The next American foreign policy
It is the habit of this blog to look at major foreign policy speeches, and who better to report on than Barack Obama, the increasingly likely winner of the American […]
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A landslide for Obama
A survey published in today’s Daily Telegraph reports that Barack Obama beats John McCain by a landslide, as long as the voters are European. (Read the survey results here.) I
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Europe and America: together or apart?
By Richard Laming In looking at the subject of Europe and America, I am going to talk about the background, and then look ahead with some specific questions which I
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What the American candidates say about Europe
It was an interesting exercise, looking at the statements on foreign policy by the candidates for president of the United States. (Read the analysis here.) One thing that struck me
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John McCain: Americans should welcome the rise of a strong, confident European Union
“Americans should welcome the rise of a strong, confident European Union. The future of the transatlantic relationship lies in confronting the challenges of the twenty-first century worldwide: developing a common
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America decides – the foreign policy positions of the candidates for president
By Richard Laming The American presidential election campaign that is now underway will have profound consequences for the whole world. Even though non-Americans can’t vote, they will still be affected.
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Why should the EU run a satellite system?
This blog commented previously on the funding difficulties faced by the EU’s Galileo project – one of the private sector funders pulled out and critical questions are now, properly, being
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Fair to Blair
An epitaph for the Blair era was published today by Chatham House, the respected and independent foreign policy think tank. “Blair’s foreign policy and its possible successor(s)”, written by outgoing
Iraq: staying or going
The report from the Iraq Study Group that was published last week (read it here) bookends a rather inglorious period in American foreign policy. The era of policy-making by the
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The great illusion
Chinese president Hu Jintao will visit the United States this week, to meet George W Bush. What will they find to talk about? President Bush, after all, is a self-styled
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