Global governance and free ponies
Clearly, I enjoy teasing John Bolton and John Yoo as much as the next blogger. In The New Republic, however, Nina Hachigian makes an argument about global governance that inches towards their...
View ArticleGovenance Wars II: Nina Hachigian Writes Back!!
In response to my post about her TNR article, Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Nina Hachigian has e-mailed me the following reply: It was actually through researching US policy toward big...
View ArticleYou say multilateralism, I say minilateralism... let's call the whole thing off
Wise and benevolent overlord of the entire foreign policy realmFP editor-in-chief Moises Naim has an essay in the latest issue of Foreign Policy about the need for "minilateralism" in global...
View ArticleHow do you sanction a country like Iran?
Andrew Sullivan has been blogging about Iran juuuust a wee bit the past 48 hours. Now he asks a question: The Green Movement has strongly resisted all sanctions against Iran, and even more...
View ArticlePaul Krugman, neoconservative
So I see Paul Krugman has thrown his lot in with the neoconservatives who disdain multilateral institutions and prefer bellicose unilateralism when they confront a frustrating international situation....
View ArticleWhy multilateral diplomacy can be a dead bang political loser
Over at Politico, Laura Rozen posts about the subtle efforts by the United States to moderate the United Nations Human Rights Council's behavior. These efforts have yielded... well, let's see what...
View ArticleChina is signaling a change on the yuan. Why?
There's been a spate of stories over the past few days suggesting that China is about to shift its policy on the yuan, allowing the currency to appreciate against the dollar. Keith Bradsher's latest...
View ArticlePressuring China on the renminbi: it's not just for developed countries anymore
Two nights ago I recorded a podcast with the American Chamber of Commerce in China, which you can listen to if you have no outside life whatsoever are so interested. In the podcast, I repeated my...
View ArticleSo how's the National Security Strategy going?
The Obama administration has been trying to road-test the National Security Strategy. Last month is was NSC Advisor James Jones' address to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy -- which is...
View ArticleIf FIFA governed the world......
In light of a World Cup referee stripping the United States of a winning goal despite multiple Slovenian bear hugs of American forwardsissuing a controversial call in yesterday's United States-Slovenia...
View ArticleThe costs and benefits of multilateral coercion
I think it's safe to say that the multilateral coalition implementing Operation Odyssey Dawn have had their share of public spats. This means a lot of hand-holding and negative punditry/negative...
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