foreign policy

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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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• 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.