Mel Gurtov

Mel Gurtov is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Portland State University, Editor-in-Chief of Asian Perspective, an international affairs quarterly and blogs at In the Human Interest.

Baiting Iran

At Risk—the Idea of America

Wealth, Stealth, and Boeing

Trump’s Nightmare Budget

Trump and Kim, Act II

Game Over? Report Card on Our Planet’s Environment

On China, the US Public Stands Apart

Trump’s Crusade in Latin America

The Shame of the One Percent Continues

Weaponizing Humanitarian Aid

China Policy: Disappointment Is No Excuse

Is China a “Responsible Great Power”?

Getting Away with Murder

A Victory for Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula

On Dealing with China

Coming Apart? Maybe Not

Another Week Under Trumpocracy

Saving Democracy

While Rome (and Most Everywhere Else) Burns

Human Rights Trumped

“Gangsterism” or “Progress”? Examining North Korea’s Latest Statement on Denuclearization

At Home and Abroad, Trump Abandons Human Rights

After Singapore, Is Iran the Next US Target?

What Happened at the Singapore Summit

Trump’s War on the Poor: An Impeachable Offense

Who Is Kim Yong-chol?

In Iran and North Korea, China Holds Some Cards

Who’s to Blame If the US-North Korea Summit Isn’t Held?

Breaking the Iran Deal: The Delusion of Victory

The Korean Summit and After: What the Experts Say, and Miss

Will Abe Shinzo “Make Japan Great Again”?

The Syrian Quandary

Trump’s Dangerous Game of Chicken

The Coming Crisis with Iran

A Blank Check for Repression? A Saudi Leader Visits Washington

Trump Attacks Earth, Resistance and Innovation

Defying the Hawks on the Way to a Trump-Kim Summit

Getting to “Yes” with North Korea

Ignorance and Greed: Trump’s War on the Environment

Was There Really a Breakthrough in US-North Korea Relations?

The Middle East Peace Process: A Cruel Joke

Kushner and China: Where Money Talks

Dubious Partnership: The US and Saudi Arabia

Momentum for Talks with North Korea?

The Calculated Destruction of America’s Government

Stop the Wars: Congress vs. the President

The Trump-Xi Meeting in Beijing, Very Briefly

Are We in a “Post-American Era”?

Trump’s Benghazi

The Tragedy of American Foreign Policy