The Case for Restraint
November 06, 2007
Barry Posen takes to the pages of The American Interest to make the case for a new foreign policy that takes account of U.S. strength and weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The results: a strategy of restraint.
The article, followed by more than a dozen responses, can be found here:
http://www.the-american-interest.com/ai2/article.cfm?Id=331&MId=16
Barry R. Posen is Ford International Professor of Political Science and director of the security studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy.
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Picking Up after Failed War on Terror
Boston University Professor Andrew Bacevich levels a devastating critique of the Bush administration's strategy in the so-called war on terror.
The article was published in the Los Angeles Times (11/6/07) and is available in its entirety online:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-bacevich6nov06,0,7058482.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail
Andrew J. Bacevich is a professor of history and international relations at Boston University and a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy.
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After Democracy 11.26.07
Featuring the author Christopher J. Coyne, Assistant Professor of Economics, West Virginia University, with comments by Jack Goldstone, Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Jr. Professor and Eminent Scholar, George Mason School of Public Policy, and Tamara Cofman Wittes, Senior Fellow, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, The Brookings Institution. Moderated by Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and a founding member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy.
The United States has attempted to export liberal democratic institutions through military occupation and reconstruction throughout its history, with mixed results. For every West Germany or Japan, there is a Cuba, Haiti, Somalia, or Vietnam. Why does liberal democracy take hold in some countries but not in others? Why do we observe such different outcomes in military interventions? Do efforts to export democracy help more than they hurt? In After War, Christopher Coyne addresses these and other questions by examining the mechanisms and institutions that contribute to the success of reconstruction programs by creating incentives for sustained cooperation.
To learn more or to register visit:
http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=4115
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Betting on the Wrong Donkey
November 05, 2007
Christopher Preble reviews Kurt Campbell and Michael O'Hanlon's Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security.
The review appears in the November/December 2007 issue of The National Interest, and is available in its entirety online here:
http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=15996
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