Christine Gallagher

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    BlacKkKlansman reverses film’s historic power narrative between Blacks and Whites

BlacKkKlansman reverses film’s historic power narrative between Blacks and Whites

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Spike Lee’s new film about the infiltration of the KKK by a black police detective in the 1970s, BlacKkKlansman was released this month. Christine Gallagher writes that not only does the film make allusions to the America of Donald Trump, it also reverses the previously powerful historic film binary where whites are sympathetic and blacks are portrayed negatively.

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    Why the next president should consider making offshore balancing their foreign policy default

Why the next president should consider making offshore balancing their foreign policy default

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Foreign policy experts John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt recently made a renewed call for the US to adopt an offshore balancing approach to its foreign policy. Christine Gallagher writes that this approach – which pragmatically aims to limit US intervention abroad in favor of local actors checking rising powers themselves – should be seriously considered by the next occupant […]

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