London Event 30th October – Beijing, the US and the South China Sea
Tuesday, 30th October, from 5:15 pm, Whitehall, City of Westminster, (exact location TBC for attendees) For over a decade theContinue Reading
Category: US Foreign Policy
London event September 14th : 9/11 fifteen years on
WHEN Wednesday, September 14, 2016 from 18:00 to 19:30 WHERE War Studies Meeting Room (K6.07 ) King’s College London – Strand,Continue Reading
South China Sea : The Saga continues
Portion of a Qing scroll on battling 19th Century piracy in the South China Sea (Wikipedia) Berivan Dilan isContinue Reading
State of Emergency in Iraq: Will the next U.S. Administration be prepared?
Asha Castleberry is a U.S. National Security Expert and U.S. Army Veteran. She is an Adjunct Fellow at the AmericanContinue Reading
What would a future US-Cuba security cooperation agreement look like?
Asha Castleberry is a U.S. National Security Expert and U.S. Army Veteran. She is an Adjunct Fellow at the AmericanContinue Reading
We need the 45th president to continue normalizing relations with Cuba
We witnessed history last week when U.S. President Barack Obama visited Cuba- the first time a sitting president had visited in 90 years.
London event 22 Feb: US Elections 2016 – What happens next?
With the US elections in November 2016 only a stone through away, we are looking back to the two recentContinue Reading
Will new US visa rules create second-class citizens?
On December 8, Congress passed the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act, which had been folded into the omnibus annual spending bill. The new VWP regulations single out certain citizens of the 38 European and Asian countries that are in visa waiver partnership with the U.S. Anyone who is a dual citizen of Syria, Iraq, Iran, or Sudan will be no longer eligible for the visa waiver when they want to visit the U.S.
Strategic Narratives without Strategy
Since 9/11 it has been hard to pin down a singular, compelling narrative that has defined Western military interventions, in part due to the lack of overarching strategy that established their objectives. An inconclusive decade of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan has left the electorates of Western countries wary of further interventions built on tenuous or conflicting strategic goals.
What the West should have learned from its long ‘war on terror’
Behind President Barack Obama’s Sunday night speech lies an awkward reality. Ever since 9/11, the West has been fighting two in some ways separate, but deeply intertwined battles against Islamist militancy.
