international relations

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  11/21/2022
  

  The US-China Relationship: Why It Collapsed, How it Can Be Fixed

  by Jake Werner

  The split between the US and China precedes the leadership of Biden, Trump, and Xi, as politicians in both countries have increasingly come to see the others' prosperity as a threat. Solving the split requires looking to the problems of global market capitalism that exacerbated the rift. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  10/27/2022
  

  Small Nations, Big Feelings: America's Favored European Nations Before Ukraine

  by Madelyn Lugli

  "Feeling patriotism for a foreign country is, when you think about it, odd."

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  10/15/2022
  

  Ukraine Isn't Munich, Berlin, or Vietnam: The Limits and Dangers of Historical Analogies

  by Christopher David LaRoche

  Analogies are vital cognitive shortcuts that enable us to comprehend complexity. But their usefulness means we risk transposing biases and fallacies about the past onto how we understand the present. 

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• 10/16/2022
  

  Bye Bye, World: Will Humanity Continue to Tolerate the Risk of Nuclear War?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Since the dawn of the nuclear age, broad-based disarmament movements have demanded a world without the threat of nuclear annihilation. Will the governments of powerful nations lead the way to realizing that goal? 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  10/11/2022
  

  Don't Forget about the Nuclear Danger over Taiwan

  by Michael Klare

  Ukraine isn't the only potential nuclear flashpoint. The United States and China need to begin negotiations to limit the risk around the conflict over Taiwan's status. 

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• 10/9/2022
  

  There Are Alternatives to War

  by Lawrence Wittner

  The Ukraine war points to the urgent need to reform the United Nations so it can serve as a true global organization with the power to ensure peace. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/21/2022
  

  Biden's Taiwan Rhetoric Risks Antagonizing China For No Gain

  by Stephen Wertheim

  The United States' "One China" policy is ambivalent, awkward and dissatisfying. But it's served to prevent a destructive war for decades. Biden's recent comments threaten to destabilize the arrangement. 

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• SOURCE: War on the Rocks
  9/16/2022
  

  How Ideology Shapes America's View on the World

  Christopher McKnight Nichols, Raymond Haberski, Jr., and Emily Conroy-Krutz join host Jeremi Suri of the University of Texas, Austin to discuss what ideology is, and explore the ways in which it has shaped, and continues to shape, America’s role in the world.

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• 9/18/2022
  

  Ukraine Shows the Need to Break the Cycle of National Insecurity

  by Roger Peace

  It doesn't excuse Russian aggression against Ukraine to recognize that the United States has fumbled the opportunity to forge a global order based on cooperative and mutual security in the years since the end of the Cold War. 

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  9/12/2022
  

  49 Years Later, Nixon's Knowledge of Pinochet Coup Remains Secret

  It is beyond time for the Biden Administration to declassify presidential records related to American operations in Chile around the overthrow of democratically elected President Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973.  

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  9/5/2022
  

  W.E.B. DuBois's Insight on Race and the Global American Century

  by Zachariah Mampilly

  Both racism and anticommunism helped to minimize the impact of DuBois's thought on international relations, contributing to significant blind spots in the liberal international order. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/30/2022
  

  Sending Dictators to a Luxury Retirement? More Practical Than You Think

  by Brian Klaas

  From a realistic point of view, approaching dictators in crisis with an offer of a safe and luxurious retirement is the best way to spare their countries the violence and economic pillaging that accompany the bitter end of an autocratic regime. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/1/2022
  

  Will Putin's Invasion Derail the Quincy Institute?

  The think tank was founded to counter what its leaders saw as a bipartisan alliance of neoconservatives and liberal interventionists that pushed the United States toward military intervention as the solution to foreign policy problems. How will the Ukraine war affect its credibility in policy circles? 

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• 9/4/2022
  

  What I Learned About Governments from Researching Classified Documents

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Historians who have conducted research in classified materials understand how seriously governments take secrecy and how secrecy can conceal malfeasance or anti-democratic action. 

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• 8/21/2022
  

  No Time Like the Present for a Visit to Kyiv

  by Andreas Umland

  As the situation in Western and Central Ukraine has for now stabilized, a trip to Kyiv can provide those interested in international affairs with a unique opportunity to observe world history in the making.

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• 8/7/2022
  

  Why Should War Criminals Operate with Impunity?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  When major military powers like Russia, China and the United States withhold participation in the International Criminal Court, it allows war criminals to do as they please. Leading a more stable international order means joining fully with the ICC. 

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• SOURCE: Quincy Institute
  8/1/2022
  

  Post-Cold War Interventions show Military Restraint is the Key to Protecting Human Rights

  by Aslı Bâli

  America's foreign policy establishment must "right-size" its expectations about the ability of US military power to secure desired outcomes, and prepare to embrace non-coercive approaches to human rights crises that will be precipitated by climate change and food crises. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  7/20/2022
  

  Can We Have International Cooperation Without Domination?

  by Jamie Martin

  There is no golden age of international relations free of the coercive power of capital. A different version of internationalism is needed. 

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• 7/8/2022
  

  Is Biden Prepared to Adopt a Truly Progressive Foreign Policy?

  by Leon Fink

  Protecting the so-called Liberal World Order these days puts great emphasis on preserving “order” but very little on what “liberal” can or should mean. The administration risks fumbling an opportunity to connect with new foreign leadership on labor, environment, immigration, and other issues beyond security and the drug war.

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• 7/8/2022
  

  The Rising "Pink Tide" in Latin America Shows the Need for US Policy to Adapt

  by Aileen T. Teague

  Colombia has historically been a conservative firewall in Latin America, anchoring American policy on the hemispheric drug war and development policy. The election of that nation's first leftist leader, along with the rise of Chinese influence, signals the need for American policy to change.