September 20, 2019

A new article in Survival critiques America’s foreign policy of global interventionism and makes the case for a grand strategy of restraint.

• It is Time to Relinquish America's Global Interventionist Foreign Policy

  By John Glaser, Christopher A. Preble, and A. Trevor Thrall 

What’s Really Undermining NATO? Europe’s Yearning for Neutrality.

The bottom line is that the concept of transatlantic solidarity, even on collective defense, is now largely confined to out-of-touch political elites on both sides of the Atlantic.

• What’s Really Undermining NATO? Europe’s Yearning for Neutrality 

  By Ted Galen Carpenter

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