The Moral Logic of Humanitarian Intervention
By Dexter Filkins The New Yorker or eight years, Samantha Power served President Obama as an aide and then as U.N. Ambassador but also as an in-house conscience on matters […]
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Losing the South China Sea
By Bill Hayton Foreign Policy Vietnam’s history is full of heroic tales of resistance to China. But this month Hanoi bent the knee to Beijing, humiliated in a contest over […]
Japan, the United States, and Public Memory
By Claire Greenstein & Brandon Tensley Foreign Affairs Seventy-five years after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the countries that were involved in World War II’s […]
A U.S. Retreat From TPP Will Empower China
Editorial The New York Times The limits of President Obama’s ability to reassure the world about America’s future role in the international sphere was apparent at the summit meeting of […]
Developing Pragmatic Military Strategy
By Andrew J. Bacevich Foreign Affairs During the Cold War, the United States preferred to husband, rather than expend, its military power. The idea was not to fight but to defend, […]
The Truth About International Trade
By Douglas A. Irwin Foreign Affairs Just because a U.S. presidential candidate bashes free trade on the campaign trail does not mean that he or she cannot embrace it once […]
The State of the Cuban Internet
By Rick Paulas Pacific Standard Cuba’s lagged behind on Internet penetration from the beginning. The reasons are multi-tiered, but all can be explained by their unique government. The fall of […]
