Speeches
Arabia, the Persian Gulf, and Great Power Competition
There is a rhythm in the affairs of men, a pattern shaped by enduring interests.It echoes through the ages.So, it is no surprise that empires and external great powers have regularly found themselves drawn to the Red Sea, Arabian Peninsula, and Persian Gulf region.
The 1981-82 Sino-American Taiwan Arms Sales Negotiations
Like everyone here, I feel honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country. I did so for three decades before entering the private sector a quarter century ago. I now chair a globally engaged business development company and the Committee for the Republic. I also lecture at Brown Univ
The Sino-American Split and its Consequences
On Hostile Coexistence with China
President Trump’s trade war with China has quickly metastasized into every other domain of Sino-American relations. Washington is now trying to dismantle China’s interdependence with the American economy, curb its role in global governance, counter its foreign investments, cripple its companies
Order in Turmoil: Making Sense of Kaleidoscopic Change in the Middle East
Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 28, 2019
By now it is widely accepted that U.S. influence in the Middle East is in something approaching freefall. The Arab uprisings of 2011 overthrew the governments in Tunis, Egypt, and Yemen, stimulated bloody miscalculations by both the Syrian government and its opposition, and destabilized Bahrain.
After the Trade War, a Real War with China?
I’m here at your kind invitation to discuss China, how bad our relations with it may get, and how the contest we’ve initiated with China is likely to play out. Let me take a minute or two to set the context for this discussion.
Sino-American Interactions, Past and Future
The Ironies of a Successful U.S. China Policy
China in the Post-American World
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The Middle East after Khashoggi
We are only beginning to understand the slowly unfolding impact of Jamal Khashoggi's murder. I considered him a friend. No one deserves to die as he apparently did. The incident is in every respect repellent.