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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/3/2020
Brian Urquhart, a Foundational Leader at the United Nations, Dies at 101
"In the mid-1950s, as the lone official in Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold’s inner circle with military experience, Mr. Urquhart helped invent the practice of U.N. peacekeeping through the establishment of the U.N. Emergency Force."
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SOURCE: New York Times
10/31/2020
George Shultz Speaks Out for Renewing U.S. Leadership Overseas
The long-serving Secretary of State's new book laments the unwillingness of current leadership to embrace the international cooperation and diplomacy needed to solve the world's largest problems.
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SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
8/11/2020
Present at the Disruption: How Trump Unmade U.S. Foreign Policy
by Richard Haass
Disruption is not necessarily a bad thing. But Donald Trump's foreign policy has disrupted existing arrangements without viable substitutes and made the United States and the world worse off.
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SOURCE: Salon
8/17/2020
Trump's Dodgy Israel-UAE "Peace Deal" Smells like the Work of Henry Kissinger
by Jim Sleeper
Is the Israel-UAE agreement to open diplomatic relations an effort to marginalize the Palestinian Authority? Jim Sleeper argues it's the sort of thing Henry Kissinger would do.
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SOURCE: CNN
8/4/2020
German Ambassador Pick Disparaged Immigrants and Refugees, Called for Martial Law at US-Mexico Border
Douglas Macgregor described the German cultural concept of "Vergangenheitsbewältigung," which seeks to "cope with the past" and confront the atrocities the country committed in World War II, as a "sick mentality" and he downplayed the country's Nazi history.
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SOURCE: Global Policy
7/16/2020
“A Tragic Illusion” - Did the Atom Bomb Make the United Nations Obsolete Three Weeks After its Birth?
by Tad Daley
President Harry Truman's knowledge of the imminent success of the Manhattan Project led him to fear that the United Nations' charter was inadequate to the task of preventing war; the Cold War meant that a better form of internationalism was never achieved.
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4/19/2020
American Women at the UN: From Breakthrough to Dumping Ground?
by Philip Nash
More women belong in senior foreign and national security policy positions—at State, Defense, the National Security Council, and beyond—and not just at the United Nations.
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SOURCE: New York Times
4/10/2020
William R. Polk, Historian and Middle East Envoy, Dies at 91
Over six decades, Mr. Polk delved into multiple careers, working in and out of government, writing, co-writing or editing more than two-dozen books and traveling the globe, often to hot spots.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/26/19
President Trump’s Ukraine call and the dangers of personal diplomacy
by Tizoc Chavez
There are no systemic constraints on how presidents engage with their foreign counterparts.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/23/19
America’s Secret History in East Asia
by Alexis Dudden
Japan and South Korea are at odds today because Washington has been playing favorites for decades.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/23/19
Why nuclear diplomacy needs more women
by Elena Souris
Historically, a homogenous group of policymakers make innovation less likely.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
3/9/18
Arbitration as a way out of the North Korean crisis
by Ronald Sievert and William Norris
It's worked before.
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5-21-17
We Thought Diplomacy Couldn’t End the War in the Pacific. But We Dropped the Bomb before We Found Out for Sure.
by Peter Van Buren
The lesson we need to learn for 2017.
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SOURCE: London Review of Books
7-14-16
American diplomatic history criticized for its “limited intellectual range"
by Thomas Meaney
Few question that the US should remain the world’s superpower.
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SOURCE: Asia Sentinel
5-13-14
How Ping Pong Changed the World
by Victor Fic
An interview with Nick Griffin about his new book, "Ping Pong Diplomacy."
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3-3-14
Getting Grand Strategy Right
by Hal Brands
Barack Obama dismisses the need for a U.S. grand strategy. This is why he's wrong.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12-14-13
The Great War’s Ominous Echoes
by Margaret MacMillan
Could it happen again?
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SOURCE: National Review
12-5-13
Ignoring History: The Folly of Our Iran Pact
by Victor Davis Hanson
Dictatorships abandon treaties when they become inconvenient.
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10-21-13
Why Things are Looking Good for Israel
by Jonathan (Yoni) Shimshoni and Nimrod Hurvitz
The Arab Spring, Iranian sanctions, the Syrian civil war, and the fall of the Brotherhood in Egypt have all strengthened the Israeli strategic position.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
9-5-13
Credibility is Not a Good Reason to Attack Syria
by Rajan Menon
"Credibility" is what led to Vietnam.
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