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Wed. June 26, 2019

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Operation “Freedom From Iraq”

Even the most idealistic of Iraq’s partisans can’t weigh the mountain of dead against the nation’s “messy freedom” and find solace. The President concedes that regional terror is up, Iran and Syria e... Read More...

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A World Free of Nuclear Weapons

This distinguished group of authors argues that the process of denuclearization must first start with current nuclear states destroying their stockpiles. Only such measures can prevent the mutually a... Read More...

A Border Security Strategy for Bush and Calderón: Improve Cooperation Between the U.S. and Mexico

To reduce the problem of illegal immigration across the US-Mexico border, the two countries should move beyond the Secure Fence Act and move towards a strategy of cooperation. By Stephen Johnson (Heri... Read More...

Bush Might Want Another Go at “Democratizing” Iraq

Author critiques possible US troop increases. By Claude Salhani. (IA-Forum, 12/22/2006) Read More...

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Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World

Charles Krauthammer's 2004 Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI that makes the case for the United States to use its position of international pre-eminence to pursue a foreign policy of "democratic realism" ... Read More...

International Affairs Forum Interview: Robert Kagan

International Affairs Forum speaks with Dr. Robert Kagan about his new book, Dangerous Nation, that examines perceptions of American history and policy. (11/28/2006, IA-Forum) Read More...

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Endangered Advisers

Author says the Iraq Study Group’s advice to increase the number of advisers while decreasing the number of combatants will lead to disaster. By Andrew Exum. (New York Times, 12/10/2006) Read More...

Close the Bases

To stop the slide to civil war in Iraq, international mediators must negotiate directly with the Sunni insurgency that has been seeking talks with the US for three years; offer amnesty; roll back de-B... Read More...

Don’t Get Sectarian

Albright says the Bush administration should make clear to Muslims in the Middle East that America will not take sides in the Sunni-Shiite split. By Madeleine Albright. (New York Times, 12/10/2006) Read More...

Democracy Defeated

Missing from the Iraq Study Group’s report is serious reflection on the president’s goal of democratic development in the despotic Arab world. In addition, Perle adds that the conclusion that Syria an... Read More...

Have Faith in Maliki

Stewart says progress can only come to Iraq if the US provides almost unconditional economic and political support to the elected president and allows him to rebuild his state without interference or ... Read More...

After Neo-conservatism

Francis Fukuyama discusses the failure of neo-conservatism in American foreign policy and his own rejection of neo-conservative thought. (New York Times, 02/19/2006) Read More...

Intenational Affairs Forum Interview: Peter Beinart and Scott McConnell

Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of the New Republic and Scott McConnell, current editor of The American Conservative, discuss questions about the UN and US foreign policy. By Jason Miks. (IA-Forum, 1... Read More...

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Fidel's Final Victory

The U.S. must recognize the political reality in Cuba and stop insisting on regime change. Otherwise, it will miss another opportunity to improve relations in the post-Fidel period that is already un... Read More...

This Is Realism?

Why the “new” ideas concerning the Iraq War do not represent Realism or a viable solution to the conflict. By Charles Krauthammer (Washington Post, 12/01/2006) Read More...

Cowboy Nation: Against the Myth of American Innocence

The author dwells on America's expansionist past while looking to the future of Washington's foreign policy. By Robert Kagan (The New Republic, 10/16/2006) Read More...

After the victory

Article looks at what sort of policies the new Democratic Congress will enact. Focus is on the appointment of senior and veteran democrats. (The Economist, 11/09/06) Read More...

Deterring Kim Jong Il

The former assistant secretary of defense criticizes President Bush's North Korea policy. By Graham Allison. (Washington Post, 10/27/2006) Read More...

Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite?

The author writes that many lawmakers and senior intelligence and law enforcement officials overseeing the War on Terror do not know the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims, the primary religiou... Read More...

The Unsolved Case Of Anthrax

The author, the victim of an Anthrax letter attack in 2001, admonishes the FBI for not adequately investigating this case with as much importance as it deserves. By Tom Daschle. (Washington Post, 10/1... Read More...

International Affairs Forum Interview: Admiral Bobby R. Inman, USN (Ret.)

IA Forum speaks with Admiral Bobby R. Inman, USN (Ret.), the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, former Director of the National Security Agency ... Read More...

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Our Failure in Europe's East

What confounds both Europe and the US are the complexity of post-Soviet societies and the impotence of Western institutions. By Bruce Jackson. (Washington Post, 10/8/2006) Read More...

Afghanistan: Five Years Later

After America's five year occupation of Afghanistan, Rumsfeld takes stock of the situation. By Donald Rumsfeld. (Washington Post, 10/7/2006) Read More...

The Ghost of the Oval Office

The author writes about revelations in the new book by Bob Woodward on the Bush Administration that Henry Kissinger is the most frequent outside advisor to the Bush Administration. By James Mann. (New... Read More...

Sinking Globalization

Many of the conditions that led to the collapse of the first age of globalization exist today and suggest that the current global system may be just as vulnerable and unprepared. By Niall Ferguson, (... Read More...

The Cold Wars are coming

An increase in the number of nuclear armed states may lead to multiple regional cold wars with the ability to cause greater destruction than the first Cold War. By Niall Ferguson, (Los Angles Times, ... Read More...

The IMF's America Problem

If the IMF is truly committed to addressing global economic imbalances, then it should concentrate on the greatest threat to this goal: the U.S. trade deficit and not the value of China’s currency. B... Read More...

Making globalisation work

Globalization can live up to its promise of higher living standards for everyone, but only if properly managed. A better understanding of the problems and anomalies of globalization and cooperation w... Read More...

The Case for Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements

Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements are presented in a mock memorandum as a way to promote American influence and principles in Asia while counterbalancing China’s increasing role. By Sherm... Read More...

The Iraq War: Mission Impossible

This Der Spiegel piece suggests that, by ousting Saddam Hussein and invading Iraq, the US has exposed its vulnerabilities as a military force. Its failure to maintain stability and subdue violence in ... Read More...

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