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Foreign policy wasn’t taking a back seat as the year ended and we started the third decade of this turbulent century. In Iraq, Iran-backed demonstrators chanting “Death to America” ransacked parts of the US embassy compound.
Over the past two years, President Donald Trump gambled that a fundamentally new approach to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threat would succeed where his three predecessors had failed.
For more than 50 years, the United States and Russia have agreed that their own security required negotiating agreements limiting their nuclear weapons deployments and capabilities. In that time, the two countries have successfully concluded seven major agreements to reduce their nuclear arsenals.
Nationalism is all the rage right now, and not just in the United States. Throughout much of the Western world, voters in areas of economic and often demographic decline are making their anger felt at the ballot box. Mainstream political parties on both the right and the left are scrambling to capture
To some on the left and the right, the Venezuela crisis has taken on the epic proportions of a final standoff between socialism and capitalism.
“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.” When it comes to Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May seems to have taken this schoolteacher’s maxim to an extreme. Having seen her deal for withdrawing from the European Union voted down by a 2-1 margin in January, May earlier this week tried again, only to lose by a whopping 149-vote margin.
President of The Chicago Council. Former US Ambassador to NATO.
