foreign policy

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  7/2/2020
  

  Democrats May Beat Trump in November and Still not Learn the Most Important Lesson from his Presidency

  by Daniel Bessner

  Democrats must not just defeat Trump; they must commit to fighting a culture of elite impunity that has enabled the rise of Trump and an unaccountable Republican Party. 

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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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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/10/2020
  

  Can the Democrats Avoid Trump’s China Trap?

  by Rachel Esplin Odell and Stephen Wertheim

  We stand on the brink of an even more destructive and less justifiable mistake than the post-Sept. 11 crusade.

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• SOURCE: North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
  4/30/2020
  

  A History of Inconvenient Allies and Convenient Enemies

  by Alexander Aviña

  The history of American alliances abroad doesn't make sense as a drug control strategy, but is consistent with a strategy of invoking the war on drugs to punish governments that resist U.S. domination.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  4/10/2020
  

  A New Front for Nationalism: The Global Battle Against a Virus

  Every country needs the same lifesaving tools. But a zero-sum mind-set among world leaders is jeopardizing access for all.

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• 4/12/2020
  

  How Will History Judge Trump’s Foreign Policy?

  by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

  Our 46th president, whenever he or she arrives, will confront a changed world, partly because of COVID, but also because of the effects of Trump’s personality and policies.

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• 4/5/2020
  

  What the "Primacy" Debate in Foreign Policy Gets Wrong

  by Ken Weisbrode

  Yes, let’s end “endless wars” and enhance peaceable diplomacy around the world. But let us not at the same time renounce by redefinition America’s international responsibilities and its capacity for wise, moral leadership.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  3/26/2020
  

  Sanctions Are Inhumane—Now, and Always

  by Aslı U. Bâli, Aziz Rana

  In a world imperiled by global pandemic, it is long past time to put an end to sanctions—including new ones against Iran—and to reconstruct U.S. foreign policy around international solidarity.

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  2/11/20
  

  America held hostage

  by David Marks

  Forty years after the Iran hostage crisis, its impact endures.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2/9/20
  

  World War III’s Newest Battlefield

  by Michael T. Klare

  U.S. Troops Head for the Far North

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/5/20
  

  How the US repeatedly failed to support reform movements in Iran

  by Pardis Mahdavi

  For 40 years, the relationship between the U.S. and Iran has been marked by disagreement – but also by a series of missed opportunities.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  1/23/20
  

  The American Chaos Machine: U.S. Foreign Policy Goes Off the Rails

  by Danny Sjursen

  President Trump’s rash, risky, and repugnant decision to assassinate Iranian Major General Qassem Suleimani on the sovereign soil of Iraq was only the latest version of what has proven to be a pervasive state of affairs.

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• SOURCE: LawFare
  1/21/20
  

  Why Haven't the Afghanistan Papers Gotten More Attention?

  by David V. Gioe

  The Afghanistan Papers and the Perils of Historical Analogy

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  1/13/20
  

  Assassination as Cure: Disease Metaphors and Foreign Policy

  by Sarah Swedberg

  Kinzinger’s words fit within a long historical tradition of badly used disease metaphors that often accompany bad outcomes.

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• 1/12/20
  

  Do Morals Matter in Foreign Policy?

  by Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

  Examining 14 presidencies since 1945 shows that a radically skeptical view of morality is bad history. Morals did matter.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/7/20
  

  Why Did the U.S. Kill Suleimani?

  by Elizabeth Cobbs and Kimberly C. Field

  The attack illustrates America’s lack of a clear grand strategy — and why we need one immediately.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/4/20
  

  Soleimani Assassination Marks 'Peak Hatred' In History Of U.S.-Iran Animosity

  NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Karim Sadjadpour, a senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about how tensions between the United States and Iran got to where they are.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  12/19/19
  

  How War Targets the Young

  by Andrea Mazzarino

  War on Terror, War on Education

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• 12/19/19
  

  2020 Will Be More Turbulent Than 2019, Unless…

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  The year 2020 will most likely be as turbulent if not more so than 2019 due mainly to the lack of American leadership and the rush of other powers, especially Russia, China, and to a lesser extent Turkey and Iran, to fill the vacuum the US is leaving behind.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  12/15/19
  

  Lessons From Battling the Pentagon for Four Decades

  by William D. Hartung

  The Stubborn Persistence of the Military-Industrial State