John C. Hulsman

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John C. Hulsman

Dr. John C. Hulsman is the President and Co-Founder of John C. Hulsman Enterprises (info@john-hulsman.com), a successful political risk consulting firm, specializing in assessing the game changing foreign policy and politico-economic events that will determine the coming shape of the multipolar world. A life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he is the author of all or part of 10 books, including The Godfather Doctrine and a biography of Lawrence of Arabia, To Begin the World Over Again.

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Romney’s stealing of the Bush playbook on foreign policy

John C. Hulsman - U.S. and Us - 7/5/2012
Well, the Republican show is at last mercifully over. It was not easy, but unloved Mitt Romney has at last prevailed over a field of others who could ably staff some traveling carnival. For Barack Obama the whole unedifying spectacle was a gift from heaven...

Due to Newt’s Ego, Romney Still Wins

John C. Hulsman - U.S. and Us - 14/3/2012
What a difference a week makes. Just seven days ago – before the surprising (and potentially game changing) Santorum victories in the Dixie primaries in Alabama and Mississippi – Newt Gingrich’s press spokesman, R. C. Hammond, made a characteristically bold statement...

The true winner of Super Tuesday is a Democrat

John C. Hulsman - U.S. and Us - 7/3/2012
One of the many pernicious things the 24-hour cable news cycle has done to America is to encourage almost endless analytical hyperventilation and over-the-top hyperbole. Given all that time to fill, every event and every political contest is made to look as if it had the consequence of the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg...

After the Michigan primary: does it really matter?

John C. Hulsman - U.S. and Us - 29/2/2012
Despite his robotic demeanor and elitist reserve, spare a kind thought this morning for Mitt Romney. For unlike that of his many challengers, his paint-by-numbers campaign has done nothing really wrong. Unlike Herman Cain, he has lead an exemplary personal life, giving the Democratic attack machine nothing to work with...

Obama’s speech and Foreign Policy: winding down excesses, but then?

John C. Hulsman - U.S. and Us - 25/1/2012
The president must pinch himself every day; this is a man who cannot believe his luck. Despite spending money like a drunken sailor, presiding over an unemployment rate of 8.5%, and being forced to defend the deeply unpopular Obamacare, he must still be seen as the favorite to win re-election...

The problem with Romney's foreign policy

John C. Hulsman - U.S. and Us - 20/1/2012
While it is unrealistic to expect any candidate to fill in all the policy blanks of what they would do if elected, the outlines of Mitt Romney’s foreign policy are clear. Over the Iranian nuclear crisis, for example, the candidate has been most detailed. His Iranian policy makes sense… but only if you enter your time machine and set the controls for about 1990...

Over Foreign Policy, A Republican Debate Worth Having

John C. Hulsman - U.S. and the World - 6/12/2011
The recent Republican presidential candidate debate on foreign policy started as the myriad others had, secure in its otherworldly tone. Most of those on the stage took President Obama to task over his ineffectual leadership regarding the Iranian nuclear crisis...

Why the US presidential race cannot ignore the world – and Europe

John C. Hulsman - U.S. and the World - 8/11/2011
Even by America’s famously insular standards, the Republican race for president has up to now been striking in the desire of the prospective nominees to pretend the rest of the world simply does not exist. The most appalling example of this has to be Herman Cain mocking a reporter who was trying to trap him over the fact that he did not know that Islam Karimov was the leader of Uzbekistan...

The Palestinian statehood bid: end of the road for Mideast peace?

John C. Hulsman - U.S. and the World - 11/10/2011
Almost all the truisms about the endless failure to reach an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement are entirely wrong. My favorite piece of received-wisdom nonsense is that to craft a policy response to guarantee peace is beyond the combined talents of Kissinger, Bismarck and Metternich...

The Libyan adventure: still, not a great idea

John C. Hulsman - U.S. and the World - 29/8/2011
Everyone and their brother predicted the end of Gheddafi, banking on the fact that NATO, the greatest alliance in history, would eventually see off this tin-pot dictator...