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Category Archives: Foreign Affairs
Democracy deficit
WSJ op-ed a few days ago, Democracy and the Euro Like every other country in the EU, Greece is still a democracy. Greek voters reserve the right to say no to Brussels, or even to elect those willing to abrogate … Continue reading
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European capitalism has things to recommend it, if…
File this alongside recent posts on austerity, the Euro, job creation, and the end of the blue model of governance. h/t Jonah Goldberg in Obama, Romney, and the ‘Social Market’ European capitalism has things to recommend it, particularly if you … Continue reading
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Velvet divorce
Good pieces in the Financial Times and National Review Online on the terrible range of options facing the Euro. Splitting the currency into two (or more) would involve a dangerous an awful transition, but is the best of a sorry … Continue reading
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WWII as a civil war?
Mark Steyn, in a post entitled It Takes Two to Tango, skewers the attempt to redefine WWII as a European civil war. Charles, re the European Union rechristening World War Two as the “European Civil War”, it’s not just (as … Continue reading
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Book review: Taming Globalization
Kevin D. Williamson has said of globalization that “it is irreversible, and the desire to reverse it is inhumane because (it) is making the world better. But there are tradeoffs.” He wrote that in the context of the economics and … Continue reading
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China
Interesting book review, succinct bit of history, in today’s WSJ: At the turn of the last century, with the European “Scramble for Africa,” as it was known, only recently completed, three assertive new major powers were fast emerging: Germany, Japan … Continue reading
Often hated, rarely loved, still indispensible
What’s the old line about how the secret to happiness is lowering your expectations? The same might be true when it comes to defining “success” in foriegn policy – especially in the Middle East. Two great writers on the same … Continue reading
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Interesting analogy: China as our Antebellum South
On several occasions I’ve quoted other authors when they’ve penned great one-liners to describe the situation in China: a crime wave with a flag; a billion souls in a sex imbalanced society; a crime syndicate in a stage of “bumptious … Continue reading
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…Catchy monkey, Part II
In honor of Meryl Streep’s performance in the soon-to-be-released The Iron Lady, about which I’ve read Streep (typically) absolutely nails her character while the movie (typically) slights right-of-center policy success. Here is the Iron Lady – prophetic in 1996! – … Continue reading
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Softly softly, catchy monkey
The democracy deficit in Europe is hitting the fan. If you have a currency, you must also have a government, and the peoples of Europe are not yet ready to unite (submit) to the Franco-Prussian axis. The club med countries … Continue reading
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