by James Armel Smith | Apr 14, 2020 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, Misinformation, Netherlands, Pandemic | Journalism, Political Science |
Now that America has become the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, President Donald Trump is slipping back into a familiar role: that of television personality. The U.S. president is so pleased with his almost daily press conferences that he is taking to Twitter to... 
by James Armel Smith | Mar 18, 2019 | Border Wall, Donald Trump, Immigration, Irregular migration, Neoliberalism | International Relations, Journalism, Political Science |
If the U.S. truly wants less irregular migration, then it will have to reform its neoliberal economy. The current debate over Trump’s wall is primarily a conflict over window-dressing. At first glance, the political impasse over Donald Trump’s wall appears to reflect... 
by James Armel Smith | Jan 20, 2019 | Border Wall, Donald Trump, Immigration, Mexico, United States | International Relations, Journalism, Political Science |
Modern states have to keep out non-citizens. They cannot do otherwise. A wall , a physical boundary, only makes that more visible, writes Eric Hendriks. Be honest about that. Are you a fence or a wall person? If you consider that a strange question and think that a... 
by James Armel Smith | Dec 5, 2018 | Donald Trump, Human Rights, Jamal Khashoggi, Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia, Trade | International Relations, Journalism, Political Science |
“Blinded by cheap oil and seduced by weapons sales, Trump maintains his alliance with a hereditary dictatorship with medieval social mores.” It remains unsettling even after two years – especially when it is all there in black and white, complete with... 
by James Armel Smith | Oct 26, 2018 | #MeToo, Brett Kavanaugh, Christine Blasey Ford, Donald Trump, Supreme Court | Journalism, Political Science |
It was a bad weekend for the rule of law and democracy. The Chinese director of Interpol disappeared from Lyon and was later found to have been arrested in China. In Turkey, the possibility that Saudi Arabia murdered a critical journalist inside the Saudi consulate in... 
by James Armel Smith | Sep 29, 2018 | Donald Trump, International Criminal Court, John Bolton, The Netherlands, United Nations | International Relations, Journalism, Political Science |
The fact that the United States is … turning its back so emphatically on the international legal order is ultimately harmful to everyone. In his speech at the beginning of this week, U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton combined two favorite subjects: his... 
by James Armel Smith | Sep 12, 2018 | Donald Trump, Human Rights Watch, Saudi Arabia, United States, Weapons, Yemen | International Relations, Journalism, Political Science |
There would be no war in Yemen without American and British weapons. But Carolien Roelants sees no sign of movement toward terminating that assistance. There is an unbelievable photo in which Donald Trump points out on a board the number of weapons he has sold to... 
by James Armel Smith | May 26, 2018 | Donald Trump, Europe, Iran Nuclear Deal, Opinion, United States | International Relations, Journalism |
“[T]here is no doubt that the United States – in the wake of its earlier withdrawal from the Paris climate accord – has, once again, further distanced itself from the international community this week.” With his now well-known bravado, American President... 
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