Ted Galen Carpenter

Ted Galen Carpenter is a senior fellow at the Randolph Bourne Institute and a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute. During a 37-year career at the Cato Institute, Dr. Carpenter also served in various policy positions. He is the author of more than 1,200 articles, as well as 13 books, including Unreliable Watchdog: The News Media and U.S. Foreign Policy (2022).

Beleaguered hegemon: How Washington tries to preserve strategic primacy in East Asia

Recent US diplomatic and military moves in the Pacific theater are conveying a strong message to both friends and foes that Washington is determined to preserve the hegemonic status the United States has enjoyed since the end of World War…

Caught in the middle: Europe and the growing U.S.-China animosity

There is little doubt that the rivalry between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has intensified since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. As the level of animosity between those two countries builds, the danger…

How coronavirus tensions sicken U.S.-China relations

Relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) were not in great shape even before the coronavirus outbreak erupted. Washington and Beijing had been waging a trade war since the earliest months of Donald…

Trump’s Brass Knuckles Tactics toward the European Allies

President Trump’s concept of “America First” has little to do with reducing America’s overgrown security commitments around the world. Knowledgeable advocates of a new foreign policy based on realism and restraint have made a compelling…

The rationale and contours of an amicable Transatlantic security divorce

French President Emmanuel Macron created a huge stir on both sides of the Atlantic in early November when he stated that NATO was experiencing “brain death.” This was not a casual, off-hand comment on his part. When reporters asked Macron…

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