Tragedies Overshadow Obama's Asia-Pacific Trip
US President Barack Obama's trip to the Asia-Pacific region this month was supposed to solidify his foreign policy "rebalance" to that region, which he began in 2011.But tragedies, such as the Sewol...
View ArticleUS Reaffirms Defense Pacts
You might recall last December when China declared the airspace over the Senkaku Islands as its own. Trouble is, Japan also claims it.When he visited Japan last week, President Barack Obama reaffirmed...
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When Perry Opened Japan
That's Commodore Matthew Perry at right. And you're correct: neither does he look like a member of the Commodores, nor was he on Friends.But he did open up Japan to US trade in the 1850s. As President...
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US Enters Search For Abducted Nigerian Girls
At right is First Lady Michelle Obama during a heartfelt Mother's Day message from the White House. In it she issued a plea for the release and return of more than 200 girls abducted from their school...
View ArticleNot Your Grandfather's Military Advisers
Last week the US announced it was sending some military advisers into Nigeria to help look for the more than 200 girls that Boko Haram kidnapped in April.Many Americans of a certain age -- 50 and up,...
View ArticleRussia Hits Back With ISS Sanctions
This week, Russia countered the sanctions levied against it by the United States and European Union over the Ukraine crisis by issuing some sanctions of its own -- against the US and the International...
View ArticleObama Reinforces Policy In Chad
When President Obama announced last week that he was sending 80 troops into Chad to help with the search for more than 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, he was right in line with his own ideas of...
View ArticleEpic Epochs Of US Foreign Policy, Part One
American foreign policy has come in three distinct phases -- the Early Federal period, when the US contended with domestic issues and sought neutrality; an abortive Imperial phase; and the post-WWII...
View ArticleEpic Epochs Of US Foreign Policy, Part Two
In the second distinct phase of US foreign policy, the United States embarked on an ill-advised turn at imperialism. Of course "imperialism" was a bad word in the United States, so people called our...
View ArticleEpic Epochs Of US Foreign Policy: Part Three
In the third distinct phase of American foreign policy, the US became a reluctant global power. After WWI, the US declined the job; after WWII, it could not ignore it.As a global power, the US has...
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