December 30, 2011
Politics and GovernmentThe U.S. and Iowa state flags fly at a rally for Mitt Romney in West Des Moines on December 30, 2011. (Brian Snyder/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. As the Roy Schneider character says at the start…
May 14, 2010
TradePhoto courtesy of the MIT Visualizing Cultures project. Here’s the thing about trade policy: the United States can’t be a leader in Asia without one. That was true in the 19th century, as fast-sai…
January 18, 2012
Defense and SecurityI had the pleasure to preside at a CFR meeting today on “What to Worry about in 2012.” The panelists were David Gordon, head of research and director of global macro analysis at the Eurasia Group, Ma…
May 23, 2014
Defense and SecurityHarold Hongju Koh, “Ending the Forever War: One Year After President Obama’s NDU Speech,” JustSecurity.org, May 23, 2014. The President’s historic move in that speech was to call for the eventual re…
October 20, 2015
This is the third blog post in this series. The previous two were published in February and July, and highlight earlier academic findings. Elizabeth N. Saunders, “War and the Inner Circle: Democrat…
April 1, 2016
Elections and VotingDonald Trump made foreign policy news a hot topic on the campaign trail this week. In interviews with the Washington Post and the New York Times and in various campaign appearances he suggested that …
May 16, 2017
AmericasMany of Latin America’s largest economies are stuck in the so-called “middle-income trap,” with slowing productivity growth making it unlikely that they will catch up to the top global economies in t…
May 15, 2018
CybersecurityThis week: confusion about ZTE, eliminating the White House cyber coordinator, Lenovo in hot water with Chinese nationalists, and cellphone location tracking.
June 21, 2018
United StatesRecent U.S. war games have shown that decision makers are surprisingly reluctant to use cyber weapons during a crisis scenario that escalates into armed conflict. Why?
June 22, 2018
CybersecurityThis week: concerns about EU copyright reform, the taboo of using cyber weapons, Joshua Schulte gets indicted.
