Europe’s Democracy Problem
My latest for The Atlantic: “For Europe, Some Fear a Conflict Between Union and Democracy”
Moving Goalposts of American Conservatism
Rush Limbaugh, who three years ago said Mitt Romney embodied all three legs of the conservative stool today declared that Romney is not a conservative. He was right both times.
Romney’s Realist Foreign Policy
My latest for The Atlantic, “Romney’s Realist Foreign Policy Is a Lot Like Obama’s,” has been posted.
When Can a President Order an American Killed?
My latest for The Atlantic, “The Thorniest Question: When Can a President Order an American Killed?” has been posted.
NATO Support Endures
NATO is still seen as essential by 62 percent of both EU and U.S. respondents, demonstrating that the transatlantic military bond is still, despite a rough decade, firmly entrenched in American and European views of the world.
Libya Exposes Transatlantic Contradictions
My first piece for CNN has been posted at Fareed Zakaria’s Global Public Square.
Libya Not Vindication for NATO, It’s a Wake-up Call
My latest for The National Interest is posted under the somewhat misleading headline “NATO Fails in Libya.”
Libya After Gaddafi: Lessons From Iraq
The Atlantic has published an essay I wrote yesterday morning titled “Libya After Qaddafi: Lessons from Iraq 2003.”
Is the U.S.-European Relationship Really in Decline?
My latest piece for The Atlantic, “Is the U.S.-European Relationship Really in Decline?” is posted.
How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology
Why the United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades.
NATO’s Death Greatly Exaggerated
A version of a piece I wrote Wednesday, titled “NATO’s Death Greatly Exaggerated,” has finally been published at Foreign Policy under the title “Back in the Saddle: How Libya Helped NATO Get Its Groove Back.”
War Isn’t for Everyone
My first piece for The American Conservative, which they’ve titled “War Isn’t for Everyone–The military needs civilian control, not citizen soldiers,” is in the May issue.
NATO in an Age of Austerity
World Politics Review has published a special issue on “NATO’s Identity Crisis” ahead of next month’s Lisbon summit and the unveiling of a new Strategic Concept. I contributed the lead essay, “NATO in an Age of Austerity.”
Europe ‘Crisis’ Overblown
My latest for The National Interest, arguing that the talk of crisis in Europe is overblown, is up. Naturally, they’ve titled it “Crisis in the EU.”
NATO’s Cyber Threat
NATO should resist preemptively declaring cyber attacks “an attack on all” members under Article 5.
