Ted Bromund

Washington, D.C.

Contributor at Freelance

Senior Research Fellow, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, The Heritage Foundation. Retweet ≠ Endorsement.

Articles

Interpol General Assembly Inches Forward on Transparency, Still Needs Reform Strategy

Dec 9, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Ted Bromund |Sandra A. Grossman

This year’s Interpol General Assembly went surprisingly well for democratic member States. Unexpected defeats for Russia and the United Arab Emirates at the top of the organization showed what the democracies can achieve in this global police-coordination agency.
Britain's Brexit Delay is Ridiculous

Nov 5, 2024 | heritage.org | Ted Bromund

Britain’s House of Commons has voted to request a delay in Britain’s exit from the European Union. It’s like a kid who removes a band-aid slowly hoping it’ll hurt less. Far better to rip it off and be done with it. The people of the United Kingdom voted in June 2016 to leave the EU. Both major parties pledged to support that in June 2017.
As Interpol Gets New Secretary General, What are the Risks of Abuses Over Reforms?

Nov 1, 2024 | justsecurity.org | Ted Bromund |Sandra A. Grossman |Ilan Greenberg

Interpol’s supreme governing body, the General Assembly, will formally elect the organization’s new secretary general at its next meeting Nov. 4-7 in Glasgow, Scotland. The incoming secretary general, who is responsible for Interpol’s day-to-day operations, should be prepared to advance a reform agenda, because while the improvements Interpol has made to its institutions and procedures over the past eight years are significant, they are insufficient.
Trump’s UK Visit Was a Glowing Success

Oct 5, 2024 | heritage.org | Ted Bromund

It’s not too much to call President Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain, which concluded on Wednesday, a big success. The curious thing is that much of the American media went out of their way to ignore that fact. The New York Times stands in for a lot of the U.S. coverage. “Trump Insults London Mayor as ‘Loser’ as He Pays Tribute to the Queen,” it blared on Monday as the state visit began.
The Perils of Presidential Success

Sep 28, 2024 | heritage.org | Ted Bromund

Success is a dangerous thing for presidents. Few have resisted the temptation to apply the approach that led to one supposed success to other problems. And most of them have gotten burned as a result. From North Korea, President Donald Trump has moved on to Russia. That’s not a good pattern. It’s hard to have a success as president, especially in the realm of foreign policy. The world is an intractable place that we don’t understand well.
We Are Only As Powerless As We Want to Be

Sep 15, 2024 | heritage.org | Ted Bromund

The poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the English town of Salisbury is the work of the Russians. We know it, and when they bluster in denial, they are lying. This is not the first of their political murders. The time for proportional responses to Russia is over. By one count, Skripal’s poisoning is the 15th death, or near-death, related to Russia in Britain since 2006 — and that doesn’t include the suspicious deaths in Skripal’s family.
Will Trump’s Iran Strategy Work?

Sep 11, 2024 | heritage.org | Ted Bromund

In his first major policy speech as secretary of state — delivered Monday at the Heritage Foundation — Mike Pompeo set out the Trump administration’s Iran strategy. It’s heartening that the United States has a plan: ditching the nuclear deal is well and good, but it’s not a strategy. But is the plan a good one? In many respects, it is. The administration’s plan begins with two reasonable arguments.
With Her Chequers Plan, Theresa May Is Repeating the Mistakes of Former Tory Prime Ministers

Sep 9, 2024 | heritage.org | Ted Bromund

It’s probably a mistake to devote much mental or emotional energy to the Chequers Plan. The Plan is unlikely to survive the Commons, and even more unlikely to be acceptable to the EU. If it is designed to fail in order to pitch Britain back into the Customs Union and the Single Market, it has been well-crafted.
British Conservatives Are Growing Weary of Their Own Leaders

Sep 3, 2024 | heritage.org | Ted Bromund

The annual party conference of the British Conservative Party wrapped up on Wednesday in the city of Birmingham. It’s been years—almost 20 years, in fact—since Conservative Party conferences were actually a genuine meeting of party members. Over those years, the conference has been more and more tightly controlled, with lobbyists and companies taking the place of actual conservative voices.
A very British shock result and what it may mean

Sep 1, 2024 | heritage.org | Ted Bromund

I’ve studied Britain for 20 years, but this last week gave me an appreciation for its politics I’ve never had before. Over the last seven days, I followed Conservative candidates in Darlington, Bradford West and Brent Central as they canvassed and addressed the public. All worked hard; all were worthy, and all were in tough constituencies. In the end, none won. Like every other commentator, I failed to predict accurately the outcome of the election. I thought the Tories would win 280 seats.