Ta-ta and au revoir

I’m off to Europe for an intensive week-long series of meetings to think about the transatlantic relationship. Blogging will hereby be intermittent for a few days. Talk amongs yourselves. Topics: 1) Barack Obama gave a foreign policy speech. What do you think of it? 2) Daryl Press and Eugene Gholz argue in this Cato briefing ...

By , a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast.

I'm off to Europe for an intensive week-long series of meetings to think about the transatlantic relationship. Blogging will hereby be intermittent for a few days. Talk amongs yourselves. Topics: 1) Barack Obama gave a foreign policy speech. What do you think of it? 2) Daryl Press and Eugene Gholz argue in this Cato briefing that concerns about peak oil, resource-grabbing by China, and poltical instability affecting U.S. energy imports are overblown. Compare and contrast with Thomas F. Homer-Dixon's essay about environment-inducing wars in the New York Times. Can both visions of the future be correct? 3) Books that you're reading. I'm taking with me the proofs version of Brink Lindsey's Age of Abundance and John Lukacs' George Kennan.

I’m off to Europe for an intensive week-long series of meetings to think about the transatlantic relationship. Blogging will hereby be intermittent for a few days. Talk amongs yourselves. Topics:

1) Barack Obama gave a foreign policy speech. What do you think of it? 2) Daryl Press and Eugene Gholz argue in this Cato briefing that concerns about peak oil, resource-grabbing by China, and poltical instability affecting U.S. energy imports are overblown. Compare and contrast with Thomas F. Homer-Dixon’s essay about environment-inducing wars in the New York Times. Can both visions of the future be correct? 3) Books that you’re reading. I’m taking with me the proofs version of Brink Lindsey’s Age of Abundance and John Lukacs’ George Kennan.

Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner

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