow Anti-War Really is Tulsi Gabbard?
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is one of the most controversial figures running for president in the Democratic primary. While she’s loved within certain components on the left, she’s reviled by others. The...
View ArticleLend-Lease and Chinese Containment
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, the United States finds itself becoming embroiled in another confrontation with a new expansionist power, a rising China....
View ArticleIn Democracy Promotion, Democrats do not Outperform Trump
A criticism that is recurrently, and understandably, made of President Donald Trump relates to his unhidden reluctance to place the defense of human rights among the salient objectives of his...
View ArticleInevitable Withdrawal: The U.S.-Taliban Deal
It took gallons and flagons of blood, but it eventuated, a squeeze of history into a parchment of possibility: the Taliban eventually pushed the sole superpower on this expiring earth to a deal of...
View ArticleHow will America Deal with Russia’s Interest in Afghanistan?
The Russian Federation offered itself as a guarantor of a peace deal between the United States and the Afghan Taliban if it “received such requests from parties to the negotiations,” according to...
View ArticleForeign Policy Analysts Should Remain Silent on Trump
A lot of foreign policy analysts have gotten into the habit of constantly trying to analyze Trump’s various off the cuff remarks, moments of “inspiration,” and subsequent policy reversals. My question...
View ArticleAmerica Now Solves Problems with Troops, not Diplomats
Is America a bully? As a scholar, under the auspices of the Military Intervention Project, I have been studying every episode of U.S. military intervention from 1776 to 2017. Historically, the U.S....
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