Section: The Globalist (USA)
Lessons for the World from Trump’s Win
By Ashutosh SheshabalayaAn emerging market perspective on a presumed American cataclysm.Donald Trump’s “surprise” victory in the U.S. elections should be a wake-up call for pundits and pollsters everywhere. It marks a turning point, less from the post-Second World War order than from two-and-a-half centuries of Enlightenment thinking, which...
EU Defense Cooperation: Threat or Benefit for NATO?
By Markus HeinrichBritain has long opposed an EU defense identity fearing it would undermine NATO. Post Brexit, the remaining 27 members can forge ahead.Britain has always been a somewhat half-hearted member of the EU. The country has been reluctant to hand over competences to Brussels and principally opposed to “ever closer union” — even as it...
Beyond Dilma: The New Era of Anti-Corruption Enforcement
By Frank VoglThe Brazilian President’s removal from office will send shockwaves across Latin America, and possibly beyond.Over the past 25 years, vast bodies of national laws and international conventions to root out corruption have been agreed to. That’s progress. However, enforcement actions have remained woefully inadequate on many...
Destiny Lost? Trump and a US Off Its Moorings
By Michael J. BrennerDoes criticizing and downplaying other nations help Americans feel better about themselves?Americans are struggling to draw into focus their exalted image of themselves and reality. They are not doing a very good job of it. The gap is wide and growing — and it is this very gap that Donald Trump seeks to exploit for his...
Samantha Power and Henry Kissinger Polar Opposites?
By Christoph HeusgenFrom the Balkans and Iraq to Libya: How important are morals in foreign policy making? In the firmament of modern U.S. foreign policy, it is hard to imagine two pivotal policymakers that would seem to be more polar opposites than Samantha Power and Henry A. Kissinger. One is the current U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations...
A New Fight Over Syria War Strategy
By Gareth PorterPresident Obama has signaled a willingness to cooperate with Russia on Syria, but hawks are fighting the shift.The long internal political struggle within the Obama administration over policy toward Syria has intensified following a proposal by President Barack Obama to cooperate with Russia in an air campaign against Al...
Russia’s Addiction Problem
By The GlobalistSuppressing the opioid crisis and poor treatment regimes combine for a failed strategy.1. Although it does not have the highest rate of opioid use in the world, the Russian Federation has a significant problem with abuse of synthesized opioids, such as heroin. 2. Russia ranks about even with Iran – which also has major addiction...
Is Hillary Clinton a Warmonger?
By Michael J. BrennerA closer review of Secretary Clinton’s foreign policy experience and tendencies. Former Secretary of State (and Senator and First Lady) Hillary Clinton has based her campaign for president of the United States States heavily on her many years of foreign policy experience. Especially outside the United States, that is...
Post-Brexit: EU Still a Superpower
By Steven HillYes, the EU is juggling a number of daunting situations. But that’s what superpowers do.If you type the words “European Union” and “crisis” into the Google search engine, you instantly receive 115 million hits. When I did that back in 2009, before the eurozone crisis, “only” 58 million hits popped up. Is the EU really in that...
Why the West Misunderstands Russia’s Challenge
By Andreas UmlandLooking past the bluster and hyperbole of Russia’s political leaders and business elites.At a time when even Angela Merkel, long the enforcer of the Western sanctions policy on Putin’s Russia after the Crimea invasion, is going soft on Russia, it is high time to look at Western strategy toward that country. What...
