Category: Foreign Policy
GOP’s Last Shot at Iran Deal
by Lou Dubose | Aug 10, 2016 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsImage Credit: European External Action Service Since he began his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to undo the multi-national agreement that has frozen Iran’s ability to build a nuclear weapon. “My number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran,” Trump said recently. In June, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah […]
In Search of Enemies
by Scott Ritter | Aug 1, 2016 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsEdel Rodríguez The stark contrast between the policy positions of the two principal nominees to succeed Barack Obama—Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton—exists across a broad spectrum of political discourse. Their opinions on the role of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization illustrate their different approaches when it comes to confronting the complex global […]
Turkey Turns Back the Clock
by Scott Ritter | Jul 27, 2016 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsPhoto Credit: Vikiçizer The modern news cycle is short, so what happened three weeks ago in Ankara and Istanbul already reads like an old story. Yet it is a story we ignore at our own risk, because the consequences of the coup in Turkey are considerable and will be with us for a long […]
Trumpismo Rattles Mexico
by Lou Dubose | Jul 19, 2016 | Election 2016, Foreign PolicyEdel Rodríguez Mexico City Donald Trump has connected with the Mexican public in a way that no other American politician ever has. Talk to a cab driver, a group of kids at a gay pride rally, a high school teacher, a woman scratching out an existence selling churros on a street corner—everyone, it seems, […]
Taking Things Back
by Linda Kinstler | Jul 14, 2016 | Election 2016, Foreign PolicyTrump in Scotland in 2012. Photo Credit: Friends of the Earth Scotland/Maverick Photo Agency “You have here, Gentlemen, said the Earl, two of the noblest objects that can entertain the eye, the finest river, and the greatest city in the world,” begins Scottish politician Andrew Fletcher’s 1703 Account of a Conversation, a fictional dialogue […]