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Global News Impacting Your Daily Life from @carnegiecouncil's U.S. Global Engagement Initiative. Hosts @tatianaserafin @FPRI_Orbis. thedoorstep@cceia.org.
Sep 21, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This is a critical #doorstep operation--with implications for the U.S. & other countries as well. The #doorstep bargain in Russia was for citizens to passively acquiesce to the government's policies in return for largely being left alone and guaranteed a middle class lifestyle.1/ Putin is upending that bargain. Russians already dealing with sanctions pressure now face (if they are reservists) the prospect of going to Ukraine. Does this lead to more cracks in popular passivity? 2/
May 2, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
So, the more pessimistic side to the thread from a few days ago about the possible emergence of a new narrative for U.S. foreign policy, based on some off-line responses ... 1/ Agreement that, at least in terms of rhetoric, there is the basis for a new convergence. But the details remain unsettled. Several areas in particular: 2/
May 1, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Beginning to see signs that after several years, a new narrative is taking shape to provide coherence to U.S. global engagement. Some of those emerging markers: 1/ The covid pandemic highlighted risks of supply chains for critical goods based out of China. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has called attention to risks of energy & resource dependence on Moscow. Price is not the only object. 2/
Apr 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Always great to talk with @ashjain50 & to discuss the work of the @AtlanticCouncil's Shaping a New Democratic World Order. In particular, focusing on steps that can be taken to enhance U.S. global leadership @ rebuild a robust community of democracies across ... 1/ both the Pacific & the Atlantic, but also will generate concrete #doorstep benefits. He is a proponent of closer cooperation among democratic allies to facilitate efforts to harnessing new technologies so that the democratic world prevails in the race for advanced technology. 2/
Apr 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Doorstep guest #ColinDueck writing in @TheNatlInterest breaks down Republican attitudes on Russia and Ukraine. Citing @pewresearch polls, he notes "73 percent of Republicans favor working with U.S. allies to respond to the Russian invasion." 1/ A March survey conducted by @Reuters , shows an overwhelming majority of GOP voters support a robust set of U.S. measures against Putin’s Russia. Some 3/4 of Republicans support U.S. arms shipments to Ukraine, rigorous economic sanctions, a ban on the import of Russian oil ... 2/
Mar 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
So, having identified different narratives in @POTUS #SOTU, some interesting gaps. 1/ Doorstep guest @reziemba put her finger on it: democratic community when it comes to old-style geopolitics, almost a way to recapture the spirit of the Cold War "Free World"--but not on trade, technology, economy. 2/
Mar 2, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Narrative themes from @POTUS #SOTU: A 🧵... Connecting to the work done by the U.S. Global Engagement project of @carnegiecouncil ... 1/ The "democratic community" narrative. In speaking about confronting Putin, @POTUS cited creation of a "coalition of other freedom-loving nations from Europe and the Americas to Asia and Africa." 2/
Mar 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
One point that came up in yesterday's @carnegiecouncil discussion on principled responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine is how different countries have clear distinctions in which peoples they maintain they have ethical obligations towards. 1/ Hungary much more open to refugees from Ukraine than the Middle East, claiming grounds of cultural similarity and close neighborhood. What is interesting is that Australia which maintains very strict policies in intercepting migrants from the Middle East and Southeast Asia 2/
Mar 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Via @CarolynKissane. Suggests that short-term energy shock could pave the way for major changes. This could even recharge the climate change/technological change narrative as the guiding principle for U.S. foreign policy. 1/ In other words, we announce new programs for energy security that also help advance the energy transition (and as a bonus, can provide good jobs at good wages)--and this is part of the rejuvenation of our alliances. 2/
Feb 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
What will be the #doorstep reactions in the U.S. and around the world as the first impacts of major sanctions on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine begin to impact markets. Will public support for taking strong measures against Moscow for its invasion be sustained? 1/ What are traders and analysts noting today? 2/
Dec 30, 2021 • 9 tweets • 13 min read
Yesterday, we catalogued some of the 2021 Doorstep episodes that discussed trends shaping our international system and our future. We close out today with a look at podcasts focusing on different areas of the world. 1/ Perhaps our most poignant and gripping report came from Afghanistan in the days after the Taliban retook control of the country, with @alibomaye & @saberibrahimi ... 2/ carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multime…
Dec 28, 2021 • 14 tweets • 36 min read
Yesterday, we assessed the "state of the narrative" about U.S. global engagement after the first year of the Biden/Harris administration by referring back to 2021 episodes of the Doorstep Podcast. Today we look at trends shaping the global system. 1/ .@gabrielboric election in Chile is the latest 2021 signal of generational change in politics. Born 1986, he has no memory of the Cold War and came to political maturity in the post-9/11 world. We looked at the ? of generational change with @aubcott ... 2/ carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multime…
Dec 27, 2021 • 14 tweets • 18 min read
As we exit 2021, how has the #doorstep figured in discussions of U.S. foreign policy? And has the Biden/Harris administration laid the foundations for a new narrative for U.S. global engagement? Our last podcast with @MoElleithee starts the discussion. 1/ carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multime… Colin Dueck raised concerns about the "say/do" gap--that rhetoric would outpace actual action. We've had a number of statements: foreign policy for the middle class, America is back, build back better ... how is that translating? 2/
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Sep 13, 2021 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
@RadioFreeTom #NickGvosdev here. Since I teach History of the Cold War for @HarvardExt, let me add my two cents. In class one, we look at the impact of 1917 and the attempt to reach a consensus during World War II. In class, we date start of Cold War to 1946, based on 1) Iran situation ... 1/ @RadioFreeTom @HarvardExt 2) Stalin's 1946 speech; 3) stopping of travel between the Korean zones; 4) breakdown of Allied coordination on Germany ... continues through 1947 and 1948 based on how elections in Eastern Europe shake out, and the rejection of the Marshall Plan. Symbolically by March 1948, 2/
Sep 7, 2021 • 8 tweets • 12 min read
At the beginning of 2019, @RadioFreeTom and @ianbremmer met at the @carnegiecouncil to discuss globalization and populism. Recent @Ipsos and @wef polls bear revisiting their conclusions. 1/ carnegiecouncil.org/studio/multime… @RadioFreeTom @ianbremmer @carnegiecouncil @Ipsos @wef The findings suggest "a mix of polarization and ambivalence among the public throughout the world about free trade, globalization, and protectionist policies." 2/ ipsos.com/en/sentiment-a…
Sep 4, 2021 • 4 tweets • 6 min read
Important piece from @profmusgrave ... suggests that the climate change narrative we identified at the @carnegiecouncil may not have as much motivating power in domestic politics ... 1/ @profmusgrave @carnegiecouncil We've seen this in the discussion in recent days with @reziemba, @CarolynKissane and @v_madalina about how short-term doorstep considerations, especially pocketbook concerns about energy prices, can trump longer-term climate policy. 2/
Aug 18, 2021 • 9 tweets • 11 min read
This @Reuters report from @Cmkahn detailing @Ipsos polling demonstrates the contradictory impulses on the part of U.S. voters, both in policy and ethical terms. 1/ reuters.com/world/us/biden… @Reuters @Cmkahn @Ipsos "For example, a majority of the 18-to-65-year-olds who took the Ipsos survey - 68% - agreed that the war “was going to end badly, no matter when the U.S. left,” and 61% wanted the United States to complete its withdrawal of troops on schedule." 2/
Aug 18, 2021 • 11 tweets • 18 min read
Continuing the conversation started at @RadioFreeTom and with the contributions by @JonNeeter and @bren1008, we are fundamentally grappling with the question of narratives: why do we do what we do in the world? 1/ @RadioFreeTom @JonNeeter @bren1008 This is what the @carnegiecouncil U.S. global engagement project has been trying to do since 2018 ... what are the frameworks we are using to situate our role? 2/ carnegiecouncil.org/publications/a…
Aug 17, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
That the Taliban feel the need to state they will guarantee women's rights (albeit "under the limits of Islam") in 2021--a statement they never felt compelled to make in 1996--suggests that they are aware that the situation today is different. 1/ Statements don't mean much unless backed by deeds, and if actions contradict the statements, then we know how much they are worth. Also of interest is an apparent recognition of the concept of sovereignty--that other states and countries live under their own laws. ... 2/
Aug 16, 2021 • 11 tweets • 14 min read
As we watch developments in Afghanistan and as the blame game continues in U.S. domestic politics, this might be a good time to revisit @DerekSReveron's important paradigm for understanding national security policy: the die-kill-pay (ignore) paradigm. 1/ @DerekSReveron Revisiting @LauraWalkerKC's observation here: this is the crux of the matter. The Afghan mission was one where the public has signaled they no longer want Americans to kill or be killed, so it raises the question now: what tools to prevent ... 2/
Dec 29, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
As we close out the year, an observation from co-host Nick Gvosdev ... as I grade exams of my senior students at the @NavalWarCollege and in particular questions that deal with the "liberal international order", it reinforces the importance, per yesterday's tweet, of ... 1/ politicians and thought leaders making the case for engagement. 2/