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The Shape of Things to Come: War before Peace in the Mideast

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Egypt, Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Bush Administration, Middle East, Larry David, Reality-Based Community, President Barack Obama, Realpolitik, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Moshe Dayan, Israel, Anwar Sadat, World News
Leon T. Hadar

The current status-quo in the Middle East must be disturbed before conditions are right for the next round of Middle East diplomacy.

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CIA Pays Off Another Afghan Despot, Hopes for the Best

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghan Warlords, Realpolitik, Afghanistan, Human Rights, Cia, Human Rights Watch, Warlords, Ahmed Wali Karzai, World News
Allison Kilkenny

It appears as though the CIA is -- yet again -- employing the good ol' "The Enemy of My Enemy is The Guy Who Screws Me In The End" foreign policy doctrine.

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Moment of Truth In Afghanistan, Iran, Israel-Palestine, Southeast Asia, Africa, FSU

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Negotiation, Holocaust, Afghanistan, Afghan War, War, Sri Lanka, Violence, Iran, Eisenhower, South East Asia, Peace, Pbama, President, Religion, Mcchrystal, Military Industrial Complex, Burma, Africa, Former Soviet Union, Israel, Sustainable Communities, Realpolitik, Global Emergency, Nietzsche, World News
Stephen C. Rose

In all these situations, violence is active or incipient. In all of them, there is no solution being proposed that promises an end to the prospect of more of the same.

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What can Africa Hope for During Clinton Visit?

Todd Moss | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: Cape Verde, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Hillary Clinton Africa, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Realpolitik, Hillary Clinton, Liberia, Nigeria, South Africa, African Growth and Opportunity Act, Angola, World News
Todd Moss

Clinton, in choosing the largest economies and the continent's most influential capitals, is likely to highlight more traditional US economic and security interests than Obama did on his Ghana trip.

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Overcoming Pottery Barn Foreign Policy

Bob Burnett | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Bush Doctrine, Barack Obama, Obama Foreign Policy, Bush, Realpolitik, Obama, Bush Foreign Policy, Politics News
Bob Burnett

Bush viewed America as a fortress where barbarians were hammering at our gates; as the leader in a global crusade. But Obama sees the US as one of many powerful players in a complex world.

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Rumors Of The Next Cold War

Judah Freed | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Europe, Pakistan, Czechoslovakia, Balance of World Power, Hitler, Czarist Empire, Germany, Washington Post, Natural Gas, Saakashvili, Turkey, Communist Revolution, Czarist Russia, Russia Georgia War, Medvedev, Machiavelli, Tajikistan, Fall of the Soviet Empire, India, Trans-Caucasus Pipeline, The Washington Post, Russian Empire, Free Markets, Nazi Germany, Caspian Sea, World History, Oil Pipeline, Market Reforms, Napoleon, Azeri Chirag Gunashli Oil Fields, Putin, Iran, Kgb, Nato, 1917, Financial TImes, Balance of Power, Ukraine, Missile Defense Shield, Russia, Collapse of the Soviet Empire, Caucasus Mountains, World Power, Kazakhstan, Mikhail Saakashvili, Yeltsin, Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, Afghanistan, Mediterranean Sea, South Ossetia, Kremlin, Uzbekistan, Mt. Elbrus, Black Sea, France, Czar, Moscow, Georgia, Oil, Soviet Empire, New York Times, Realpolitik, Alexander Yeltsin, China. 1917 Communist Revolution, Cease-Fire, Baku, Shevardnadze, Turkmenistan, Ceyhan, Kygyzstan, Azerbaijan, Sudetenland, Tbilisi, Machiavellian, Balkan, Home News
Judah Freed

No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.

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By Any Means Necessary

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 06.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, White House, Al Gore, 3 a.M., Swiftboating, Chicago, November, John Corzine, Contributors, Bush, Willie Horton, 2008, Richard Nixon, Reverend Wright, Pat Buchanan, Joseph Welch, Florida, John McCain, Karl Rove, Joe Mccarthy, Michael Bloomberg, Texas, 2000, Presidency, Machiavelli, Boss Tweed, Decency, Lee Atwater, Ross Perot, Campaign Funds, Skullduggery, Moralist, Realpolitik, $270 Million, Lyndon Johnson, Steve Forbes, Bring Us Together," Howard Beale, Barack Obama, John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, "Landslide Lyndon, Hypocrite, Politics News
Jonathan Leigh Solomon

Barack Obama has gone back on his word, Barack Obama is a hypocrite ... I couldn't be happier. Truth is, if what's necessary to win in November is some outright cheating, I'd be all for that, too.

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