Showing results for "The Way" in International Relations

The global order is always evolving, and in that sense, change could well be seen as a constant factor. But that ongoing evolution has now been given a sharper edge by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, developments in Afghanistan, the Ukraine conflict and greater friction among key powers...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author Ron Suskind comes a startling look at how America lost its way and at the nation's struggle, day by day, to reclaim the moral authority upon which its survival depends. From the White House to Downing Street, from the fault-line...

Hybrid war, grey-zone warfare, unrestricted war: Today, traditional conflict - fought with guns, bombs, and drones - has become too expensive to wage, too unpopular at home, and too difficult to manage. In an age when America threatens Europe with sanctions, and when China spends billions buying influence abroad, the world is heading for a new era of permanent low-level conflict, often unnoticed, undeclared, and unending.

When thinking about America's role in the world, Dwight Eisenhower, George H. W. Bush, and Barack Obama may not seem to have a lot in common. But they do. While divided by background, generation, and political party, they exemplify a distinct and underappreciated tradition of American leadership: The Middle Way. As the scholar and former senior foreign policy official Derek Chollet shows in this deeply researched book, these three presidents took a centrist - and effective - approach to foreign policy.

Why has America stopped winning wars? For nearly a century, up until the end of World War II in 1945, America enjoyed a Golden Age of decisive military triumphs. And then suddenly, we stopped winning wars. The decades since have been a Dark Age of failures and stalemates-in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq...

Xi Jinping verfolgt knallharte Interessen: die Formung einer Welt mit China an der Spitze. Deutschland spielt derzeit dabei nur eine nützliche Nebenrolle. Das zu erkennen, sollte uns nicht frustrieren, sondern motivieren! Wenn wir Schlüsseltechnologien, Infrastruktur und Digitalisierung vorantreiben, Entscheidungen in Politik und Wirtschaft beschleunigen und vor allem zwei Verhaltensweisen ablegen: unsere Unentschlossenheit und unser Harmoniedenken – dann können wir wieder Verhandlungspartner auf Augenhöhe werden.