Peter Isackson

Modern leaders often choose to ignore the complexity of history. Instead, nations respond to media-driven frameworks

With “military Keynesianism,” US foreign policy shifted from weighing war’s costs to calculating expected profits.

Three observers dissect American political scientist Ian Bremmer’s take on French politician Marine Le Pen’s presidential bid,

This dialogue with Kimi K3 traces the decline of classical diplomacy from the Richelieu era to Russian diplomat Sergey

Post-industrial education prizes outcomes over understanding, breeding cheating as a rational response to a system

My ongoing dialogue with Kimi on diplomacy and the military-industrial complex probes the question of whether Eisenhower’s

Having compared Silicon Valley’s AGI ambitions to the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned against

This dialogue with Kimi K3 traces the decline of classical diplomacy from the Richelieu era to Russian diplomat Sergey

Two African stories — one comic, one tragic — collide this week: a State Department slide misdrawing Africa’s HIV-aid map

A close reading of Dafna Rand’s Foreign Affairs essay on America’s “forever wars” names a Beltway pathology — “Empire Envy” — then