by Matt Freear | May 19, 2015 | Monitor
By now Secretary Kerry should have presented Congress with the State Department’s latest official annual review of the state of global terrorism. It will make hard reading and itemize a litany of failures in the seemingly unending war on terror. In the last 12 months...
by Maggie Feldman-Piltch | Jul 18, 2014 | Monitor
An op-ed in today’s LA Times by LTGen Claudia Kennedy USA (Ret.) and BGen Stephen Cheney USMC (Ret.), both of the American Security Project, call on the Senate to prioritize the confirmation of the more than 40 nominees for vacant ambassadorial positions. The...
by Matthew Wallin | Aug 21, 2012 | Monitor
Al Jazeera uses highlights sports diplomacy with Latin and South America to discuss U.S. policy towards Syria. Yesterday, Al Jazeera English aired a segment discussing the use of “smart power” in the Middle East. Smart power is the combined application of hard and...
by Matthew Wallin | Aug 13, 2012 | Monitor
This past week, Bruce Stokes and Richard Wike of the Pew Research Center wrote an op-ed for CNN discussing the results of Pew’s recent polling of America’s stature in certain parts of the world. Their title, “World to America: We want soft, not hard power” draws...
