US Foreign Policy
Total 8 Posts
Pompeo’s plan for a hierarchy of human rights could serve to undermine them all – including religious freedom.
5 min read
A commission set up by the US Secretary of State says religious freedom and property rights should be elevated above other rights. It has prompted concern from faith-based and secular critics alike.
The case for good competition.
1 min read
How can the United States change its current foreign policy and revivify competition with China?
George Floyd protests show how the US has retreated from its position as a world leader.
5 min read
To be a world leader after 1945, the US had to be seen to be anti-racist. Now it no longer cares who is watching.
The growing importance of the Indo-Pacific in the Trump administration’s foreign policy strategy.
5 min read
Driven by self-interest, Trump’s strategy seeks to counter the perceived threat of China by considering the Indo-Pacific region to be a coherent theatre where US influence can operate.
Washington’s newest thinktank is fomenting a revolution in US foreign affairs – and a retreat from interventionism.
4 min read
The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft threatens to radically realign the politics of US national security.
Mr Trump’s proposed NATOME will be in the Middle East. That’s as ludicrous as the acronym.
2 min read
It would suggest an old-world way of paternalist thinking, Rashmee Roshan Lall argues.
Trump’s threat to ruin Iraq financially has a historical parallel.
4 min read
It is outrageous to expect Iraq, which has suffered the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives and the destruction of its infrastructure and economy, to pay for its own occupation.