“True glory lies in doing what deserves to be written; in writing, what deserves to be read.” –Attributed to Pliny the Elder Well, it’s finally time to say goodbye to the organization that midwifed me as a writer and ...
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 ...
For most of the American foreign policy commentariat, myself included, the greatest and most horrendous legacy of a Trump Presidency was always going to be President Trump’s clownish mismanagement of foreign affairs, which many believed would lead to a breakdown ...
In this podcast, Glimpse Senior Correspondent Luke Phillips interviews Dr. Boys on the foreign policy trends and incidents of the Clinton Administration. Dr. Boys argues that President Clinton was first and foremost a foreign policy pragmatist who responded responsibly to ...
In October, Glimpse sat down with Terry McCarthy, the president of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, to discuss the world a new American president will face in 2017. For 27 years, McCarthy traveled the world for television and print ...
Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of many books on foreign affairs including In Europe’s Shadow, Asia’s Cauldron, The Revenge of Geography, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. His writing is eclectic and lucid; an essential voice in ...
Correspondents Luke Phillips and Spencer Slagowitz sit down for a conversation about trends in foreign affairs, from trade to climate change to the populist right. The views expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect those of the Glimpse from the ...
Correspondents Luke Phillips, Katya Lopatko and Jack Crash Anderson talk geography and the balance of power in Europe and Eurasia. From Westphalia to Vienna to the EU, how do we conceive of the European landmass? It’s more than churches, tourist ...