Geopoliticus May 24, 2018 Trump’s Summit Cancellation: What It Means, and Where We Go from Here From the beginning, the summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un was slated to be a strange event. What... Read more »
Geopoliticus April 12, 2018 Departure of Bossert Reveals “Boltonization” of National Security Council Yesterday, Thomas P. Bossert, the President’s Homeland Security Advisor, abruptly resigned from his post. It came as a surprise... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 29, 2018 Comrade Kim Goes to China, but What Does That Really Mean? At a time when “ordinary” doesn’t seem to exist in Korean affairs, Kim Jong-un’s recent visit to China affirmed... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 14, 2018 What Do Trump’s Tariffs Mean for the World Trade Organization? It's not unusual for U.S. politicians on the campaign trail to decry free trade. Most voters will be happy... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 8, 2018 What Will Kim and Trump Actually Talk About? The news that North Korea’s Kim Jong-un has invited Donald Trump for talks, and that Trump has accepted, is... Read more »
Geopoliticus March 2, 2018 Compete and Cooperate to Make U.S. National Security Strategies Great Again Colleagues at the U.S. Army War College recently published a piece making important arguments that largely echo the competitive... Read more »
Geopoliticus December 11, 2017 What’s in a Name?: Strategy Behind the “Indo-Pacific” Throughout his tour of Asia in November 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly referred to the region through which... Read more »
Geopoliticus November 10, 2017 Trump’s Seoul Speech: All the Right Points, Still No Way Forward President Trump’s speech in South Korea’s National Assembly on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 was likely the best foreign policy... Read more »
Geopoliticus August 9, 2017 What North Korea’s Statement against Trump Really Means It would be hard to deny that rhetoric on and around the Korean peninsula is at a high mark.... Read more »
Geopoliticus July 13, 2017 Why We Must Recognize North Korea The reason that negotiations over North Korea have never achieved anything is simple. Their avowed goal is impossible to... Read more »