foreign policy

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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.

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• 2/10/19
  

  The American Tourist in Paris: A Retrospective

  by Lauren Jannette

  Although no longer breaking furniture, running out on checks, and throwing racist fits about the evening’s entertainment, Americans remain an integral part of Paris’s continued debates over the benefits and detriments of being one of the world’s largest tourists destinations. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/7/29
  

  The mistake NATO was formed to correct — and how President Trump is repeating it

  by Gregory Mitrovich

  Allies abandoned one another in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1940s, they paid the price.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/5/19
  

  Lost in TrumpWorld

  by Andrew Bacevich

  War in the Shadows (of You Know Who)

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  2/4/19
  

  Don’t Let Democrats Become the Party of War

  by Trita Paris and Stephen Wertheim

  The gambit to out-hawk Trump is a dangerous one.

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• 2/5/19
  

  Don’t Invade Venezuela

  by Alan McPherson

  Contrary to what most believe, a military intervention in South America would be unprecedented

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• 2/2/19
  

  Is This the Right Way to End a War?

  Many experts worry that the U.S. is repeating the mistakes of Vietnam in Afghanistan.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/29/19
  

  Our Man From Boeing

  by Mandy Smithberger and William D. Hartung

  Has the Arms Industry Captured Trump’s Pentagon?