The American Era Is Dead, and Covid-19 Proves It
7 min read By Gustavo Palomares Lerma, Professor of US foreign policy at the Escuela Diplomática de España
How are US and Chinese leaders handling Covid-19? Q&A on the planet’s two most powerful countries
4 min read Peter Trubowitz, Professor of International Relations and Director of the London School of Economic’s US Centre, describes the handling and stakes involved in America and China's handling of Covid-19
Coronavirus – We Must Transform the World After COVID-19 Passes (Essay)
10 min read Why must the pre-Coronavirus world be transformed in its aftermath? And what would an ideal new world look like? Ian Goldin, Professor at the University of Oxford and Robert Muggah, Associate Lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), take a step back and look at the big picture
Are the US and Chinese in the middle of an Arms race?
5 minute read "For the Chinese, their own region is crucial and since the Russian Pacific Fleet is little more than a shadow of its former Soviet self, it is focusing on the United States, especially the US navy with its aircraft carrier battle groups," writes Paul Rogers, Bradford University (Feb. 26th, 2020)
Jeremy Wildeman: Canada’s anti-diplomacy puts Canadians at risk in the Middle East
"Canada is caught in a mess of its own diplomatic making following the recent escalation in conflict between the United States and Iran," writes Jeremy Wildeman, University of Bath (Jan. 15th, 2020)
UPDATED: After Iran retaliates, US-Iran tensions ease, and Trump remains isolated
This article was written by the same distinguished scholar whose piece we initially featured (found below) on the topic of Iran. However, this article has been written after the Iranian response, and both pieces are worth reading (Jan. 8th, 2019)
While the US and Iran risk a major war, Trump continues his ignorant recklessness
"President Donald Trump’s policy toward Iran is in deep crisis. The president’s approach has the support neither of America’s allies nor of its strategic rivals, China and Russia. And his policy – made even more confrontational by the shooting of a high-ranking Iranian official – has boxed him into a situation where, short of dramatic reversal, Washington and Tehran are edging close to war," writes Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Jan. 8th, 2020)
VIDEO: I was involved in selling the fake reasons for the Iraq War. I’m seeing the same thing with Iran (6 minutes)
"I watched as the intelligence was cooked, as principals in the George W. Bush government were sold by that intelligence or helped to warp that intelligence... I’m watching the same thing again," says Lawrence Wilkerson, retired United States Army colonel, who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff from 2002 to 2005 (Jan. 8th, 2020)
Andrew Bacevich – The last three decades of American foreign policy have been a colossal failure (Essay)
"Thirty years later, perhaps it’s time to assess just how well the United States has fulfilled the expectations President Bush articulated in 1990. Personally, I would rate the results somewhere between deeply disappointing and flat-out abysmal," writes Andrew Bacevich, Boston University, President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (Jan. 8th, 2020)