by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 7, 2015 | Foreign Policy
Diplomacy should be wholly transparent. There should be no back-room deals or secret arrangements with dictators. All diplomatic communications should be published on the Internet in real time, and national leaders and diplomats should never meet privately. AGAMEMNON:...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 7, 2015 | Foreign Policy
Realpolitik is a foreign policy based primarily on pragmatic considerations, rather than on moral principles. It should never be engaged in by a free country because a nation should always act according to the moral values of its citizens. Ambitious amoral politicians...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 7, 2015 | Foreign Policy
I … have … seen much of the miseries of war. I am, therefore, in my inmost soul, a man of peace. Yet would I not, for the sake of any peace, consent to sacrifice one jot of England’s honor. Our honor is inseparably combined with our general interest. Hitherto there...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 7, 2015 | Foreign Policy
Free trade spreads civilization The essence of capitalism’s foreign policy is free trade—i.e., the abolition of trade barriers, of protective tariffs, of special privileges—the opening of the world’s trade routes to free international exchange and competition among...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Dec 7, 2015 | Foreign Policy
We should persistently seek to advance freedom, democracy and human rights across the world. The reasons why are, above all, practical. Democracies do not by and large make wars upon each other. Regimes which respect human rights at home are more likely to forswear...
