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Become a data point! - Foreign Policy

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A graduate student at UC-Berkeley, Allan Dafoe, has asked for my help in a project he's conducting (in collaboration with researchers at Uppsala University) on the impact of perception in international crises. To be more precise, what he really wants ...

Breivik's Warped Worldview - Foreign Policy

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I was in New York City the past two days and left my laptop in my bag for a change. The main purpose of the trip was to pick up my daughter (who was flying home from a language immersion program), but we did manage to sneak in a benefit concert at the ...

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The Budget Battle and America's Reputation | Stephen M. Walt - Foreign Policy

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Remember the 1990s? Back in those days, the US was recognized as the world's sole superpower. Our economy was booming, we ended the decade with a budget surplus, and there was a widespread sense around the world that the United States really had its ...

Missing the (real) warning signs - Foreign Policy

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A quick footnote to the tragic events in Norway. Although as Greenwald points out, various unreliable sources were quick to assume that the attacks was the work of al Qaeda or some other Islamist group, there was in fact good reason to suspect from the ...

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Stephen M. Walt: Missing the (real) warning signs - Foreign Policy

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A quick footnote to the tragic events in Norway. Although as Greenwald points out, various unreliable sources were quick to assume that the attacks was the work of al Qaeda or some other Islamist group, there was in fact good reason to suspect from the ...

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Stephen M. Walt: Exploiting a tragedy (updated) - Foreign Policy

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As soon as the shocking and tragic news from Norway hit the airwaves, it was entirely predictable that various right-wing Islamophobes would type first and think later. They were so eager to exploit the tragedy to peddle their pre-existing policy ...

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International affairs and the 'public sphere' - Foreign Policy

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What role should academics play in public discourse about major social issues, including foreign policy? I've taken up this issue in the past, as has FP colleague Dan Drezner. The Social Science Research Council has a continuing project on the topic of ...

Is the BBC Just Like NewsCorp? - Foreign Policy

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Stephen Walt is surely right that there need to be more restrictions on the concentration of media ownership and of cross-media ownership. Some good pieces on this are from the LRB, James Murdoch has been accused of misleading the parliamentary select ...

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Stephen M. Walt: Is the BBC Just Like NewsCorp? - Foreign Policy

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Andrew Sullivan takes me mildly to task for my comments on the Murdoch/NewsCorp scandal, arguing that NewsCorp never had a monopoly on the news in Britain and pointing out that I failed to mention the BBC, which is the world's largest news organization ...

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Who's paying? - Foreign Policy

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Walt mentioned that hardline Zionists were among the financial backers. That isn't the same thing as the Israeli government. Indeed, the Israeli position on Palestine set aside, the Israeli government actually has a good deal of trouble with Zionists. ...

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