Air Force – Vast, trackless, and ungoverned, Africaís sprawling desert is now a magnet for terrorists.
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Naval War College Review – The strains in the transatlantic relationship from disagreement about the authorization and justification for the Iraq war arise from failure of national governments to balance the moral, legal, and political elements of which motives in international politics are invariably a mixture. In the 1999 Kosovo intervention, all three imperatives were satisfied; how can such consensus be reached in the future?
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Parameters – Understanding the changes and challenges within Europe could help Americans respond to the changes and challenges facing the transatlantic community.
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Foreign Affairs – The Bush administration has waged an aggressive war against terrorists abroad, but it has neglected to protect the homeland, even though Americans in the United States are the ones most vulnerable to future attacks. The government must do more to safeguard critical U.S. infrastructure and mobilize the American public to help. For starters, it should create a semi-independent federal agency tapping into private resources that would develop and enforce security standards.
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Parameters – A look at the Kurds role in the future of Iraq.
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New Yorker – Since 1965, life expectancy for Russian men has decreased by nearly six years. And now there is AIDS. The military implications for Russia are enormous.
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Parameters – A look at the past Canadian martial decline, and what that may bode for the future.
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New Yorker – Is energy independence an impossible goal?
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Foreign Affairs – The southern Andes, long known for social volatility and economic disarray, is on the verge of chaos. This need not be cause for fatalism, however. By reengaging with the region, Washington could help turn the political crises plaguing Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia into opportunities for change.
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Foriegn Affairs – In The Missing Peace, Dennis Ross provides a fair and clear-headed overview of almost ten years of Middle East peacemaking. Although he finds plenty of blame to spread around, he sees one man as the ultimate impediment: Yasir Arafat.
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Foreign Affairs – Economic journalist Martin Wolf adds sharp insights to the trade-liberalization debate and scores a major victory against critics of globalization.
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Defense and the National Interest – Is the price of oil going to be permanently increased? And how is the insurgency in Iraq contributing to this. An interesting followup to the prior piece from Defense and the National Interest on how the Iraqi insurgents are targeting Iraq’s oil infrastructure???
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Foreign Affairs – An insiders’ view of the deal struck with North Korea in 1994 and a core lesson for the Bush administration: there’s no substitute for negotiation.
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The New Yorker – A look at the civil war in Sudan.
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Foreign Affairs – Global power shifts happen rarely and are even less often peaceful. Washington must take heed: Asia is rising fast, with its growing economic power translating into political and military strength. The West must adapt — or be left behind.
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Thomas P.M. Barnett – Thomas Barnett defines system perturbations – how small triggers can have large effects.
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Defense and the National Interest – Martin Van Creveld on how The State, which since the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) has been the most important and most characteristic of all modern institutions, is dying.
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The Atlantic – PJ O’Rourke interviews Secretary of State Colin Powell. A fascinating insight into how Powell views the world as it relates to the US.
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Defense and the National Interest – Martin Van Creveld with some reflections on the future of war.
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New Yorker – In Mubarak’s Egypt, democracy is an idea whose time has not come.
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Parameters – A possible future for the alliance between Japan and the US.
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Defense and the National Interest – William Lind asks if there will be a pre-emptive strike against Iran’s nascent nuclear capabilities before the US presidential election.
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Wall Street Journal – Niall Ferguson on how without American hegemony the world would likely return to the dark ages.
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