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2010/07/222010/07/22

NIGHTWATCH Extracts: US Foreign Policy Confused

Koreas Comment: The White House statement presented the exercises in the context of routine behavior among Allies, timid and defensive. The Defense Department and UN Command statements indicated the exercises are pointed, aggressive and intended to be intimidating. The two statements neutralize each other because reassurance always trumps vigilance. Undermining both statements is the fact …

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2009/12/13

Reference: Foreign Policy in Focus–South Asia

Strategic Focus: South Asia Boats in Bangladesh. Photo credit: Ahron de Leeuw. Home to well over one-fifth of the population, South Asia continues to be a hotbed of conflict and upheaval. Human rights abuses, the war in Afghanistan, and climate change all present critical challenges to the region and to U.S. foreign policy. In our …

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2009/09/162009/09/16

Monograph: The U.S. Intelligence Community and Foreign Policy Getting Analysis Right

This monograph by Dr. Kenneth Lieberthal, a PDF of 81 pages, is just out (September 2009) from the China Center of the Brookings Institute. In its area of specific focus, getting analysis right, it is a solid B+, short of an A because it continues the unilateralist mind-set that eschews both full engagement with the …

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2009/08/312009/08/31

Journal: US Foreign Policy Toward Honduras Uninformed, Intrusive, Embarassing

US prepares further sanctions against Honduras Phi Beta Iota: This borders on infantile idiocy. Honduras has a Supreme Court ruling against the ousted President. What we have here is the US still having a big stick but having lost its mind. The Department of State is either embarrassingly stupid, or so politicized that ideological bullies …

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2009/07/222009/10/24

Journal: Tech ‘has changed foreign policy’

Technology means that foreign policy will never be the same again, the prime minister said at a meeting of leading thinkers in Oxford.

2008/01/192010/01/04

Review: Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change

Too general for modern application, January 19, 2008

2007/11/062009/12/27

Review: A Foreign Policy of Freedom–Peace, Commerce, and Honest Friendship (Paperback)

30 years of speeches, straight common sense November 6, 2007 Ron Paul I would normally give a book like this four stars because it is a collection of speeches entered into the Congressional Record over a 30-year period with no overview. I give it five stars because of the integrity and consistency of the author, …

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