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Blue Steel diplomacy

April 20, 2017 By Pete Trumbore

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When Vice President Mike Pence said this:

I thought it was important that people on the other side of the DMZ see our resolve in my face.

Did anyone else think of this?

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Filed Under: Observations, Uncategorized Tagged With: Blue Steel, Mike Pence, North Korea, Zoolander

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  1. Stephen Jurcak says

    April 20, 2017 at 1:55 pm

    I love your take on everything, Professor. That being said, wouldn’t Blue Steel diplomacy be a mirror image of traditional American foreign policy? (Blue Steel, Le Tigre, Magnum….they are all the same look. How does nobody notice this? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!)

    I feel like we have been a tad bit schizophrenic since the end of the Cold War. Dan Rochon and I, both students of yours, are writing an analysis of post-1990 American foreign policy on exactly this issue and will attempt a policy prescription with the hope that someone in Washington gets some common sense these days.

    • Pete Trumbore says

      April 20, 2017 at 3:58 pm

      Let me know when you get it figured out!

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