Christopher Mott is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy.
He is the author of “The Formless Empire: A Short History of Diplomacy and Warfare in Central Asia.”
Chris can be reached at: chris.mott@peacediplomacy.org.
When it comes to foreign policy, the 2020s might be about to go retro. And nothing could be so perfectly targeted to hit that pre-Trump nostalgia spot for the administrative class quite like “Responsible American Leadership.” In this post-Cold War era, this term always seems to mean a rhetorical...