The Olympics And International Order, Part 1

The Olympics And International Order, Part 1, Forbes, July 31, 2016, "Friday’s opening of the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, will mark a highlight in the sporting calendar. But the Olympics – or, more properly, the International Olympic Committee that controls them – are also just another international organization. The Olympics tell us a lot about how society and the international system have changed, for good and ill, since the modern Games began in 1896 in Athens, Greece."

IOC Should Have Kicked Russian Athletes Out of the Olympic Games in Rio

IOC Should Have Kicked Russian Athletes Out of the Olympic Games in Rio, Newsday, July 31, 2016, "When the Olympic Games open in Brazil on Friday, Russian athletes will be there. Not all of them, but many. It would be better for the games, and the other athletes, if the International Olympic Committee had banned Russia."

A Year Later: Why the Iran Nuclear Deal Has Failed

A Year Later: Why the Iran Nuclear Deal Has Failed, Newsday, July 18, 2016, "This week marks the anniversary of President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran. That deal was never about stopping Iran’s nuclear program. It was about resetting the United States’ relations with Iran and the wider Middle East. By that standard, the deal has been a failure."

Why Did Britain Exit? Because It Finally Got the Chance To

Why Did Britain Exit? Because It Finally Got the Chance To, Weekly Standard Online, July 12, 2016, "The reason immigration mattered in 2016 wasn't that Britain was in the midst of a sudden panic. It was that immigration had been a front-burner issue for 15 years. Immigration, in short, was a background condition. And it was a background condition not because of vague theories about globalization, or vaporous claims about the failure of Britons to "imagine themselves part of a cosmopolitan, thriving democratic polity," but because of specific actions taken by the New Labour government, and broader EU policies, that were very unpopular."

What Mad Cow Disease Tells Us About Brexit

What Mad Cow Disease Tells Us About Brexit, Weekly Standard Online, July 11, 2016, "If we want to understand why the EU was not very popular in Britain in 2016, the answer is simple: After 1995, the EU was never very popular in Britain. If we want, in turn, to understand the EU's long-run unpopularity in the U.K., we need to look at that longue durée, because the U.K. is reliably one of Europe's most Euroskeptic nations. But the fact is that, as far as British opinion since 1995 goes, there was nothing unusual about the conditions under which the 2016 referendum took place."

Losers, Winners, Free Trade, And America

Losers, Winners, Free Trade, And America, Forbes, July 1, 2016, "The 2016 campaign has forced me to face up to an uncomfortable truth–the United States isn’t nearly as friendly to free trade as I’d believed. The remaining candidates either waffle on it or condemn it. I don’t know who will win in 2016, but I do know who looks like losing: all of us."