A version of this essay first appeared at The Hamiltonian Republican. This is Part II of a two-part series. III- A NEW NIXON DOCTRINE As mentioned at the beginning of this essay, the world post-2014 has undergone tectonic shifts in ...
I- NIXON’S WORLD AND OURS Most readers will be familiar with the not-often-observed legal responsibility of the President of the United States to provide Congress with an annual report on his administration’s foreign policy initiatives, called the “National Security Strategy.” ...
A time-honored tradition in the foreign policy commentariat is the habit of anyone who studies foreign policy for a living–from undergraduates at USC to PhD’s in International Relations and former Undersecretaries of State for Communications Policy– to put on their ...
Correspondents Luke Phillips and Alec Hively talk with Craig R. Smith, formerly a speech writer under Gerald Ford, a consultant writer for George H.W. Bush and the Republican caucus of the U.S. Senate, and now a distinguished Republican thinker and ...
One morning in 2010, foreign governments and American officials around the world were faced with the possibility of a multipronged scandal. Each of the 251,287 US diplomatic cables leaked by Bradley Manning to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange potentially held an ...
In this extended episode of Geopolitik, Senior Correspondents Luke Phillips and Jack Crash Anderson browse the history of geopolitical thought, starting at the roots from Mahan and Mackinder and continuing up into our century, with Petersen and Grygiel. Pairs well with ...
In 1972, President Nixon – thanks to the wily diplomacy of his national security advisor, Henry Kissinger – cemented one of his more favorable legacies: opening Communist China to the West. (Despite his infamous reputation in the West, he’s still ...