foreign policy

10

Nov

Africa, America, Atlantic Council, China, COVID-19, EU, foreign policy, Joe Biden, Latin America, Middle East, Multilateralism, NATO, presidency, Trumpism, USA

What does Joe Biden’s presidency mean for America’s role in the world?

BY: Atlantic Council PEJOURNAL - We finally have a winner. After several days of counting votes, former Vice President Joe Biden has defeated President Donald J. Trump in the US presidential election, after the Associated Press called Pennsylvania for the former vice president on November 7.  While Biden may have to contend with a divided Congress to achieve his many domestic priorities, he will have much more power to shape US foreign policy going forward. “Under a Biden presidency, the United States will shift from a ‘with or without us’ approach to a policy that fundamentally believes the United States can achieve more when we work together with partner nations,” Jason Marczak, director of…

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04

Aug

Europe, foreign policy, Middle East, Russia, USA

Political Economy Journal: Russia’s Foreign Policy in the Middle East

BY: Daniel Ranjbar PEJOURNAL - In 1787, with several European ambassadors, the Russian Empress Catherine II visited Crimea. The purpose of the trip was to reassure and deceive the ambassadors before a new war against the Sublime Porte with regard to Russia’s true power ability. To this end, Crimean Governor Grigory Potemkin set up mobile villages full of soldiers dressed as farmers to show a fake picture of a fully developed countryside with flourishing agricultural activity. Since then, ‘Potemkin settlements’  have become synonymous with diplomatic deceit and have had a profound influence on the history of Russian foreign policy.  As…

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22

Jul

Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, foreign policy, George W. Bush, HENRY KISSINGER, Jimmy Carter, Kissinger, Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Stanley Hoffmann, U.S. foreign policy, Zbigniew Brzeziński

The National Interest: The Case for Kissinger

PEJOURNAL - HENRY KISSINGER, who recently turned ninety-seven, is America’s most celebrated living statesman. None of his successors has come close to matching the extraordinary blend of acclaim and notoriety, admiration and criticism that he attracted as national security adviser and secretary of state to Richard M. Nixon and secretary of state to Gerald Ford. The British Foreign Office referred to him at the time as “the Wizard of the Western World'” and Playboy Bunnies voted him the man they would prefer to date in 1972—no small accomplishments for an expert on the Congress of Vienna who spent much of…

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20

Jul

analysis of signals, Artificial Intelligence, decision-making, foreign policy, public expectations, scenario-making

Artificial Intelligence in Foreign Policy

PEJOURNAL - The world of politics is like a game of chess, based on evaluating scenarios and predicting the best reaction or the best move of the pieces; but the chess of the political world is more complex as many actors with explicit and implicit preferences participate in it and their declarative and practical approaches are not necessarily the same; Internal changes in countries’ policies, including shifts in power and changes in the structure of rent resources, affect the strategies, tactics, and behavior of actors, and ultimately, it is difficult to understand the distinction between signal (signaling a particular motivation…

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14

Jul

Corona virus, COVID19, Crisis, foreign policy, Geoeconomics, Liberal economies, Liberalism, PANDEMIC

Foreign Policy: The Pandemic Could Be the Crisis Liberalism Needed

BY: Matt Warner* , Tom G. Palmer* PEJOURNAL - The world may be reaching a dangerous inflection point for liberalism. According to the latest reports from Freedom House, over the last 15 years the share of unfree countries in the world has risen while the share of free countries has dropped. Today, government deficits are spiking in response to the public’s demand for intervention to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and some warn that authoritarian leaders are seizing the opportunity to expand their control. Still, this may be a time when liberalism starts to gain ground, not…

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14

Jul

Afghanistan, Constitutional Reforms, Crimea, foreign policy, President Vladimir Putin, Russia, SCFR, Syria, Tartus, Ukraine crisis, Yemen

SCFR: Russia’s Constitutional Reforms and its impact on Moscow’s Foreign Policy

PEJOURNAL - Russia’s constitutional reform referendum will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the country’s future, but if we look at this referendum in its context of international reform, we will face two important principles that seem to play a significant role in explaining Russia’s foreign policy approach in the future. First, the amendment to Article 79 of the Russian Constitution emphasizes that if an international law is enacted that is contrary to the Russian Constitution, foreigners will not be allowed to rule against Russia, and the criterion will be the Russian Constitution. After the lapse of more than two…

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26

Jun

COVID-19, foreign policy, Joe Biden, President Trump, RAND, the United States

RAND: Why the United States Will Need a New Foreign Policy in 2020

BY: Raphael S. Cohen PEJOURNAL - Voting may still be months away, but already the 2020 election cycle is in full swing, and the traditional presidential tropes—pledging a new and better future—are out in force. And yet, for all the campaign promises to the contrary, a disconcerting truth remains. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the country faced a growing strategic predicament: The United States' challenges are mounting, and its international commitments increasingly outstrip its means to fulfill them. Since the pandemic, these problems have only multiplied. Consequently, no matter who wins in 2020, big changes in America's foreign policy could be…

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21

Jun

American Racism, Black Lives Matter, foreign policy, george floyd

Foreign Policy: The Legacy of American Racism at Home and Abroad

Domestic racism has long impacted U.S. foreign policy. It’s time to open up about it. It used to be that Americans had to wait decades to learn how U.S. national security professionals viewed racism within the United States. Only declassified reports and personal memoirs revealed how senior officials and diplomats condemned segregation, inequality, and racial injustice in their own country. Many of them saw the evils of racism as an affront to U.S. values and an impediment to the country’s foreign-policy goals, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. They delivered their points directly or indirectly—in situation rooms, policy debates, and briefings. These…

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14

Jun

China, foreign policy, Iran, Terrorism, Turkey, US, UWI

UWI: The United Sects of America; How cultists help to form of the US foreign policy

PEJOURNAL - The United World International has specifically examined the history of US cooperation with the three sects of Feto (Fethullah Gulen's terrorist movement), Falun Gong and the hypocritical terrorist group. If Washington continues to work with sects, its fate will be similar to that of a dog that was trained to attack others, but that dog eventually bites its owner's foot, according to the article. What follows is the full text of this article. The United States of America was the first country in the world to be built by sects. Representatives of the European persecution of Protestants settled…

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09

Jun

COVID19, foreign policy, Geoeconomics, Gepolitics, PANDEMIC

Foreign Policy: How the World Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic

The pandemic will change the world forever. Foreign Policy Magazine asked 12 leading global thinkers for their predictions. PEJOURNAL - Like the fall of the Berlin Wall or the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the coronavirus pandemic is a world-shattering event whose far-ranging consequences we can only begin to imagine today. This much is certain: Just as this disease has shattered lives, disrupted markets and exposed the competence (or lack thereof) of governments, it will lead to permanent shifts in political and economic power in ways that will become apparent only later. To help us make sense of the ground shifting…

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