William R. Hawkins

On May 31, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth spoke at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. This is the world’s highest profile international meeting of national security officials; and certainly the most watched, because it was the…

President Donald Trump issued a proclamation celebrating Victory in Europe Day (VE Day), marking the 80th anniversary of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany on May 8, 1945. He stated “we celebrate the unmatched might, strength, and…

I spent most of my time during 20 years in Washington, D.C. working in a bipartisan manner on trade policy with the aim of keeping here, then bringing back, strategic industries. There was then a coalition of national security Republicans…

The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee held its first hearing of the new Congress exercising its oversight responsibilities in regard to the behavior of U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). My last post in Washington was to…

The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (QIRS) was founded in 2019 with initial funding from George Soros and Charles Koch, libertarians supposedly working to “free” the world from war. Other funding has come from the Carnegie…

The United Nations has been looking for issues deemed larger than the perennial conflicts of traditional geopolitics. It created the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992 to acquire the authority to run the global economy so as…

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) opened its 79th session on September 24 with a week of speeches by representatives of 134 nations (out of a total of 193 members states, with another 118 observer entities and organizations).…

At an event in Pennsylvania marking the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, President Joe Biden donned a “Trump 2024” cap handed to him by a Republican in the audience. The White House said this was a show of unity in the face of foreign…

The American Enterprise Institute is generally considered part of the “conservative” network of think tanks working to influence policy in Washington D.C. Founded in 1938 by executives of major corporations in opposition to the New Deal,…

The liberal-left reaction to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent trip to Washington was negative for a simple reason: he is pursuing victory in the existential war against Hamas in Gaza amidst the larger regional…