Will Racke

A realist approach to Russia

By Will Racke on December 12, 2016 national security, NATO, russia, Syria

Some foreign policy thinkers hope Donald Trump will reform Washington’s broken relationship with Moscow through a strategy grounded in realpolitik.

International Relations

Jim Webb praises populism at home, realism abroad

By Will Racke on November 28, 2016 foreign policy, Jim Webb, national security, NATO

Jim Webb, the former U.S. senator, secretary of the Navy and brief candidate in the Democratic presidential primary, delivered the keynote address at The American Conservative’s Nov. 15 symposium, where his outsider sensibility and skepticism of U.S. military intervention abroad found warm welcome among the foreign policy scholars and writers in attendance.

International Relations

On a razor’s edge

By Will Racke on November 22, 2016 foreign policy, national security, NATO, russia, Syria

The relationship between Washington and Moscow today is more fraught with tension and uncertainty than it has been since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

International Relations

New Washington think tank urges detente with Russia (Part Two)

By Will Racke on November 8, 2016 foreign policy, national security, russia

The Defense Priorities Foundation was founded in early 2016 in order to promote what it calls a “more prudent, restrained foreign policy” based less on military intervention and more on diplomacy and economic exchange. The think tank is staffed by conservative and libertarian foreign policy researchers and advisers. I spoke with Defense Priorities foreign policy fellow and defense expert Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis (USA, Ret.) about the state of the U.S.-Russia relations and if the two governments can resolve their geopolitical differences amid an atmosphere of mutual acrimony.

International Relations

New Washington think tank urges detente with Russia (Part One)

By Will Racke on November 8, 2016 foreign policy, national security, russia

The Defense Priorities Foundation was founded in early 2016 in order to promote what it calls a “more prudent, restrained foreign policy” based less on military intervention and more on diplomacy and economic exchange. The think tank is staffed by conservative and libertarian foreign policy researchers and advisers. I spoke with Defense Priorities fellow Matt Purple about the state of the U.S.-Russia relations and if the two governments can resolve their geopolitical differences amid an atmosphere of mutual acrimony.