USAID Development Assistance Counter Terrorism: A Guide to Programming
Posted on Friday May 6
Below you will find the USAID document that Stacia George thought would provide a helpful background in advance of her May 2022 presentation on counter terrorism. USAID Development Assistance Counter Terrorism: A Guide to Programming. October 2009. This guide discusses the implications for practitioners pursuing development objectives in the context of counter-extremism (CE). Because programming […]
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Understanding Central Asia’s Cautious Approach to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Posted on Friday April 1
By Bruce Pannier, Foreign Policy Research Institute, March 25, 2022 The governments in Central Asia are treading cautiously in their remarks about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Central Asia, too, was part of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, and, when some in Central Asia see the news from Ukraine, they might wonder if they are […]
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Ambassador Laura Kennedy: Article, Podcast, and Video
Posted on Friday April 1
Below you will find an article, podcast, and video that Ambassador Laura Kennedy thought would provide a helpful background on the “Stans” in advance of her April 2022 presentation. Dealing with Kazakhstan’s Nuclear Inheritance, Foreign Service Journal, March 30,2022. Ambassador Kennedy’s book review of Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan gave up the bomb by Togzhan Kassenova. To […]
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Trump and Obama: The odd couple who broke ‘extended deterrence’ for the Indo-Pacific
Posted on Thursday March 3
By David Cooper in The Hill on February 24, 2021 If there is an upside to nuclear weapons it is extended deterrence. This term refers to the “nuclear umbrella” that the United States promises to extend over its closest allies in Asia and Europe to protect against hostile nuclear powers who otherwise might be tempted to […]
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A Nuclear Cruise Missile Could Be Vital For Arms Control And Nonproliferation Efforts
Posted on Thursday March 3
By David Cooper in Breaking Defense on September 7, 2021 A simmering debate over the fate of the new intermediate-range nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N), initiated by the Trump administration, has centered on whether the weapon is needed to strengthen deterrence in the face of escalating geostrategic competition with China and Russia. Because then-candidate Joe […]
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Turning Away from the Middle East
Posted on Wednesday February 16
By Steven Simon in the New York Review of Books, April 8, 2021. The Biden administration will not have a lot of time for the Middle East. Its foreign policy agenda will more likely be shaped by the looming question of how to come to grips with Xi Jinping’s China. To read the entire essay, […]
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Why is the U.S. Military Occupying Bases Across Africa?
Posted on Friday January 21
By Eric Schewe in JSTOR Daily, April 11, 2018 In recent months, many Americans have been surprised to learn that the U.S. has an extensive military presence in Africa. In recent months, many Americans have been surprised to learn that the U.S. has an extensive military presence in Africa. An intelligence snafu over fitness tracker […]
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Does US military training incubate coups in Africa? The jury is still out.
Posted on Thursday January 20
By Lee J. M. Seymour and Theodore McLauchlin in The Conversation, September 28, 2020 Military officers overthrew Mali’s government in a coup d’état on August 18, 2020. Among the more worrying aspects of the coup is the fact that a number of the officers involved had received foreign training, most notably from the United States. In fact, this was the second […]
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Responsible Statecraft Requires Remaking America’s Foreign Relations Tool Kit
Posted on Tuesday December 14
By Gordon Adams in Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, February 25, 2021 American statecraft is in urgent need of change. The United States faces a more imposing set of international realities and challenges than any it has faced for the past 70 years, and its foreign policy institutions are poorly prepared to deal with them. […]
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Fixing US diplomacy will take more than re-arranging deck chairs – more like a new ship
Posted on Wednesday December 8
By Gordon Adams in Responsible Statecraft, February 25, 2021 President Joe Biden has now stated several times that America is “back at the table” internationally, and will be “leading with diplomacy” in an effort to “earn back our position of trusted leadership.” But our civilian institutions are not ready for the challenge of demilitarizing U.S. foreign […]
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A new world is dawning, and the US will no longer lead it
Posted on Wednesday December 8
By Gordon Adams in The Conversation, June 26, 2018 From pulling out of treaties to denigrating allies to starting trade wars, the impulsive actions of President Donald Trump are upending the international order that has been in place since the end of World War II. But even before Trump’s belligerent foreign policy positions, America had […]
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America’s Polarization Is a Foreign Policy Problem, Too
Posted on Thursday November 4
By Stephen M. Walt in Foreign Policy, March 11, 2019 Partisan Politics, one sometimes still hears, are supposed to “stop at the water’s edge.” Domestic political quarrels might be intense and occasionally personal, but Americans are supposed to temper their disagreements and link arms when dealing with the outside world. This notion was always a […]
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A 9/11 widower refuses to succumb to hate. Can the country do the same?
Posted on Thursday September 30
By Mitchell Zuckoff, Globe Correspondent, The Boston Globe, September 4, 2021 I’ve been living with 9/11 since the day itself, when I wrote the lead story about the attacks for this newspaper with help from numerous colleagues. Later, for a book, I spent years listening to, and sometimes crying with, hundreds of survivors, victims’ family […]
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Three Articles/Videos by Sean McFate
Posted on Wednesday September 1
Below are links to two articles and one video by Sean McFate, the Forum speaker for September 2021: Shifting the blame: How the Pentagon lost Afghanistan, The Hill, August 17, 2021. How could Afghan security forces wholesale collapse after $83 billion have been spent to train and equip them? To find out click here. What […]
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