Sumantra Maitra
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Sumantra Maitra (Twitter: @MrMaitra) is a foreign affairs journalist, and research scholar on foreign policy and neo-realism, based in England. |
September 5, 2017
- What to expect from the German elections
- Angela Merkel will likely win another term as German Chancellor, but she’s going to face many problems if that happens.
August 25, 2017
- Europe is an example of security failures
- An ultra-liberal society is fundamentally incapable of dealing with people who are determined to take advantage of the freedom to corrode it from within.
August 22, 2017
- Bannon, China, and America's return to traditional foreign policy
- The departure of Steve Bannon from the Trump administration allows America to stagger back to the more traditional form of international politics and diplomacy.
August 15, 2017
- Ignore Trump, listen to Mattis and Tillerson on North Korea
- Ignore Trump's bombast; the real messages to North Korea are coming from two of his closest aides.
August 11, 2017
- Tillerson's realpolitik and grand bargain in Asia
- U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's offer of an olive branch to North Korea shows a refreshing degree of pragmatism and provides a hope for peace.
August 3, 2017
- Panda plants and soft power
- There are two ways to gain influence in a given region of the world – either intervention or developing infrastructure. China is showing the latter is a far better approach.
August 2, 2017
- Macron falters as his ratings tumble
- After all the idealism surrounding the election of Emmanuel Macron as French president, reality is beginning to bite, bringing sobering realism to Macron and those who supported him.
July 28, 2017
- Finally, sanity returns in America’s Syria policy
- President Trump's decision to stop arming rebel groups in Syria is the best news the region has had for some time.
July 24, 2017
- The curious tradition of blaming foreign intelligence
- If indeed Russian top policy makers are involved in this operation against the United States, why has it not been "leaked to the media?"
July 12, 2017
- Sino-UK aspirations, lament of liberal ideologues: What was learnt from G20
- The recent G20 summit Hamburg didn’t achieve much, but it at least showed that multi-polarity is steadily replacing the old American unipolar model in world affairs.
