SPRING 2016 Presidential Priority: Restore American Leadership Eliot Cohen, Eric S. Edelman and Brian Hook world affairs U.S. foreign policy today is failing every test by which a great power’s foreign policy can be judged. America is not feared by her enemies, nor trusted by her friends. Neither the American people nor the world-at-large understand any more the…
THE GOVERNANCE GAMES As happens every four years, the world is transfixed by the Summer Olympic Games. Yet even the brilliance of Usain Bolt, Simone Biles, Wayde van Niekerk, Katie Ledecky, and so many others has not obscured the dirty underside of the Olympic Movement – the self-serving governance of the International Olympic Committee. Lucy…
By George Friedman The Surprise at Brexit and the Social Crisis Behind It The pro-EU elite never imagined “leave” would win. In looking at Friday’s market decline, it is clear that the investment community was surprised at the outcome of the referendum in the U.K. What is most surprising is that they were surprised. There…
Published on: July 14, 2016 Nationalists and cosmopolitans How Samuel Huntington Predicted Our Political Moment Jason Willick In 2004, the eminent political scientist offered key insights into the nationalist-cosmopolitan divide at the heart of our society. Samuel Huntington, the professor of government at Harvard University (and member of The American Interest editorial board from…
July 24 2016, 12:01am, the Sunday Times Trump calls on the forgotten to gift him the United States of Armageddon Niall Ferguson What comedy! What a circus! Melanie Trump’s speech was ripped off from one of Michelle Obama’s. Donald Trump’s affectionate, err, grope of his daughter Ivanka was weirdly inappropriate. His air kiss of vice-presidential…
July 28, 2016 5:15 pm Why today’s politics do not mirror those of the 1930s Jacek Rostowski Countries that have suffered most economically are not electing populists, writes Jacek Rostowski ©Getty The wave of populism in the western world which has given us Brexit, and may carry Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen to power…
NIALL FERGUSON july 31 2016, 12:01am, the sunday times As the Fishtown hordes rally to Trump, Hillary’s elite risks coming apart In his prophetic 2012 book, Coming Apart, my friend Charles Murray identified the stark social division that is defining this year’s presidential election. Murray’s book was unabashedly about “the state of white America”. The…
Economist: The new political divide Globalisation and politics AS POLITICAL theatre, America’s party conventions have no parallel. Activists from right and left converge to choose their nominees and celebrate conservatism (Republicans) and progressivism (Democrats). But this year was different, and not just because Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president by…
The contemporary era seeks new approaches to environmental protection and to provision of climate related safety. The former approach, which let individual countries set the rules and thus made them solely responsible for facing up to environmental issues, is history. Countries are no longer capable to make up for the neglect of their citizens and…
The world today lacks a clear leader and a country standing at the helm of the democratic world. This is all the more troubling as we are confronted with globalisation, economic crisis and nationalistic reawakening. Mankind hasn’t faced a more difficult challenge ever since the Cold War: no one seems to know the answer to…