Weekly Blog on Contemporary Politics and Foreign Policy
Obama’s Strategic Retreat in Afghanistan
America’s Self-Defeating Cycle in Afghanistan
Is America Really an Empire?
America the Overcommitted
New York Times, 14 October 2011
Our Next Step in the Middle East
How to Leave a Strong Afghanistan
Obama’s Anti-Nuclear Vision After the Cold War
Aargauer Zeitung (Zurich, Switzerland) 10 April 2010
English Language Version: globalbrief.ca 12 April 2010
Where are the Kissingers for the 21st Century?
Toronto Globe and Mail (February 28, 2010)
Twenty Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
From the Cold War to a “Common European Home”
Aargauer Zeitung (6 November 2009)
The Real History of the Korean War
Sixty years ago the defeat of Imperial Japan left the Korean peninsula divided into two antagonistic states one dominated by the Soviet Union, the other dominated by the United States. Both Korean states, and their foreign patrons, hoped to unite the nation behind their respective regimes. The devastating war of 1950-53 failed to fulfill this promise, prolonging the suffering and the division of the Korean people. To this day, Koreans grieve for their loss and long for unification.
Read this editorial in Korean, Japanese, and English at The Chosun Ilbo (October 18, 2005) …
A chance for Bush to salvage his foreign policy
…America’s long time adversary, Iran, similarly contends with a clash of generations and worldviews at home, as well as a cast of external challengers, including the International Atomic Energy Agency and the United Nations Security Council. Leaders in Washington and Tehran need one another. The White House should pursue a “China opening” with Iran. Although Kissinger’s insights from the Vietnam War have not helped in Iraq, his maneuvers with China do provide a model for navigating relations with Iran…
Read the full editorial at the Boston Globe (July 2007) …
This editorial also appeared in the New York Times, 24 July 2007…
Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-building from the Founders to Obama (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, Fall 2011)
Americans are a nation-building people, and in Liberty’s Surest Guardian, Jeremi Suri looks to America’s history to see both what it has to offer to failed states around the world and what it should avoid.
More at the book website >
Jeremi Suri is the Mack Brown Distinguished Professor for Global Leadership, History, and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of five books on contemporary politics and foreign policy. In September 2011 he will publish a new book on the past and future of nation-building: Liberty's Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama. Professor Suri's research and teaching have received numerous prizes. In 2007 Smithsonian Magazine named him one of America's "Top Young Innovators" in the Arts and Sciences. His writings appear widely in blogs and print media. Professor Suri is also a frequent public lecturer and guest on radio and television programs.