14 October 2025
Rehabilitating the “Neocons” is no Zeitenwende
The old adage “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is prevailing in 2025 Berlin foreign policy circles. The US architects of the 2003 Iraq War were once synonymous with the breakdown of the Transatlantic Alliance and post-War international order. No longer, with Secretary Condoleezza Rice, Ambassador John Bolton and Professor Philip Zelikow all making recent public appearances to offer advice on renewing US global leadership. Their aspiration for intellectual authority in constructing a new international order demands an equal account of their complicity in deconstructing the order that went before it. Continue reading >>
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