America’s steel madness
LATE last year, Japan’s Nippon Steel announced that it had reached a deal to acquire US Steel Corporation for US$14.1 billion –...
Transatlantic ties bolstered by Biden and Scholz
THE crucial post-war economic and political relationship between Germany and the United States had been broadly stable and strong until the Trump...
Why supporting Ukraine enhances US national security
OBSERVING Republican members of Congress oppose the extension of US support to Ukraine, one cannot help but wonder what happened to one...
Biden’s objectives in the Middle East: Contain Iran and proxies, and to press Israel to change course
WHEN Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, US President Joe Biden and his top foreign policy and national security advisers were...
American exceptionalism in 2024
CAMBRIDGE – As the 2024 presidential election approaches, three broad camps are visible in America’s debate over how the United States should...
Wanted: A Kissingerian foreign policy
AGAINST the backdrop of growing global turbulence, including the threat of Russian aggression in Europe, rising military tensions between the United States...
Bye, bye, pivot to Asia?
WHEN former US president Bill Clinton hosted the Leaders’ Summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum in Seattle in 1993, the...
A US war president: America faces a historic moment
DURING his address to the nation last Thursday (Oct 19), US President Joe Biden told Americans that their country is now facing...
Globalisation of the Gaza War?
IN AN unprecedented visit to the Middle East as the war rages on between Israel and the Hamas movement that controls Gaza...
Transatlantic ties are topsy-turvy under Biden
THE English term ‘topsy-turvy’, coming from the phrase ‘upside down’, is a potentially apt description of Europe’s relations with the United States...