Very Former Diplomat
Eric TerzuoloInternational and domestic politics, Europe and the US, from a radical centrist perspective.
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The “horseshoe theory of politics”
Though international attention understandably is riveted on the November 3 US legislative elections, it’s worth thinking further ahead. Four of Europe’s largest states – France, Italy, Poland, and Spain – will hold parliamentary elections i...
Burdens of leadership in politics
In his 1902 novella Typhoon, Joseph Conrad wrote: “Jukes was uncritically glad to have his captain at hand. It relieved him as though that man had, by simply coming on deck, taken most of the gale’s weight upon his shoulders. Such is the pr...
Failure of “IndyCar diplomacy”
It’s sometimes hard to resist an “I told you so.” Not long after the presidential inauguration, I warned that chief of protocol nominee Monica Crowley was woefully unqualified for what was in fact a highly significant role. We got a good de...
No international observers for the November elections
In 2024, observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), of which the US was a founding member, reported that November elections in the US had demonstrated “the resilience of the country’s democratic institut...
Magical thinking versus experience and pragmatism
I’ve spent a lot of my life trying to explain United States politics and policies to European audiences. Questions often have to do with the roles and powers of U.S. states. The Electoral College is a particular head-scratcher, and conversa...
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