Luke Phillips, Author at Glimpse from the Globe: Recent Episodes
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“True glory lies in doing what deserves to be written; in writing, what deserves to be read.” –Attributed to Pliny the Elder Well, it’s finally time to say goodbye to the organization that midwifed me as a writer and a thinker. This December 2017, I’ll (hopefully) graduate from USC and, with so many others […]
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A version of this essay first appeared at The Hamiltonian Republican. This is Part II of a two-part series. III- A NEW NIXON DOCTRINE As mentioned at the beginning of this essay, the world post-2014 has undergone tectonic shifts in power structure and institutional stability. Our world is as different from George H.W. Bush’s and […]
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I- NIXON’S WORLD AND OURS Most readers will be familiar with the not-often-observed legal responsibility of the President of the United States to provide Congress with an annual report on his administration’s foreign policy initiatives, called the “National Security Strategy.” Though the annual NSS requirement was not put into law until the Goldwater-Nichols Act of […]
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A time-honored tradition in the foreign policy commentariat is the habit of anyone who studies foreign policy for a living–from undergraduates at USC to PhD’s in International Relations and former Undersecretaries of State for Communications Policy– to put on their courtly robes, pretend to be the President’s National Security Advisor, and write him a wide-ranging […]
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For most of the American foreign policy commentariat, myself included, the greatest and most horrendous legacy of a Trump Presidency was always going to be President Trump’s clownish mismanagement of foreign affairs, which many believed would lead to a breakdown in international order and the final end of the liberal international system. Trump’s election, and […]
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In this podcast, Glimpse Senior Correspondent Luke Phillips interviews Dr. Boys on the foreign policy trends and incidents of the Clinton Administration. Dr. Boys argues that President Clinton was first and foremost a foreign policy pragmatist who responded responsibly to the various crises the Post-Cold War world threw at him. Dr. Boys argues that Clinton’s […]
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In October, Glimpse sat down with Terry McCarthy, the president of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, to discuss the world a new American president will face in 2017. For 27 years, McCarthy traveled the world for television and print media to cover politics, business, military, and social issues across the US, Europe, Asia and […]
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Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of many books on foreign affairs including In Europe’s Shadow, Asia’s Cauldron, The Revenge of Geography, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. His writing is eclectic and lucid; an essential voice in modern political scholarship. Kaplan is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security […]
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Correspondents Luke Phillips and Spencer Slagowitz sit down for a conversation about trends in foreign affairs, from trade to climate change to the populist right. The views expressed by the author do not necessarily reflect those of the Glimpse from the Globe staff, editors or governors.
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Correspondents Luke Phillips, Katya Lopatko and Jack Crash Anderson talk geography and the balance of power in Europe and Eurasia. From Westphalia to Vienna to the EU, how do we conceive of the European landmass? It’s more than churches, tourist traps and sold-out David Hasselhoff nostalgia concerts. The views expressed by the author do […]
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