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The Social Sledgehammer

Need for a New Consensus

By Mercury on September 20, 2019

Josh Rogin follows up on the move to institutionalize transactionalism as the guiding principle of U.S. foreign aid. The draft directive makes it clear that,…

Candidates, Calculus and the Iran Crisis

By Mercury on September 18, 2019

I had the distinct honor and pleasure of speaking with the members of the Greater Des Moines Committee on Foreign Relations this past Tuesday around…

The Narrative IS Changing …

By Mercury on September 12, 2019

One of the criticisms that the U.S. Global Engagement project has received over the past year is the assessment that we are assigning too much…

Introduction

By Mercury on September 9, 2019

It is hard to imagine a threat to international security or a tension within U.S. foreign policy that does not involve the imposition of economic…