by jpitney | Apr 11, 2020 | Congress, Foreign Policy, Oversight
Robbie Gramer and Jack Detsch have an article at Foreign Policy titled “Pandemic Stymies Congressional Check on Trump’s Foreign Policy.” An excerpt: Public health guidance has prevented lawmakers in particular from receiving classified briefings—normally...
by jpitney | Mar 9, 2020 | Economic Policy, Foreign Policy
Clark Packard, Scott Lincicome, Kimberly Clausing, and Mary Lovely at The Bulwark: Returning to the TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] is the most expeditious way to ensure that U.S. exporters face a level playing field with their competitors in pivotal...
by jpitney | Nov 25, 2019 | Europe, Foreign Policy, Uncategorized
Ripon Forum interview with former Senator, Ambassador, and DNI Dan Coats: I am a transatlanticist. Most of my former colleagues in Congress and government are as well, irrespective of any generational differences I mentioned above. No country, no matter how powerful,...
by jpitney | Nov 10, 2019 | Foreign Policy, Presidency, Uncategorized
James A. Baker III at The Washington Post: Thirty years ago, on Nov. 9, 1989, as crowds of East and West Germans were tearing down the wall that symbolized division and totalitarianism, I was fortunate to watch firsthand as President George H.W. Bush eschewed high...
by jpitney | Nov 9, 2019 | Congress, Deliberation, Foreign Policy, Uncategorized
At Foreign Policy, James Goldgeier and Elizabeth N. Saunders explain that legislators have become less and less interested and conversant in the details of foreign policy and national security. Why this decrease? The rise of partisanship is one important reason....
