Trump’s Historic Moves in Korea
Everyone has seen the historic images on TV—with the upcoming 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon and Richard Nixon’s call from the […]
Donald Trump the Statesman
When Donald Trump took office, his predecessor warned him that North Korea was going to be his biggest international headache. Within months of receiving that […]
Washington Is Still Not Getting Space Force Right
At this year’s Space Symposium in Washington, D.C., Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan opened his remarks by indicating the United States government takes seriously […]
Making Korean Lemonade
Donald Trump bought a Korean lemon in 2018. Last week, he made some lemonade. By walking out on his second summit with North Korean dictator […]
North Korea Has Probably Weaponized Space Already
Now that the rapprochement between the United States and North Korea appears to be on hold, the North Korean military threat will have to become […]
Trump Knows When to Fold ‘Em
In the course of a high-stakes negotiation, the player who walks away from the table is the one with the least to lose. Ronald Reagan […]
Trump Lost Nothing in Hanoi
When Donald J. Trump took office in January 2017, the outgoing Obama Administration national security team cautioned Trump’s transition team that North Korea was a […]
Trump Should Withdraw U.S. Forces From South Korea
The election of Donald Trump was a seminal moment in modern American history, as one of the important things it signaled was a need for […]
Renegotiating America’s Role in the World: Avoiding the British Precedent
After the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, Great Britain pursued a grand strategy of primacy, based on the concept of what Robert Gilpin has called […]
America and the Risk of Pearl Harbor 2.0
In 1940, America launched an embargo against Japan. In 1941, Japan responded with a surprise attack on America’s Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. Fast forward […]
Trump’s ‘Deplorable’ Diplomacy
Liberals see Donald Trump as the embodiment of toxic masculinity. Trump’s voters see a real man. My husband jokes that in our family, if anything […]
Space Nationalism Now!
Donald Trump has yet again followed through on one of his promises: he is reinvigorating America’s space policy. The White House has finally taken seriously […]
Trump’s Moves With N. Korea Are Nothing Like Obama’s With Iran
In the wake of the Singapore summit with North Korea, many commentators and publicists, Democrats as well as figures from the NeverTrump Right, have argued […]
What’s Really Happening With North Korea?
Most commentary on the Trump/Kim summit is evidence of partisan stampede thinking. Herewith are the insights of an old professor of international affairs, who does […]
How Twitter Diplomacy Works
President Trump this week will bust 68 years of diplomatic white paper inertia and meet the leader of a nation with which America has been […]
Thank God Trump Isn’t a Foreign Policy Expert
Over the last century, the world has witnessed the slow but steady depoliticization of America and Western Europe in favor of the rule of the […]
Trump’s Irresistible ‘Trollitics’
What a time to be alive! To witness a president of the United States dismissively tell a brutal communist dictator, “thanks for the hostages,” is […]
Trump Offers South Korea a Backbone
Donald Trump on Thursday canceled the much-ballyhooed summit with North Korea scheduled for June 12 in Singapore. The president cited Kim Jong-un’s recent mysterious meeting […]
Trump Will Get a Deal Done with North Korea
President Trump’s announcement Thursday that he is canceling the upcoming summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was seized upon by leftists with their typical […]
Making International Relations Great Again
The fumbling and waffling in the American and international media on three urgent contemporary issues: North Korea, Iran, and Palestine, reveal the dangers of the […]