Posted on September 8, 2019. Tags: China, Donald Trump, Far-right, identity, Nationalism, Politics, Populism, President Trump, United States, Xi Jinping
I moved to London when I was 16, having spent my entire childhood living in Beijing. My parents met there studying Chinese and my father later got a job with the Spanish embassy. When I arrived in the UK in 2014 British national culture seemed like a breath of fresh air compared to the parochial […]
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Posted in Asia, China, Europe, World
Posted on January 25, 2019. Tags: disarmament, INF Treaty, nuclear deal, Nuclear Weapons, President Trump, Putin, Russia, Soviet Union, Trump administration, United States
There is every reason to believe that Russia will not come back into compliance with the INF Treaty, thus setting the stage for a US withdrawal from the landmark agreement. The demise of the INF Treaty would jeopardize ‘New START’, one of the last remaining pillars of the arms control regime. Although the agreement expires […]
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Posted in World
Posted on January 6, 2017. Tags: CIA, President Trump, Russia, Trump
Donald Trump is correct: The American intelligence community misled us about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction. So that means it’s also mistaken about Russian cyberattacks on the United States. Right? Wrong. On New Year’s Eve, Trump called the Central Intelligence Agency’s claims about WMD a “disaster”—his signature slur—and implied that the agency was fibbing […]
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Posted in Russia, US, World
Posted on March 24, 2018. Tags: Ankara, Erdogan, Free Syrian Army, Kurdish, kurdistan, Kurds, NATO, President Trump, Syria, Trump, Turkey
By U.S. Department of State from United States [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Authors: Dr Simon A. Waldman is a Mercator-IPC fellow at the Istanbul Policy Center and a visiting research fellow at King’s College London. Engin Onuk is an intern at the İstanbul Policy Center and a masters student in the International Relations Department in İstanbul […]
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Posted in Middle East, Syria, Turkey, World
Posted on April 9, 2017. Tags: Democracy, European Union, Globalization, international system, liberal democratic order, Mexico, Middle East, NATO, Politics, President Trump, Syria, U.S., World
Most children learn early on the art of connecting the dots. Draw a line from one dot to another in a logical pattern and an image begins to emerge. The art of foreign policy has similar characteristics. Policy makers try to connect the dots, attempting to imagine the ways their decision will effect the larger […]
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Posted in US, World