James Goldgeier
Washington Post
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20 years after 9/11, the U.S. is again in a great power confrontation
The end of the Cold War scrambled U.S. foreign policy — and then 9/11 scrambled it again. But this remains the same. → Read More
NATO’s Never-Ending Struggle for Relevance
COVID-19 will disrupt NATO as it has everything else, worsening pre-existing fault lines. The alliance is more than capable of weathering the current → Read More
Promises Made, Promises Broken? What Yeltsin Was Told About NATO in 1993 and Why It Matters
Editor’s Note: This week, War on the Rocks is featuring some old favorites from the archives. This article was originally published in 2016. Surely → Read More
The Trump ‘transcript’ won’t be a transcript. Here’s what to expect.
The record of Trump’s call with Ukraine’s president won’t tell the whole story. Not even close. → Read More
America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11
In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Jim Goldgeier, professor and former dean of the American University School of International Service, and Derek → Read More
WOTR Podcast: Ask Me No Questions, and I'll Tell You No Lies
Every summer, the War on the Rocks crew travels to Beaver Creek, Colorado, where the Clements Center hosts its summer seminar -- an intimate gathering for → Read More
The Kosovo War in Retrospect
As the campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president heats up, a key foreign policy question is whether and under what conditions candidates → Read More
President Trump goes to Europe this week. Its leaders are bracing for the impact.
“he United States is more than doing its part. … Now what we are saying is that rich Western Europe must do its part, and I hope it will.” “e cannot continue to pay for the military protection of Europe while the NATO states are not paying their fair share and living off the ‘fat of the land.’ We have been very generous to Europe and it is now time for us to look out for ourselves, knowing full… → Read More
What North and South Korea can learn from German reunification
Here's what can happen when countries come in from the Cold War. → Read More
Trump’s national security adviser wants to water down U.S. NATO commitments. Here’s what that means.
Trump's nominee for national security adviser wants to water down America's commitment to defend its NATO allies. → Read More
Promises Made, Promises Broken? What Yeltsin Was Told About NATO in 1993 and Why It Matters
Surely the Kremlin watched with no small amount of bitterness last Friday as NATO’s heads of state and government gathered for dinner at Warsaw’s → Read More
25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, our foreign policy needs to go back to the 1940s.
Russia needs to be contained. → Read More
MH17 is a tragedy, not a game-changer
Putin still sees Ukraine as a crucial national interest after the MH17 tragedy. He is almost certainly prepared to endure the pain of sanctions. → Read More
Stop Blaming NATO for Putin’s Provocations
With Vladimir Putin annexing Crimea, inciting violence in Eastern Ukraine, and threatening his → Read More
What Happens After the Crimean Referendum
On Sunday, the people of Crimea will have the chance tovote to leave Ukraine and join the Russian Federation. → Read More
The U.S. Must Isolate Russia for the Sake of Nuclear Nonproliferation
Putin’s use of force in Crimea undermines a key post-Cold War agreement on the denuclearization of Ukraine. → Read More