A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Reports and Monographs
A nation must think before it acts.
Special Reports provide in-depth analysis on a particular topic or issue and provide policy recommendations.
Abraham Lincoln: Leadership and Democratic Statesmanship in Wartime
Introduction In his recent study of Abraham Lincoln’s wartime leadership, Tried by War, the eminent historian James McPherson writes that “in the vast literature on the sixteenth president … the amount of attention devoted to his role as commander-in-chief...
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What are We Fighting For? Western Civilization, American Identity, and U.S. Foreign Policy
This January 2009 e-book by James Kurth, FPRI Senior Fellow and Claude Smith Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, discusses the foundations of Western and specifically American civilization, the ideals which make them worth fighting for. The...
Read more »Latin America’s Terrorist and Insurgent Groups: History and Status
As Prof. Alberto Bolívar of the Lima, Peru-based Strategos Institute writes in this May 2006 e-book, the existence of radicalized mass movements in Latin America’s most populous countries remains a matter of some concern, particularly in this volatile region....
Read more »Radical Islam in the Maghreb – 2005
Carlos Echeverría Jesús is professor of international relations at Open University-UNED, Madrid. For additional background, see his earlier “PDF Version of “Radical Islam in the Maghreb” – 2004 (13 pages, 62K)”, Orbis, Spring 2004....
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