Making Policy in the New Administration

The Trump White House continues to receive advice – solicited and unsolicited, in letters to the editor, op-eds, essays, and policy papers – as to what its foreign policy priorities should be.  It is tempting to presume that problems called "priorities" can be resolved with just a little more savvy or a little more will.  But if they could have been, they would have been.  Instead, the administration might consider priorities for American behavior – political, economic, and military. First, there are three questions to be asked: What should the United States do to ensure that allies feel secure and adversaries don't? How can America encourage countries that are neither allies nor adversaries to cooperate on issues of importance? How can Washington encourage countries to want to be "more like us" (politically and economically free with more transparent government) and "less like them" (totalitarian,...(Read Full Article)