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  • Dr. Deterrence Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept the Bomb

    For the American public, media, and a certain someone in the West Wing, the knowledge that North Korea will soon have ICBMs capable of targeting American cities is cause for panic. Each test launch and every tremor coming from North Korea leads to a flurry of angrily worded tweets and posturing from President Trump, which…

  • The Case for Foreign Policy Regulations

    Anyone specializing in any field of policy will tell you that theirs is the most important. In the case of foreign policy, that argument might hold some weight. Since the end of the Second World War, an activist foreign policy on the part of the United States has coincided with the elimination of great-power conflict,…

  • Clinton’s Foreign Policy: Savvy, or Sullied?

    BY JOE LENOFF Over his five years in office, President Obama’s foreign policy has gained a notorious reputation as Woodrow Wilson-esque idealism—a sort of intentional naivety used to shape the world as it should be, rather than grapple with what it is. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton is lauded as a foreign policy pragmatist,…