Grace Buchholz

Grace Buchholz writes on history and foreign policy for Real Clear Politics, Small Wars Journal, and the History News Network.

Articles

Europe

Why Putin won’t be laughing if a comedian becomes Ukraine’s president

Vladimir Putin awaits the outcome of Ukraine’s presidential election run-off like a betting man watching a dog fight. On April 21, current president Petro Poroshenko will face off with a young comedian named Volodymyr Zelensky. With just days to go before the election, pro-Russian mercenaries in the Donbas region are lobbing grenades at Ukrainian troops. […]

America

On foreign policy, Donald Trump takes his lead from Dungeons and Dragons

Pundits and political scientists have tried to analyse Donald Trump’s international policies in terms of game theory, but perhaps they have the wrong kind of game in mind. Trump’s spontaneous, risky gambits– including his advice to Prime Minister Theresa May on Brexit —  are not so much reminiscent of the academic’s ‘Prisoners Dilemma’, nor Battleship, […]

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