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Save the planet if not Gaza: fire Tony Blair as Middle East envoy.
Archive for the ‘Diplomacy’ Category
December 4th, 2008
How the UN can deal with the Somali pirates.
November 8th, 2008
Category: Diplomacy, The Obama Presidency
Obama can only partly restore America’s position in the world.
November 7th, 2008
Jon’s post (not, I think, representing his real views) implies that being respected, or even loved, by foreigners is only useful insofar as we can manipulate them into doing something for us. This recalls Calogero’s dad’s distinction between fear and respect (A Bronx Tale, 1993) and misses the important point that if a [...]
November 6th, 2008
The LA Times’ Rosa Brooks celebrates the Obama victory today, arguing that the US will now rise in international public opinion and popularity. She is hardly alone in this, as several commentators are arguing now that an Obama presidency will enhance America’s “soft power.” The problem is that, perhaps because she only has [...]
September 16th, 2008
Category: Diplomacy, John McCain
McCain’s website has no section on foreign policy.
September 2nd, 2008
Category: Diplomacy, The wayward press
Khalilzad is naughty, and somebody leaks it.
August 10th, 2008
One of the really great things about being American is knowing your country is exporting the best of its political and artistic culture to places that really need it. In the sixties and seventies, for example, Europeans watching US TV shows started asking pointed questions about stuff like habeas corpus and refusing to answer [...]
July 15th, 2008
The ICC prosecutor charges the Sudanese president with genocide.
