Co-Authored with Professor William Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center for National Security President Joe Biden promised to restore good relations with allies after the friction and acrimony of the Trump years. It is one thing to avoid antagonizing allies, as President Donald Trump seemed to relish. But mobilizing them in a common causeContinue reading “The Lessons of Reagan’s Pipeline Crisis for Competing with China”
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Oh Lord, for Alliance!
Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America’s Alliancesby Mira Rapp-Hooper (Harvard University Press, 272 pp., $28) American power is based on a paradox. There has never been a more prosperous and powerful country in the history of the world, but the security and prosperity of the United States depend on the cooperationContinue reading “Oh Lord, for Alliance!”
Much Ado (and to Do) About Illiberalism
America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.” This Henry Kissinger quote is a perennial favorite of American realists, informing decades of American grand strategy. In recent years, from threatening to withdraw from NATO to praising Kim Jung-Un in search of a blockbuster nuclear deal, the Trump Administration ruthlessly implemented this adage, with theContinue reading “Much Ado (and to Do) About Illiberalism”
Nicholas J. Romanow 