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Across Arab world, Jihadist Rhetoric Not Far from Mainstream

The Hill This week, during my visit to the U.N. General Assembly in New York, a text message from the police lit up my mobile phone — and that of millions of others in the area — warning to...

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Turkey’s views on Russia haven’t changed, but its priorities shifted

bne IntelliNews In the business of political risk and analysis, there is always a danger of seizing upon a single event and extrapolating wildly without a full measure of the circumstances, issues or players. In many ways, the pundit...

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India After Nonalignment

Foreign Affairs Throughout the past several decades, it would have been heresy to suggest that India’s foreign policy was based on anything other than nonalignment. The doctrine, which had its origins in the early Cold War and was based...

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Is Political Islam Compatible with Democracy?

The National Interest At the dawn of the so-called Arab Spring in 2011, diplomats, politicians, and intellectuals debated a fresh question: what role can Islamist political parties play in a fledgling democracy? It wasn’t an esoteric or academic debating...

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Refusing to Nuke First

The Atlantic On September 5, The New York Times reported that the Obama administration is weighing whether to adopt a so-called “no-first-use” nuclear doctrine. This would allow the United States to launch nuclear weapons only if the enemy deployed them...

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How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon, by Rosa Brooks

National ReviewReviewed by FPRI’s Mackubin Thomas Owens How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon, by Rosa Brooks (Simon & Schuster, 448 pp., $29.95) In 1992, an Air Force lieutenant colonel named Charles Dunlap...

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It’s been 15 years since 9/11. How has al-Qaeda changed?

The Washington Post Fifteen years after 9/11, confronting terrorism remains a central American priority. U.S. forces are still deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq; others carry out counterterrorism missions throughout the world. In recent years, opinions about al-Qaeda’s fortunes have...

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Does Free College Threaten Our All-Volunteer Military?

War on the Rocks Throughout the current presidential campaign season, there have been repeated calls for free college.  Channeling a long-held position by Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters, the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton, said that families making under...

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Principle and Prudence: A Foreign Policy of Prudent American Realism

American Greatness President Obama’s foreign policy has been a disaster. The failures are legion: the Russian “reset” that has enabled Vladimir Putin to strut about as a latter-day czar; the reintroduction of Russia into the Middle East; the betrayal...

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A Plan for Protecting Iraq’s Minority Communities