International Relations Scholar

Michael Beckley

1 article 2005

Michael Beckley is a political scientist and international relations scholar specializing in U.S.-China relations and great power competition. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2005 with analysis of geopolitical developments.

The End of the Beginning

April 11, 2005 · Magazine

SPEAKING ON FOX NEWS ON March 20, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted that he has no timetable for the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq, reiterating what President Bush himself had said at his press conference just days before. Both men were reacting to the misguided buzz in…