Politics

For many, the election of Donald Trump as US President is the start of an uncertain time. We have already seen that some troublesome campaign rhetoric is actually becoming policy through the [...]

Like many, I watched in shock when Donald Trump got elected President on November 8. But soon as the numbers came in and I read the different analyses on how his election come to pass I was not [...]

This is going to be short one. I usually have one or two posts already prepared before either Monday or Thursday, but unfortunately not for today. Plus, I had a sleep-in today, because I am a [...]

[Warning: long and cliché complaint about the abominable status of political discourse everywhere. You will have heard or read it all before. Ignore at your own convenience. Or not.] Are we [...]

[Warning: long read] This was a tough one. Shadi Hamid’s book ’Islamic Exceptionalism‘ is about one of the most pressing issues of the day  It cannot really be reviewed in a few hundred or [...]

Foreign policy and national security is at the forefront of the US Presidential Election this year. Publicly, the focus has been on two simple things. One, Donald Trump’s knowledge of and [...]

After a ridiculous seven years, the Chilcot inquiry about the UK’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003 with the US finally produced a very lengthy report. It must have taken about a year just to [...]

I thought I’d give you my two cents on the Brexit referendum that was held two days ago. All of the offered explanations for the Brexit have considerable merit, but disregard its root cause. I [...]

What better way to start the book reviews for this blog than to cover Henry Kissinger’s ’World Order’. What did he think about international law as a feature of any world order? I had to re-read [...]