foreign policy 
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11/26/19
Legalize Torture? It’s Tortured Logic
by Sam Ben-Meir
The Report is largely about another single-minded individual, Daniel J. Jones (Adam Driver), lead investigator of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who spent five arduous years doggedly uncovering the CIA’s suspect detention and interrogation program following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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11/24/19
The Mysterious Assassination That Unleashed Jihadism
by Thomas Hegghammer
The story of Abdallah Azzam suggests that a root cause of modern jihadism was the collapse in respect for religious authority among young Islamists in the late 1980s.
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11/3/19
A History of Why Trump Abandoned the Kurds
by Ed Simon
That the Kurds are associated with socialism, anti-fascism, and radical democracy isn’t incidental to Trump’s abandonment of them – it’s the reason why he has.
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SOURCE: Politico
10/26/19
Russia’s Long and Mostly Unsuccessful History of Election Interference
by Casey Michel
Trump’s willingness to allow foreign governments to influence American elections is historically unprecedented. Just how unprecedented becomes clear when you look back at the long history of attempts by foreign powers (almost always Russia) to tip an outcome to their advantage.
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10/20/19
The Greatest Danger in the Kurdish Crisis
by Zaman Stanizai
If the heavy-handedness of the Turkish military is any indication, Erdogan seems to be bent on the ethnic cleansing and relocation of Kurds in northern Syria and resettling their lands along the Turkish border with Arab Syrian refugees currently residing in Turkey.
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10/6/19
The Middle East: Must We Fight Forever?
by Harlow Giles Unger
Almost 235 years have elapsed since John Adams warned against America’s first military involvement in the Arab world. The United States today seems well on the way to fulfilling Adams’s prophecy that we will “fight them forever.”
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9/29/19
Impeachment—a Tool to Prevent War?
by Paul W. Lovinger
We should only impeach the President if he starts a new war or uses a nuke.
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9/1/19
The Latest G-7 Summit Showcases Trump's Foreign Policy Failures
by Walter L. Hixson
There is still time for Trump to reverse his legacy of diplomatic ineptitude. If he fails to do so he may well go down in history as the most feckless foreign policy president in American history.
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SOURCE: Dallas Morning News
8/25/19
Can you name the Republican president who risked his career for Mexico?
by Michael Hogan
A failure to teach the full and complex 19th century history of the U.S. and Mexico in U.S. classrooms has resulted in ignorance that helps feed anti-Mexico prejudice.
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8/18/19
Many Historians Got It Wrong on Obama's Foreign Policy
by Jeremy Kuzmarov
Many historians appear to have been so mesmerized by Obama’s charisma and progressive domestic policies that they cannot properly criticize the foreign policy of Obama.
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SOURCE: The Daily Beast
7/9/19
The War Against Endless War Heats Up With Koch-Soros Salvo
by Ronald Radosh
The otherwise ideologically opposed billionaires are the latest unlikely pair to find common ground in the idea that American power is the root cause of the world’s problems.
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SOURCE: Politico Magazine
7/5/19
How Fake News Could Lead to Real War
by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon
We think of false information as a domestic problem. It’s much more dangerous than that.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
7/9/19
The Riptide of American Militarism
by William Astore
As Americans wrestled with the possibility of finding themselves in a second looming world war, what advice did the CFR have for then-President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940?
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7/7/19
The End of Humanitarian Intervention? A Debate at the Oxford Union With Historian David Gibbs and Michael Chertoff
by David N. Gibbs
Michael Chertoff -- former Secretary of Homeland Security during the presidency of George W. Bush and coauthor of the USA Patriot Act – defended humanitarian intervention; Gibbs argued against the practice.
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6/30/19
Presidential War Powers and Bill Clinton's Battles
by Paul W. Lovinger
Reviewing the 1999 attack on Yugoslavia and other belligerent acts: a study of arbitrary power and its supremacy over the Constitution in modern times.
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
6/16/19
Trump, America, and the Decline of Empires
by Tom Engelhardt
Trump is not an isolated phenomenon--historically or globally.
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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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