AP champion Stephen Wertheim, senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, returns for a discussion of his recent piece for Carnegie, “Strategic Change in U.S.
My takeaways are that Presidents are not as powerful in foreign policy as we've been lead to believe and that it's highly unlikely that VP Harris will deviate from standard US hegemony as she has neither the motivation or the juice to do anything different.
Interesting - trying to remember the female professor, former diplomat IIRC, who stated that continuing with failed policies would never damage one's career in DC. Hearing about this change of strategy made me think of her statement, which I have very roughly paraphrased...
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My takeaways are that Presidents are not as powerful in foreign policy as we've been lead to believe and that it's highly unlikely that VP Harris will deviate from standard US hegemony as she has neither the motivation or the juice to do anything different.
Interesting - trying to remember the female professor, former diplomat IIRC, who stated that continuing with failed policies would never damage one's career in DC. Hearing about this change of strategy made me think of her statement, which I have very roughly paraphrased...