Tag Archives: Reinhold Niebuhr

US Foreign Policy and the Niebuhrian Needle

Posted on October 8, 2012 by

Later next month the US electorate goes to the polls to vote in the Presidential elections. With high unemployment and anaemic economic growth foreign policy is unlikely to be a major influencing factor in the way Americans vote. For the … Continue reading →

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The Slow Death of Multilateralism and the Remaking of the Old World Order

Posted on June 28, 2012 by

The meeting today of the European Council kicks of yet another round of European Summitry to resolve the structural ills affecting the Eurozone. Europe’s inability over the last two years to take the necessary corrective steps bodes ill both for the … Continue reading →

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David Cameron and the Lord Mayor’s Banquet – A Business Like Approach to British Foreign Policy

Posted on November 16, 2010 by

Fresh from his visit to the Far East David Cameron last night gave the Prime Minister’s annual foreign policy speech at the Lord Mayor’s banquet in London. Central to his speech was the claim that British’s position in the world, … Continue reading →

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