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June 5, 2020

South Korea
The Pandemic and Korean Foreign Policy in the Event of the Dissolution of the U.S.-ROK Alliance

Regardless of whether the global novel coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is an accelerant of existing global trends or a historical turning point, the pandemic and its consequences have constituted a m…

South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks on the occasion of the third anniversary of his inauguration at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, on May 10, 2020.

January 30, 2013

Europe and Eurasia
Should the United States Be the Military Lender of Last Resort?

In 2011, then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned that “there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. . . . to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are app…

Should the United States Be the Military Lender of Last Resort?

February 5, 2015

United States
Blankets for Ukraine

Rarely does the fecklessness of current American policy toward Russian aggression against Ukraine emerge as clearly as it does in today’s New York Times. Compare these two passages from a top stor…

November 1, 2010

United States
Peace Process?

I have it on good authority, which in Washington means that I read it in Laura Rozen’s foreign policy blog at Politico and confirmed it through various conversations with colleagues who had coffee …

Peace Process?

April 25, 2011

Middle East and North Africa
Leading From Behind?

For those seeking a better understanding of Obama administration foreign policy, a recent article by Ryan Lizza in the New Yorker provides a useful guide—though not always in the way Mr. Lizza intend…