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Would Biden or Trump end America's forever wars?
By Stephen Wertheim, Deputy Director of Research and Policy
New Statesman, 9/23/20
Americans like to imagine that their political disputes stop at the proverbial water’s edge. The opposite has been nearer to the truth ever since the nation’s founders split over whether to support France in its revolutionary wars in the 1790s.
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There isn’t a military solution to North Korea (and the American public agrees)
By Jessica Lee, Research Fellow
The National Interest, 9/23/20
At the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, South Korea's president urged world leaders to bring the seventy-year old Korean War to a formal end.
Despite America’s pivotal role in the conflict—and its lasting impact on American democracy—the Korean War is a forgotten chapter in American history. Five million soldiers and civilians died from the war, which began in 1950 and never officially ended. The fifty-five boxes of remains of missing Korean War service members that North Koreans returned to the United States in 2018 is a stark reminder of the absence of closure from that original forever war.
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The rivalry that forged the Cold War
By Rajan Menon, Non-Resident Fellow
The New York Times, 9/23/20
Tim Weiner’s “The Folly and the Glory” provides a sweeping, lively survey of the worldwide competition between the Soviet Union (and later, Russia) and the United States since the end of World War II. Weiner has, in abundance, the knowledge and experience required to write such a book. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 while at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Later, he worked for The New York Times from various parts of the world and then became its national security correspondent. His 2007 history of the C.I.A., “Legacy of Ashes,” won a National Book Award. That was but one of his many acclaimed books.
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Is the Blob really blameless?
By Stephen Walt, Non-Resident Fellow
Foreign Policy, 9/22/20
Francis Gavin recently published a lengthy review of my 2018 book, The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy. I am flattered that he judged the book to be of sufficient importance and potential influence to warrant such sustained attention, even though his assessment is harshly negative. Gavin’s essay raises several important issues, and it would be a telling indictment if his criticisms were well founded. Fortunately, his main charges miss their mark while nicely illustrating the complacent mindset that I criticized in the book. Explaining why his objections are unconvincing will hopefully move the debate on U.S. grand strategy forward.
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Greening U.S.-China relations: A symposium
Edited by Stephen Wertheim, Deputy Director of Research & Policy
Contributors: Barbara Finamore, Kelly Sims Gallagher, Joanna Lewis, Nicholas Mulder, Jonas Nahm, Heidi Peltier & Deborah Seligsohn
Quincy Institute, 9/21/20
Climate change scarcely figures in the debate in Washington about how to deal with China. Yet climate change is perhaps America’s foremost national security challenge today, and the United States and China hold the key. The two countries are the world’s two top emitters of greenhouse gases, not to mention the two most powerful countries overall. Whether the planet remains habitable is in large part up to them. Will the United States and China decarbonize their own economies and work to green the global economy? Will they give priority instead to zero-sum political, economic, and military conflict?
In recognition of UN Climate Week, Quincy Institute has asked a slate of distinguished analysts to assess how the United States should change its relationship with China in order to prevent and mitigate climate chaos. They weigh in below with strategies and policies — and warn that continuing down the path of cold war may doom the planet.
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