The U.S. Congrees has passed the financial bailout bill (Washington Post – House Approves $700B Financial Rescue Package): In a dramatic reversal, the House today approved by a comfortable margin a $700 billion financial rescue package that will bring the greatest intervention of the federal government into the private marketplace since the Great Depression, […]
Happy VP Debate Day! I’m looking forward to the debate, eager to find out more about Joe Biden and Sarah Palin's views of the U.S. role in the world. I don't really get too much into the actual mechanics of the debate, what they should or should not do to win, but I did […]
Where can you watch Condoleezza Rice talk foreign policy and then play piano, James Glassman discuss public diplomacy, Tom Friedman read from his new book, and King Abdullah II of Jordan related the US-Jordan relationship? The Aspen Institute's video blog. So far I’ve watched the first three of the above mentioned Aspen-sponsored events, and I […]
Sarah Palin seems to be the topic of the week as the country prepares for the vice-presidential debate tomorrow. The debate is highly anticipated and many are saying that it may well be most watched debate in television history. I’m not going to give into the temptation to stray into partisan territory here, and […]
If you were wondering about the global reaction to the U.S. credit crisis this AP report provides some insight (AP – US ‘casino’ mentality blamed for planet's meltdown): Astounded by the U.S. government's failure to resolve the financial crisis threatening the foundations of the global free market, fingers of blame are pointing at America […]
Last February, I wrote a post entitled “The Whole World is Watching,” using the slogan from the street protests outside the 1968 Democratic Convention to try to convey how intently the world was now watching the 2008 Election campaign. In 1968, it was rather fanciful to think that the “whole world” was following closely what […]
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs released last week a public opinion poll about Americans’ views on foreign policy issues. The findings show the American public's number one foreign policy worry is the country's standing in the world. The Financial Times reported on the findings: “The… survey found that 83 per cent of respondents thought […]
It would appear that Russia has recently changed course rather dramatically and has left the U.S. looking for the proper response. In the latest example, Russia has embarked on a program to modernize the armed forces (Times Online – Russia to build missile defence shield and renew nuclear deterrence): In a sharp escalation of […]
A while back I addressed a popular reaction to Senator Barack Obama's broad popularity outside the US: why does it matter what the world thinks? Here are two perspectives from foreign Obama-supporters themselves. British columnist Jonathan Freeland sent Americans an ominous warning in an opinion piece published by the UK's Guardian newspaper, titled: “The world's verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the man it […]
I’m staying with the debate topic today, and according to the latest report I could find, the debate is still on (Washington Post – McCain Says Yes to Debate in Miss.): Sen. John McCain announced in a statement that he is resuming his campaign and will travel to Oxford, Miss., this afternoon to face Sen. […]
Since tonight's presidential debate–if it happens at all–will likely stray from its agenda of foreign policy issues, let's see what the vice presidential candidates have been up to in the foreign policy department this week. Reuters reports that Sara Palin visited with a variety of foreign leaders this week. Only brief glimpses of Palin, running […]
As you may have heard, there may or may not be a presidential debate tomorrow. Apparently one candidate wants to postpone the debate and the other wants to proceed as planned. Do you like how vaguely non-partisan I’m being? I only mention this because the debate was to be focused on foreign policy, which would […]
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