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Foreign Policy: What Happens If Obama Is Toast? - NPR

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President Barack Obama delivers a speech at a Labor Day event on Sept. 5, 2011 in Detroit, Michigan. The President discussed his efforts to create jobs and strengthen the economy. President Barack Obama delivers a speech at a Labor ...

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Stephen M. Walt: What I told my APSA panel - Foreign Policy (blog)

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I'm in Seattle at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, which is why I haven't been blogging. The roundtable on John Ikenberry's book Liberal Leviathan went well, I thought, and John was a good sport for allowing four ...

Stephen M. Walt: Plans for the week - Foreign Policy

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I'm on a roundtable discussion of John Ikenberry's new book Liberal Leviathan, and plan to offer some friendly but provocative points about the book. I'm also running for the APSA Council, as part of a broad effort to democratize its governance ...

Learning the right lessons from Libya - Foreign Policy (blog)

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[image error] Learning the right lessons from Libya
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And don't be surprised if a few countries conclude that the real lesson of the Libyan intervention was that Muammar al-Qaddafi blundered when he agreed to end his WMD programs and open up to the outside world. I'm glad he did, but I suspect that ...

From Foreign Policy: Who's Paying for All That Islamophobic Paranoia? - Al-Arabiya

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[image error] From Foreign Policy: Who's Paying for All That Islamophobic Paranoia?
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One of the distinctive features of American democracy is the permeability of our political institutions. It's an incredibly wide-open system, given First Amendment freedoms, the flood of money that corrupts the electoral process, ...

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Stephen M. Walt: Fear, Incorporated: Who's paying for all that Islamophobic ... - Foreign Policy (blog)

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One of the distinctive features of American democracy is the permeability of our political institutions. It's an incredibly wide-open system, given First Amendment freedoms, the flood of money that corrupts the electoral process, and a wide array of ...

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Europe and Asia in the balance: A response to Richard Rosecrance - Foreign Policy (blog)

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Over at the Belfer Center's "Power and Policy" blog (a relatively new website which is well worth perusing), my colleague Dick Rosecrance has taken issue with my earlier post on Europe, the European Union, and transatlantic relations. Dick is a friend, ...

Why the Libyan revolution may not matter very much - Foreign Policy

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[image error] Why the Libyan revolution may not matter very much
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All eyes have been riveted on the endgame in Libya, and I'm as guilty as anyone in that regard. Qaddafi was hard to ignore because his behavior was often peculiar and because he caused a lot of trouble over 40 years of rule. A violent uprising in which ...

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Ready for more Mideast violence? - TheStar.com.jo

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If memory serves, one of the lessons of Roger Fisher's little book International Conflict for Beginners was "settle conflicts early and often". This isn't always possible, of course, but his basic insight was that unresolved ...

Avoiding a 'Mission Accomplished' moment in Libya - Foreign Policy (blog)

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[image error] Avoiding a 'Mission Accomplished' moment in Libya
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It's been obvious for awhile now that Muammar al-Qaddafi's days as Libya's leader were numbered, and the only question was how many people would be killed before his government finally collapsed. Assuming early reports are right, the good news is that ...

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