Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Foreign Affairs
09/10/2021
Twenty years on—is the era of American interventionism over?
The Economist's James Bennet traces Joe Biden’s shifting views on foreign wars. We look back to the origins of humanitarian interventionism in Bosnia. And, Anne-Marie Slaughter, former aide to Barack Obama and author of “Renewal”, tells us how American power might work in the future.
09/12/2021
Iran and UN watchdog reach deal on nuclear monitoring
The last-minute agreement prevents another crisis on the road to restoring the 2015 nuclear deal, as Iran was on the cusp of being censured for violating its agreement with the IAEA, per the New York Times.
09/08/2021
The Future Of Mexico’s Energy Transition
Mexico’s last President, Enrique Peña Nieto, put the country through a series of energy reforms that effectively opened up the Mexican energy market to private and foreign investment for the first time in 75 years. But the current Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, wants to restore some of the power the state had before those reforms.
09/06/2021
How to Deradicalize Your Town
While hundreds of men in surrounding towns were leaving Belgium to fight for ISIS in Syria, this town didn’t lose one young person. Here’s why.
09/06/2021
Americans Stretch Across Political Divides to Welcome Afghan Refugees
The hundreds of parishioners at Desert Springs Bible Church, a sprawling megachurch in the northern suburbs of Phoenix, are divided over mask mandates, the presidential election and what to do about migrants on the border. But they are unified on one issue: the need for the United States to take in thousands of Afghan evacuees, and they are passing the plate to make it happen.
09/02/2021
Opinion: The age of American privilege is over
Successful statecraft aligns interests with circumstance. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a generation of statesmen grasping this essential truth presided over a radical reorientation of basic U.S policy. The result was a half-century of American global primacy.
09/02/2021
An Honest Afghanistan Conversation with Ian Bremmer
Preet discusses Afghanistan with Ian Bremmer, founder and president of the Eurasia Group, a leading global political risk consultancy.
08/30/2021
98 Countries Pledge to Accept Afghans After U.S. Military Departs
The United States and 97 other countries said on Sunday that they would continue to take in people fleeing Afghanistan after the American military departs this week and had secured an agreement with the Taliban to allow safe passage for those who are leaving.
08/27/2021
The Foreign Policy Conversation Washington Doesn’t Want to Have
What America needs to learn from its Afghanistan debacle.
08/30/2021
Afghanistan: 3 Unlearned Lessons
Why does America keep making the same mistakes over and over?
08/17/2021
The Abraham Accords One Year Later: Can They Change the Middle East?
August 13 marked the first anniversary of the breakthrough normalization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates—a deal followed shortly by accords with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco.
08/22/2021