international relations 
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SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
10/13/19
American Brexit
by Tom Engelhardt
It’s Not Just Britain Headed for the Subbasement of Imperial History.
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SOURCE: Australian Outlook
10/4/19
Israel’s Fractured Democracy And Its Repercussions
by Alon Ben-Meir
A look at Israeli history and its latest headlines.
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SOURCE: Chris Riback's Conversations
10/4/19
Isaac Stone Fish: Where Do US-China Relations Go Next?
by Chris Riback
As the 2020 campaign heats up, several key questions will be asked and debated, including: How did we get here – and where do China and US-China relations go next?
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SOURCE: CBS Minnesota
10/1/19
What’s The History Behind U.S. Relations With Ukraine?
For the past week and half, Ukraine has been all over the airwaves. The eastern European county has become the center of an American political scandal.
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9/29/19
Betrayal in Berlin: Soviet Disinformation and the Berlin Crisis
by Steve Vogel
While Russian bots and fake Facebook accounts are relatively new, efforts to undercut Western values and democracy and sow division among allies have long been part of the playbook for Russian and Soviet intelligence.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/26/19
President Trump’s Ukraine call and the dangers of personal diplomacy
by Tizoc Chavez
There are no systemic constraints on how presidents engage with their foreign counterparts.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/23/19
Why nuclear diplomacy needs more women
by Elena Souris
Historically, a homogenous group of policymakers make innovation less likely.
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SOURCE: American Diplomacy
Accessed 5/9/19
Preventing an Israeli-Iran War
by Alon Ben-Meir
The EU is in a unique position to prevent the outbreak of a war between Israel and Iran that could engulf the Middle East in a war that no one can win.
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SOURCE: BBC News
4/20/19
Agent Orange: US to clean up toxic Vietnam War air base
Agent Orange was a defoliant sprayed by US forces to destroy jungles and uncover the enemy's hiding places.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/17/19
Why President Trump’s hard-line approach to Cuba is a mistake
by John Ermer
It opens the door to increased Russian influence on the island.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
Accessed 4/2/19
How the U.S.-Russian Relationship Went Bad
by William J. Burns
An American diplomat tells the inside story of Yeltsin, Putin, and opportunities lost.
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3/17/19
The Death of Appeasement: the 80th Anniversary of the Invasion of Prague
by Yoav J. Tenembaum
March 1939 was the real turning point in international relations. September 1939 was to be the climax.
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SOURCE: NYT
5-19-13
Kenneth Waltz, international relations theory giant, dies at 88
Kenneth N. Waltz, a pre-eminent thinker on international relations who was known for his contrarian, debate-provoking ideas, not least his view that stability in the Middle East might be better served if Iran had a nuclear weapon, died on May 12 in Manhattan. He was 88.The cause was complications from pneumonia, said Columbia University, where Mr. Waltz was a senior research scholar.Leslie H. Gelb, emeritus president of the Council on Foreign Relations, characterized Mr. Waltz as one of five “giants” who shaped the study of international relations as a discrete discipline, the others being Hans Morgenthau, Henry A. Kissinger, Samuel P. Huntington and Zbigniew Brzezinski.The field developed in the 1950s, when the experiences of two world wars and the beginning of the cold war drove scholars to try to explain more precisely how nations interacted. The goal was to build a conceptual framework on which international politics could be analyzed, something earlier courses on military and diplomatic history had not offered....
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