‘Mr Swagger’ on Day 30 of the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump
by Rashmee
Posted on October 24, 2019
Mike Pompeo is still at the US State Department and is still His Master’s Voice. …
Read MoreA post-American world order? Why this time really is different
by Rashmee
Posted on April 17, 2019
Daniel Drener, international politics professor at the Fletcher Scholl, has been unsparing in his view …
Read MoreNikki Haley is gone. Long live the Trump doctrine
by Rashmee
Posted on October 14, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
What does it matter that Nikki Haley stays or leaves her job as US ambassador …
Read MoreTerror blowback from Middle East wars continues
by Rashmee
Posted on June 4, 2017 / The Arab Weekly
Is there a link between a country’s foreign policy and the terrorist threat it faces? …
Read MoreIf you’re Donald Trump, a missile attack on Syria is a good deal
by Rashmee
Posted on April 8, 2017
Donald Trump has said before (and God knows I believe him on this point) that …
Read MoreThe most hopeful truth ever: ‘We don’t live in a perfect world but in a perfectible one’
by Rashmee
Posted on December 14, 2016
Finally, something to which we all can cling. All the liberals weeping into their muesli. …
Read MoreJoseph Nye is right, less American ‘exemptionalism’ not more interventionism
by Rashmee
Posted on October 26, 2015
Joseph Nye has been warning against US “exceptionalism” turning into “exemptionalism,” which is to say …
Read MoreIran deal: Now two rival petro-states run by mirror-image theocracies?
by Rashmee
Posted on April 4, 2015
What does the deal with Iran really mean? Over at Quartz, Bobby Ghosh says “the …
Read MoreIs this the year North Korea’s Kim Jong Un finally meets another leader?
by Rashmee
Posted on January 19, 2015
“Is this the year that Kim Jong Un finally meets another leader?” asks The Washington …
Read MoreAmerican lameducks and koala bears: How will this keep the little uns safe?
by Rashmee
Posted on November 19, 2014
You have to wonder at the so-called “koala diplomacy” ostentatiously staged by Australia at the …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK