Advertisements Professor Stephen Walt of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard recently wrote an interesting piece for Foreign Policy where he posed the question of whether the rest of the world might prefer China’s “world order” to that of the United States. As Walt poses the question, “Are theContinue Reading
Advertisements There has long been an unfortunate tendency on the left–mostly, but not exclusively, the American left–to reduce anti-imperialism to “the United States is bad.” While the U.S. is, obviously and axiomatically, the worst purveyor of imperialist crimes and its proxies and allies eagerly follow suit, there are other imperialContinue Reading
Advertisements In this episode of the ReThinking Foreign Policy Podcast, I spend a little time on the initial reaction to my upcoming book, co-authored with Marc Lamont Hill, Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. Then I look at the waning days of Mike Pompeo’s bumbling reign over the StateContinue Reading
Advertisements In this episode, I take on Mike Pompeo’s assault on the BDS movement this week and on defenders of BDS on free speech grounds who contribute to its demonization. I also address Sen. Chris Coons’ — who is being considered as Joe Biden’s Secretary of State — unacceptable stanceContinue Reading
Advertisements In my latest Rethinking Foreign Policy podcast, I talk about some specific ways progressives need to strategically influence a Biden administration toward a better foreign policy, and the need to strategize about that now, not after the election. With all of our energy understandably focused on securing a JoeContinue Reading
