Terrorism in the Obama Age
By Jesse Singal - Jan 26th, 2009 at 11:22 amThe Washington Post ran an interesting article yesterday about Al Qaeda’s attempts to incite jihad in a post-Bush world. The group is having some trouble:…
Posts Tagged ‘foreign policy’
The Poverty of Realism
By Dylan Matthews - Jan 5th, 2009 at 1:38 pmI’m considerably less heartened by the rise of realism in mainstream punditry–represented most recently by Foreign Policy giving Steve Walt a blog–than Matt Yglesias is:…
Changing the Mindset
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 19th, 2008 at 5:00 pmThings like this, from Eli Lake at his new perch at the Washington Times, might just convince me that Hillary Clinton’s selection as Secretary of…
A Limited Defense of Gates
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 19th, 2008 at 9:30 amDylan makes a ton of good points in opposition to Gates staying on at Secretary of Defense, but I think there’s one way in which…
Israel News: Kadima Gains
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pmGood news out of Israel. Just after some seriously extreme right-wingers won choice spots on its candidate list, Likud is slipping in the polls:
Heading…
Surveying the Wreckage
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 pmWhile most transition coverage has focused–understandably–on incoming staffers and cabinet members, a large portion of the transition team is tasked instead with looking backward. The…
Holbrooke to South Asia?
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pmRichard Holbrooke was one of those Democratic foreign policy gurus whose reputation and future employment prospects were all but ruined by his vociferous support for…
Kurtzner for Envoy
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 2nd, 2008 at 1:10 pmWell, this is certainly encouraging:
President-elect Barack Obama is considering the appointment of Daniel Kurtzer, former American Ambassador to Egypt (1997-2001) and Israel (2001-2005), to…
Why Don’t Policymakers Study Policy?
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 1st, 2008 at 1:57 pmLast week, Dani Rodrik made a very good point:
If you are bright and are contemplating a potential career in American politics, you go to…
Making the UN Matter
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 25th, 2008 at 6:03 pmI’m considerably more pleased about Susan Rice’s impending appointment as United Nations ambassador than Daniel seems to be. While we’d both prefer she be National…
Endgame in Sight?
By Jesse Singal - Nov 25th, 2008 at 3:11 pmVia Spencer Ackerman, the AP reports:
President Hamid Karzai told a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation Tuesday that the international community should set a timeline…
Incentives Matter
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 24th, 2008 at 10:17 amI never cease to be amazed at the degree to which an election in which America’s left-of-center party won 365 electoral votes and at least…
What Iraq Victory?
By Daniel Strauss - Nov 21st, 2008 at 2:33 pmWhat an odd day to celebrate victory in Iraq as Dana Perino is doing. She said “that the conditions are such now that we are…
Youth Politics, Lebanon-style
By Jesse Singal - Nov 21st, 2008 at 11:45 amHezbollah is so hot right now:
RIYAQ, Lebanon — On a Bekaa Valley playing field gilded by late-afternoon sun, hundreds of young men wearing Boy…
Assigning Blame
By Jamelle Bouie - Nov 20th, 2008 at 2:18 pmOn the debate over which faction is to blame for the GOP’s current electoral woes (intensified somewhat by Kathleen Parker’s recent, kind of inflammatory, column),…
