foreign policy

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• 6/16/19
  

  Ideologies and U.S. Foreign Policy International History Conference: Day 2 Coverage

  by Miriam Lipton

  What was the global significane of the Civil War? What exactly is the definition of “freedom?” How are Donald Duck, Indiana Jones, and anti-modernizationistsconnected? The second day of the Ideologies and U.S. Foreign Policy International History Conference was highlighted by experts’ bold answers to these ambitious questions.

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• 6/16/19
  

  "Donald Trump and Ideology:" Dr. James Lindsay Delivers the Governor Tom McCall Memorial Lecture

  by Miriam Lipton and Marcelo Carocci

  History and Trump's ideology of American power and foreign relations.

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• 6/16/19
  

  The Origins of American Hegemony in East and Southeast Asia – And Why China Challenges It Today

  by Wen-Qing Ngoei

  Examining the origins of American hegemony in this region helps us better understand the history of the Cold War. 

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• SOURCE: The American Historical Review
  6/4/19
  

  Frantz Fanon and the CIA Man

  by Thomas Meaney

  Based on an encounter with Fanon’s CIA handler, C. Oliver Iselin, Meaney presents the firsthand experience of a mid-level figure in the U.S. security state who participated in the national liberation movements in Africa. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  6/10/19
  

  The Cold War's Global Legacy of Misinformation

  by Jennifer M. Miller

  Today's deep apprehension about the consequences of misinformation and foreign subversion can make it easy to forget that such fears are not new. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  5/29/19
  

  The Making of the Military-Intellectual Complex

  by Daniel Bessner

  Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  5/2/19
  

  Spring Stirrings and Misgivings

  by Rebecca Gordon

  Of Autocrats and Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  4/15/19
  

  Lessons From Vietnam on Leaving Afghanistan

  by George C. Herring

  There’s No Good Way to End a Bad War, but Some Options Are Worse Than Others.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  Accessed 4/11/19
  

  The End of the American Century

  by George Packer

  What the life of Richard Holbrooke tells us about the decay of Pax Americana.

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• 4/7/19
  

  Venezuela and the Birth of the American Empire

  by Benjamin Welton

  Why is a nearly 200-year old document still relevant today? 

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• 4/7/19
  

  Why the Second Summit Between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un Failed

  by Benjamin R. Young

  Despite more than sixty years since the armistice declaring the end of the Korean War, the U.S and North Korea seemed closer to peace than ever before.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/1/19
  

  The toxic legacy of the Korean War

  by Mary L. Dudziak

  The conflict upended the constitutional balance. It has been cited by presidents ever since.

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• 3/3/19
  

  Will the U.S. Government Abide by the International Law It Created in Venezuela?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  And how the U.S. government has violated these principles of international law in the past.

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• 2/24/19
  

  What 2020 Presidential Hopefuls Can Learn From Carter, Clinton, and Obama's Foreign Policy

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  It would be wise if the next President of the United States examined the records of accomplishment in foreign policy of the three most recent Democratic Presidents.

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• 2/18/19
  

  Proof that Bombs Can Stop Genocide

  by Rafael Medoff

  If President Roosevelt had heeded the pleas that were made in 1944 to use force against the machinery of genocide, many lives could have been saved.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/14/19
  

  Veni, Vidi, Tweeti (I Came, I Saw, I Tweeted)

  by Tom Engelhardt

  An Obituary for the Republic

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/12/19
  

  The Most Dangerous Weapon Ever Rolls Off the Nuclear Assembly Line

  by James Carroll

  The history behind the latest nuclear weapons. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/10/19
  

  The Iran Revolution at 40: From Theocracy to ‘Normality’

  Forty years ago, Iranians swelled with pride, hope and the expectation of a better future.

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• SOURCE: Lobe Log
  2/11/19
  

  The 1979 Revolution: Unfinished Business In Iran

  by Shervin Malekzadeh

  One thing that must be understood about Iran, about living there, is that the Revolution is never officially discussed as a finished event.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/6/19
  

  How the U.S. Departure From Afghanistan Could Echo Kissinger's Moves in Vietnam

  by David Kaiser

  Neither involvement, in retrospect, was ever likely to have succeeded, because the political forces the U.S. chose to support were too weak to deal with an armed opposition supported from a neighboring territory.