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8/29/2021
Climate, Peace, and Health Require International Solidarity. Is it Possible to Build It?
by Lawrence Wittner
"Although there are no guarantees that social movements and enhanced global governance will transform our divided, problem-ridden world, they should provide us with at least a measure of hope that, someday, human solidarity will prevail."
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SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
6/8/2021
For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality (Washington History Seminar, June 14)
In a bold rewriting of twentieth-century political history, Dorothy Sue Cobble reclaims social democracy as a central thread of American feminism and shows how global forces, peoples, and ideas shaped US politics and social movements.
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SOURCE: Keeping Democracy Alive
5/10/2021
Peace Was on the Floor in 1916-17, but Wilson Failed to Pick it Up
by Burt Cohen
Burt Cohen discusses Philip Zelikow's book which argues that diplomatic failures by the great powers extended the first world war by two years and contributed to the catastrophes of fascism and Stalinism.
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3/21/2021
Has the One World Idea's Time Come Again?
by Samuel Zipp
Can remembering the “one world” vision for America’s global role—largely forgotten today – help us get beyond both America First and the “liberal world order”?
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SOURCE: National History Center
9/21/2020
TODAY: Eric Weitz "A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States"
The National History Center's Washington History Seminar features Eric Weitz's "A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States." Monday, September 21 at 4:30 Eastern.
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SOURCE: War on the Rocks
9/8/2020
In 2020, Eisenhower is a Lantern in the Dark
by Derek Chollet
The opening of a monument to Ike in Washington is occasion to remember his commitment to the idea that American national strength depended on internal harmony and justice.
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6/7/2020
Turning Points and Roads Not Taken in American Foreign Policy
by Roger Peace
The end of the Cold War presented an opportunity for American foreign policy to turn away from militarism and toward cooperative development. The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest consequence of failing to secure a "peace dividend."
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4/5/2020
The Coronavirus Pandemic, Like Other Global Catastrophes, Reveals the Limitations of Nationalism
by Lawrence Wittner
The coronavirus disaster, like the other current catastrophes ravaging the planet, might finally convince people around the globe that transcending nationalism is central to survival.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/27/2020
Coronavirus Shows the Perils and Promise of Globalization
by Samuel Zipp
During the first age of “America First” in the 1940s, Wendell Wilkie's campaign challenged Americans to confront a discomfiting idea: Our lives depend on the well-being of many millions across the world.
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9/22/19
The Two Internationalisms
by Lawrence Wittner
The right has long criticized internationalism, but why is the left doing so today?
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SOURCE: Dissent Magazine
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The Specter of Liberal Internationalism
by Daniel Bessner
Is the Brookings approach to the world realistic?
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The Syrian Problem -- and an International Solution
by Lawrence S. Wittner
Look to the United Nations. It's the legal thing to do.
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