Foreign Policy

Brief #97—Foreign Policy
By Brandon Mooney
Well, it’s official: the U.S. has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Agreement.

Brief #98—Foreign Policy
By Will Solomon
On April 12, 2002, Hugo Chávez, then President of Venezuela, was briefly removed from power in a military coup.

Brief #96—Foreign Policy
By Will Solomon
It can be difficult to find coherence in Trump’s agenda, foreign policy included.

Brief #95—Foreign Policy
By Colin Rugg
In the wake of Jeffrey Goldberg’s September 3rd Atlantic report lambasting Trump for his disparaging comments about the United States Military, the president has come under fire from Military commanders and politicians on both sides of the aisle.

Brief #94—Foreign Policy
By Brandon Mooney
Although some of us may have missed it with all of the covid-19 news, in early August, U.S. intelligence reported to Congress that Russia, China, and Iran were attempting to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

Brief #93—Foreign Policy
By Will Solomon

Brief #92—Foreign Policy
By Will Solomon
While not as omnipresent as it often has been, the issue of conflict with Iran should loom large in the context of the 2020 election. Indeed, it’s important to consider just how much more serious this issue has grown in the last four years. A central premise of Trump’s 2016 campaign was exiting the 2015 JCPOA— perhaps the single biggest foreign policy achievement of the Obama administration.

Brief #91—Foreign Policy
By Will Solomon
US intervention in Latin American politics extends back almost to the founding of this country, predating even the Monroe Doctrine.

Brief #90—Foreign Policy
By Colin Rugg
On August 31, flight LY971 landed in the United Arab Emirates after a three-hour journey from Israel

Brief #89—Foreign Policy
By Brandon Mooney
Unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand for the past month, you have no doubt heard about the controversy surrounding whether Trump had been briefed on intelligence claiming that Russia offered bounties to the Taliban in Afghanistan for the targeting and killing of U.S. servicemen.

Brief #88—Foreign Policy
By Gwayne Gautreaux
Touted by supporters as the new NAFTA 2.0, one of the major tenets underlying the Trump Administration’s foreign policy platform was recently put into practice. 

Brief #87—Foreign Policy
By Brandon Mooney
Earlier this month, the surging video communications company Zoom joined the growing ranks of enterprises that have made concessions to or followed Chinese directives on content, censorship, and other aspects of company policy.